People
Virginia Holds Second Technology Symposium
Virginia technology secretary Donald Upson and health and human services secretary Claude Allen on Tuesday hosted "Technology as a Tool to Empower Individuals and Communities," the second of four citizen advisory symposiums designed to help bridge the "digital divide" between those with and without access to technology.
Digital Government
Education Unveils STaR Chart to Help Teachers Use Technology
U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley and corporate leaders this week released a chart to help the educational community ensure that all new teachers have the technology skills needed to manage a classroom in the digital age.
People
Massachusetts to Monitor Employees' Net Use
Massachusetts recently contracted with a company to provide agencies with the technology to monitor the Internet use of its employees.
People
California Motorists to Register Vehicles Online
California residents soon will be able to register their vehicles online with the Department of Motor Vehicles, said Gov. Gray Davis last week in his State of the State address.
People
Companies Unveil E-Mall
Loislaw.com, an Internet provider of primary legal research, recently expanded its offering to include case law and statutes databases from five more states, now including a total of 45 states and Washington, D.C.
People
San Diego County Unveils Child Abduction Web Site
In an effort to fight child abductions, the San Diego County, Calif., district attorney's office has launched a World Wide Web site that includes photos and other information on missing children from the office's longest-running cases.
Digital Government
Arizona Democrats to Hold First Binding Internet Vote
The Arizona Democratic Party plans to allow its members to vote online in the March 11 presidential primary, the first time Internet votes will officially count in a public office election.
People
Online Legal Research Firm Expands Coverage to 45 States
Loislaw.com, an Internet provider of primary legal research, recently expanded its offering to include case law and statutes databases from five more states, now including a total of 45 states and Washington, D.C.
People
Maryland Cuts Red Tape from Justice Spending
Maryland's state and local crime fighters recently found themselves in an enviable predicament. They had the money to invest in technology, but they just weren't sure how to spend it well.
People
San Carlos, Calif., Puts Narrated Presentations on the Web
San Carlos, Calif., last week announced that it had teamed with Presenter.com to put two narrated presentations ? one for small business and the other for the general public ? on the city's World Wide Web site.
Digital Government
Texas County Opening Tech-Savvy Justice Center
Harris County, Texas, will open its Criminal Justice Center building on Jan. 10 with a high-speed Gigabit Ethernet and Asynchronous Transfer Mode network that will serve the more than 12,000 users of the county's criminal justice courts and supporting services.
Digital Government
Pennsylvania DOT Cancels Contract With Information Services Provider
Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation on Thursday canceled its contract with ChoicePoint Services Inc., on evidence that the company ignored rules regarding the privacy of driver records.
Digital Government
Commerce Grants to Ease 'Digital Divide'
U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary William Daley announced Wednesday that about $12.5 million in grants will be awarded this year to help close the gap between Americans with and without access to new technologies.
Digital Government
GOP in Alaska and S.C. Select Online Campaign Host
The Republican state parties in Alaska and South Carolina have selected the Votenet.com suite of products from Netivation.com to be the backbone of their online campaign World Wide Web presences.
Digital Government
HUD Neighborhood Networks Now in 50 States
With recent openings in Montana and South Dakota, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that HUD?s Neighborhood Networks computer centers are now serving low-income residents in every state.
Digital Government
SSA ready for Year 2000
The Social Security Administration's 10year, $48 million Year 2000 remediation effort soon will be tested, and the agency's commissioner said Tuesday the agency has been ready for a while.
Digital Government
Industry profile: Keydata delivers
When the Food and Drug Administration announced that it needed 600 preconfigured notebooks with portable scanners and printers delivered to field investigators in five regions across the country by the end of November, a small Virginiabased firm jumped into action.
Acquisition
AMS, Ariba team for e-procurement
In what may be the first of many deals like it, integrator American Management Systems Inc. and Internet commerce vendor Ariba Inc. have teamed up to provide a complete electronic procurement solution to federal government users.
Digital Government
SSA offers harassment awareness training online
The Social Security Administration has awarded a threeyear contract to Enterprise Training Solutions (ETS) to supply intranetbased sexual harassment awareness training to all of the agency's 65,000 employees.
Digital Government
HHS Completes Y2K Testing for State Medicaid Systems
The Department of Health and Human Services last week gave all Medicaid data exchanges among federal, state and financial institution systems a clean bill of health for the Year 2000 date change.
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