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Government should make information easier to get, lobbyists say
New federal e-government laws don’t go far enough to codify and protect the public’s access to government information, two information industry lobbyists said at the InfoToday 2003 conference.<br>
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Group works on e-forms standards
A new team of government and industry officials will spend the next five months evaluating standards for electronic forms, a CIO Council member said yesterday.<@SM>
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GAO ruling puts Recruitment One-Stop in limbo
The Recruitment One-Stop project hit e-government purgatory after the General Accounting Office sustained a protest of the $62 million contract to revamp the usajobs.opm.gov site.<@SM>
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OMB will spend $500,000 on the next wave of e-gov
The Office of Management and Budget will allocate $500,000 of its $5 million e-government fund to hire a contractor to assess cross-agency collaboration and consolidation in six government lines of business.<br>
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Bell tolls for state e-gov department
Wisconsin’s legislature this week gave preliminary approval to Gov. Jim Doyle’s proposal to close down the state’s 2-year-old Electronic Government Department. <br>
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Michigan will require some to e-file income taxes
Michigan is joining two nearby states in requiring corporations and professional tax preparers with large numbers of customers to file income tax returns electronically.<br>
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GAO defines enterprise architecture benchmarks
Responding to agency requests, the General Accounting Office has updated its guide on enterprise architectures with expanded metrics to measure how well an agency succeeds in implementation.<br><@SM>
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Georgia portal was ready for IRS link
When the Small Business Administration went looking for a state partner to roll out a piece of its Business Compliance One-Stop e-government project, Georgia happened to be at the right place at the right time.
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OMB’s McVay leaving for the private sector
William McVay, the deputy branch chief in OMB's Office of Information and Policy, is leaving government next month to take a position with DigitalNet Inc. of Herndon, Va.<br><@SM>
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Homeland Security will accept electronic signatures
The Homeland Security Department’s Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement today issued an interim final rule clearing the way for applicants to submit electronic signatures on immigration benefit documents.<br><@SM>
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Homeland Security to take immigration filings online
Beginning May 29, the Homeland Security Department will accept some immigration filings online. <br>
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For summer, OMB puts agencies on a business case diet
The Office of Management and Budget is asking agencies to slim down the volume of material they submit with their annual IT budget proposals.<br><@SM>
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Interagency team studies geospatial preparedness
An interagency team is developing a comprehensive national strategy for delivering geospatial data to emergency responders.<@SM>
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Davis will reintroduce a services buying bill
Rep. Tom Davis expects that his Services Acquisition Reform Act will succeed in its second outing on Capitol Hill.<br>
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Maryland adds e-gov features to its Medicaid system
Maryland’s Health and Mental Hygiene Department went live last week with an eMedicaid system to streamline the Medicaid process.<br>
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GAO will study Clinger-Cohen compliance
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will review agency progress in implementing laws related to IT. <br>
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OMB’s E-Strategy report signals start of <br>E-Government Act of 2002
Mark Forman today officially became the administrator for the Office of E-Government and IT within the Office of Management and Budget. <br>
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IRS boasts gains from Free File, PC filing
The IRS said its online Free File initiative “surpassed expectations,” with more than 2.4 million taxpayers using the free service available through a consortium of preparers.<br>
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New privacy threat index mimics terrorism alert levels
The Electronic Privacy Information Center today unveiled a Privacy Threat Index to track what it sees as a growing menace to privacy from the government’s expanding surveillance efforts. <br>
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E-gov is easier, but citizens worry about security
Citizens say e-government makes their lives easier, but at the same time it raises concerns about data security and privacy. That’s the finding of a study from the Council for Excellence in Government. <br>
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