Digital Government

PTI announces Technology Leadership Awards

Tech managers from San Carlos, Calif., Des Monies, Iowa, and Sarasota County, Fla., will meet in Denver in April to receive Public Technology Inc.'s 1999 Technology Leadership Award

Digital Government

Oregon governor appoints Internet panel

Gov. John Kitzhaber charges commission with reviewing the state's online profile and position in the digital economy

Digital Government

Local politics have new home on Web

Grassroots.com promotes the role of "two-click activism" in local elections and causes

Digital Government

NIH modernizes employee time and attendance system

New system will streamline administrative tasks by converting the time and attendance process to a paperless system

Digital Government

Washington, D.C., DMV offers online registration renewals

A new system allows D.C. motorists to renew their vehicle registrations from any computer with an Internet connection and pay the required fees online by credit card

Digital Government

South Carolina GOP election results will be available online

The South Carolina Republican Party has partnered with Voter.com to provide results from the upcoming presidential primary in real-time on the Internet

Digital Government

HHS budgeted for healthy information systems

The agency's proposed plan for 2001 includes money to develop data standards and to strengthen the security measures used in transferring that information

Digital Government

South Carolina has eye on a chief technology officer

Governor proposes the position to coordinate the state's disjointed technology efforts

Digital Government

Washington county meets 'Melissa'

Virus that plagued nation last year shuts down government e-mail system last week

Digital Government

MIT seeking government nominees for eCitizen Service Awards

MIT's School of Agriculture and Planning has partnered with Andersen Consulting and invited federal, state and local governments to submit their best-existing Web-enabled citizen services program for awards to be presented at a summer conference in Washington, D.C.

Digital Government

New exchange point will speed New England Net access

Boston mayor Thomas Menino recently announced the opening of the city's Metropolitan Exchange Point, which will offer faster Internet service to all New England residents and businesses

Digital Government

Hennepin County, Minn., Sheriff's Department to use mobile identification tools

The ability to capture fingerprints and match then at a crime scene will soon be possible for the sheriff's department in Hennepin County, Minn.

Digital Government

NGA report: Telecom taxes 'burdensome'

Gov. Leavitt proposes a 'radical simplification' of state and local taxes

Digital Government

Electronically filing taxes made 'comfort-able' for Texas town

Microsoft chooses small town to try out its new software for filing personal income taxes

Digital Government

Iowa working on statewide distance learning

The state's Office of Information Technology Services recently developed two requests for information for the creation of a system to allow people to learn from home

Digital Government

Pennsylvania puts state manual online for first time

The first-ever electronic version of "The Pennsylvania Manual" can be accessed for free through the state's Web site

Digital Government

New Jersey Office of IT creates customer relationship management unit

The idea is to provide state agencies with the technological know-how to meet customers' needs

Digital Government

Clinton budget bolsters IT in the classroom

Fiscal 2001 budget proposal aims to eliminate the digital divide between the high-tech haves and have-nots and also targets a broad range of educational programs and teacher training

Digital Government

Nampa, Idaho, Revamps Finance System

Nampa, Idaho, recently selected Systems Consultants Inc. to provide a financial and management software solution, including revamping the payroll/human services and utility management processes.

Digital Government

Madison, Wis., School District Saves $25K with Free Internet Filtering

Madison, Wis., is the largest school district in the nation to sign up for free Internet filtering through Phoenix-based Dotsafe Inc., in a move that will save the district more than $25,000 per year.