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House to sweep floor with XML
The House of Representatives this week released drafts of 110 Extensible Markup Language document type definitions for all its legislative activities. The DTDs are in the public domain and cover categories ranging from bills and resolutions to deletions and anomalous document structures.
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Treasury’s FMS cashes in on Pay.gov portal
In less than a year since launching its Pay.gov portal, the Treasury Department’s Financial Management Service has collected $1 billion in fees, fines, leases, taxes and other electronic payments from citizens and businesses through the site.
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CIO Council puts $1.2m toward portals
The Chief Information Officers Council's electronic-government committee has approved $1.2 million to fund eight cross-agency Web portals.
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Treasury contracts operation gets a new name
FBA East, a Treasury Department franchise fund operation, today changed its name to GoTo.Gov and launched information technology and consulting services.<@SM>
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Copyright Office sets sights on paper-free registrations
The Library of Congress’ Copyright Office now handles about 5 percent of its workflow entirely online. No paper is involved except for the final copyright certificate mailed for legal reasons, and even that soon will become optional.
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EPA takes a people approach to e-gov
Many electronic-government efforts attempt to fulfill the “for the people” and “of the people” parts of democracy. The Environmental Protection Agency this month took a crack at “by the people.”
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Citizen communication will nourish e-gov, panel says
The next step in electronic government will be to transfor it into an "e-democracy," in which the public uses the Web to get direct access to the government, Mark Forman this month told the Council for Excellence in Goverment.
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OMB balks at e-gov bill
The deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget is making it clear who he thinks is in charge of fulfilling the vision of a paperless government: himself.
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AFFIRM-GCN roundtable transcript (PDF file)
The Association for Federal IRM and Government Computer News recently conducted a roundtable to explore the status of electronic government and where agencies need to go next for e-government transformation. The discussion, moderated by GCN editorial director Thomas R. Temin, took place at the City Club in Washington. The participants are identified in the opening paragraphs of the transcript that follows. Also attending were AFFIRM members Robert Golas of Oracle Corp. and Michael Lisagor of Celerity Works of Vienna, Va.
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Despite site’s popularity, IRS begins revamp
For the first time since the IRS made its debut on the Internet in December 1995, the agency is giving its Web site a makeover.
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E-gov myths persist, report says
In the rush to cross the digital divide, federal and state governments still have major misconceptions about how to get the job done, a new study concludes.
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Nations eager to join e-gov fraternity
Other nations are greatly increasing their spending on information technology, a panel of executives said last month at the Information Technology Association of America’s management conference.
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What’s e-government? How do we do it?
The Association for Federal IRM and Government Computer News recently conducted a roundtable to explore the status of electronic government and where agencies need to go next for e-government transformation.
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Office launches beta Web site for copyright queries
The Library of Congress’ Copyright Office has launched a beta Web version of its copyright search function.
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Key IRS projects at risk, GAO warns
JULY 3—IRS systems modernization projects are at risk for cost overruns, delays and performance shortfalls because the agency lacks a sufficiently defined enterprise architecture to guide and constrain them, the General Accounting Office said.
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SSA Web site offers multilingual access to information
JULY 2—The Social Security Administration recently introduced its Multi-Language Gateway Web page to provide information on its services to users who don’t speak English.
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FirstGov adds access to 50 states, D.C.
NEW ORLEANS—The General Services Administration last week relaunched its FirstGov portal with the added capability for searching and linking to 16 million pages from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.<@SM>
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New e-gov chief is not governmentwide CIO
Mark Forman will head up federal electronic-government efforts, oversee the e-government fund proposed by President Bush and direct the Chief Information Officers Council. Just don’t call him the federal CIO.
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IRS will expand e-filing availability
The IRS will make electronic filing available to 99.1 percent of all taxpayers next year.
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