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New Federal EC Bills Touch State Efforts

The House of Representatives has taken up two new pieces of digital signature legislation with implications at the state level.

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FEMA Disaster-Prediction Software Expands

FEMA Disaster Prediction Software Expands

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States Will Follow Feds in Y2K Fix

States Will Follow Feds in Y2K Fix

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New Offerings From Netscape and Microsoft

Government agencies looking to standardize on a common browser have two primary platforms from which to choose: Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer or Netscape Communications Corp.'s Communicator

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3-D GIS System Throws Public Discourse in Relief

A few months ago Jason Kornoff was in a tough spot facing a room of citizens attending a public meeting about groundwater contamination in their east Los Angeles community.

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Kentucky Child Welfare Gets a Twist

Just a few years ago Kentucky's child welfare system was mired in paper. Program data was stored in voluminous folders finding the right file often depended on a case worker's longtime personal knowledge of the community.

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Police Get Back on the Beat With 'COPS MORE' Funding

The Clinton administration's plan to put 100,000 additional police officers on U.S. streets by 2000 is generating some healthy technology funding opportunities for local law enforcement agencies

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New Technology and Business in the Civic Sector

Digital Imager of U.S. Cities Available on Internet I nexpensive accurate computerized imagery of your city can now be ordered over the Internet. Image Scans Inc. and Vexcel Corporation Inc. two Coloradobased software and imaging companies have released City Scenes

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Project Management for the People

'Plans are useless' Dwight Eisenhower once observed of making preparations for battle 'but planning is indispensable.'

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Oregon's Consumer Affairs Site Provides Vital Link to Business Services

Conventional wisdom holds that state agencies venturing onto the Internet should start small and stay practical with one or two key applications that are sure to win public approval.

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New Technology and Business in the Civic Sector

New GIS Software Increases Ease and Accuracy of Property Maps The geographic information system (GIS) software industry is becoming increasingly specialized toward the needs of state and local government users.

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Groupware Speeds Emergency Measures

It's an old joke: What are the four seasons in California? Fires floods earthquakes and mud slides.

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The Sweetest Suites

Once upon a time an office suite was just a bunch of applications thrown into a box and tagged with a discounted price.

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Bridging the Gap Between Citizens and City Decision-Makers

During a computer simulated drive over a new design for San Francisco's Bay Bridge, elected city officials gasped as they accelerated over an incline into a panoramic view ofblue sky.

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Healthy Technology Options for State and Local Health Care Agencies

Laura Larsson gave up hope long ago that the public health nutritionists she helps train would get access anytime soon to the technology necessary to mine the wealth of health information now on the Internet. '

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Illinois Comptroller: How to Turn Around an Administrative System on the Brink of Crisis

When Illinois Comptroller Loleta Didrickson entered office two years ago she faced a situation about to implode. Not a fiscal one but a deadend computer platform and archaic accounting procedures that threatened to stymie management of the state's $35 billion budget.

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Hawaii's Campaign Spending Site Gets the Vote

Even as the campaign spending hearings in Washington highlight abuses and prompt calls for reform the state of Hawaii has found a way to let the average citizen see where the money is coming from and where it is going.