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Commerce Department Secretary William Daley announces a digital divide summit
Commerce Department Secretary William Daley announced on Monday that a digital divide summit will be held on Dec. 9, featuring participants from the federal government, the technology industry, the civil rights and nonprofit communities, grassroots organizations and the general public.
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Virginia moves toward digital signatures for government business
The Virginia Council on Technology Services (COTS) moved closer last week to embracing the use of digital signatures for government business.
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Set-Asides
FAR change hurtful, some say A proposed regulation that aims to protect the government from unreliable contractors is too vague and would hurt small businesses, senior government leaders told Congress last month. The proposed rule, issued by the Office of Management and Budget on July 9, would amen
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USDA announces rural tech grants
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman last week announced the USDA Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Awards, with four each going to Alaska, Alabama and Texas, while California garnered funds for three institutions.
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Industry Watch
Northrop wins JSTARS pact Northrop Grumman Corp. last month won a $199 million contract from the Air Force for 10 retrofit kits under the Computer Replacement Program for Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft. The program will replace and upgrade servers, operator workstations, sel
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Federal Bytes
NOT TOO INVENTIVE. During the opening debate of the 2000 presidential campaign season, Vice President Al Gore was asked what he thought was the biggest mistake of his political career. His reply certainly wasn't debatable. 'If I was going to pick one right off the bat,' Gore replied, 'I would say t
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Officials tackle technology in procurement
Don Upson, Virginia's secretary of technology and Dick Thompson, the director of Maine's division of purchases, shared their views on the status and future of technology in state government procurement at last week's Fall Procurement Conference sponsored by the Coalition for Government Procurement.
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Pay now or pay later
The gap in pay between federal information technology workers and their privatesector counterparts has been a problem federal IT managers have tried to solve for years and one that has the potential of derailing the vision of a truly digital government. That's why it is disconcerting that the A
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Firm offering free filtering services
A Fort Lauderdale, Fla.based Internet company, this.com, is offering free filtering services to all schools throughout the U.S., with a special focus on narrowing the digital divide by targeting innercity and underprivileged school children.
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Bloomington, Ind., Webcasting Candidate Forums
With election day approaching, voters in Bloomington, Ind., have a chance to meet candidates for city offices without leaving home and not because the political hopefuls are going doortodoor.
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N.C. putting e-services on fast track
North Carolina aims to puts its agencies on a fast track to deliver Internetbased services by developing a multipronged strategy the incorporates security, World Wide Web portals and other key components of electronic commerce on a statewide basis.
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Schools at Y2K risk in new year
An Education Department survey released Wednesday revealed that thousands of schools nationwide may not open on time next year unless significant progress is made in fixing computer systems and developing contingency plans for the Year 2000 problem.
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San Diego County Approves Outsourcing Contract
In an effort to create a virtual government, San Diego County will invest $644 million during seven years to revamp the county's computer and telephone systems, one of the largest technology spending plans to date by a local government.
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National 'Information Architecture' Grows Out of Criminal Justice Network
A national initiative to develop a way for government criminal justice organizations to share information electronically eventually could lead to a national information architecture available to agencies across all fields and at all levels of government, according to top state officials.
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Law enforcement tech funding OK'd
The House and Senate last week approved $250 million in funding for law enforcement technology as part of the $39 billion fiscal 2000 appropriations bill that funds the departments of Commerce, Justice and State.
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New Online Seminar Series for GIS Professionals Kicks Off Nov. 9
GeonetCom, a free online seminar series targeting professionals in government, telecommunications and utilities who are interested in learning more about geographic information systems (GIS) will hold its first session Nov. 9.
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Illinois Awards $75 Million Contract for Telecommunications Relay Service
The Illinois Telecommunications Access Corp. (ITAC), on behalf of the 75 localexchange carriers in the state, awarded a contract worth up to $75 million to Sprint for a telecommunications relay service (TRS) that will support Illinois' deaf, hardofhearing, deaf and blind, and speechdisabled consumers.
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Women Executives in State Government Selects IT Committee
Women Executives in State Government, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of cabinetlevel state government executives from across the country, recently named New Jersey chief information officer Wendy Raymer as the organization's chairwoman.
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Illinois Attorney General Files Suit Against Four Online Pharmacies
Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan last week filed lawsuits against four outofstate Internet companies for selling prescription drugs online without proper licensing, making the Illinois the third state, following Kansas and Missouri, to file lawsuits against online pharmacies.
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