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Web Mining Public Debt
For the National Park Service, interactive doesn't necessarily mean talking to a park ranger, but the service oversees a pair of Web sites that offers up-to-date information on the nation's public parks.
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Student Aid
The Education Department has found the best way to encourage interaction with the public ? or at least with students ? is to offer money.
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DOD Opens Up
The other federal agency that faces seemingly infinite amounts of data is the Defense Department. Much of it is classified and kept tightly tucked away, but some of it is made public.
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A window to agency knowledge
Enterprise information portals are helping make government smarter
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GSA to put portals to work
With access to more than 1 million products ranging from paper clips to tractors, GSA Advantage is truly a shopper's delight. The downside is that this virtual shop can easily overwhelm its many users.
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Healthfinder
Probably the industry that government has the most voluminous amounts of data on is health care.
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10 that click
These sites offer unique services that show what digital government can provide.
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Bulgaria for the People
Proponents of digital government envision the Web providing a way for the public to directly interact with government employees. Visions of taxpayers submitting last-minute tax questions to an IRS agent are not too farfetched, online experts say.
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Housing Sites
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has also made e-commerce work for the agency.
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Governing by Hand
Little Devices With Big Potential Are Changing the Way Governments Operate
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E-government unplugged
The promise of anytime/anywhere instant communication has been bandied about for some time, but thanks to recent breakthroughs in wireless technology, that promise is on the verge of becoming reality, albeit a still flawed one.
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Cross-Talk
Would-be fishermen who walk into the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission for a license have been pleasantly surprised in recent months to find the lack of paperwork involved.
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Strength in Numbers
The Internet has long been billed as the great equalizer in business, whereby small microenterprises can go after customers and niche markets as well as any large corporation.
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The Long Arm of the Law
When a convict with a 10year history of abusing and stalking his exwife made parole in Scott County, Minn., last year, the only thing between him and his victim was an inconspicuous bracelet prison officials had attached to his ankle. He paid it no mind and headed straight for his exwife. But be
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On the Virtual Campaign Trail
Many political pundits believe that Jesse Ventura did for the Internet what John F. Kennedy did for TV almost 40 years earlier. In 1960, as he began his first presidential debate, Kennedy appeared the perfect picture of good health. The Massachusetts senator was battling to win one of the closestm
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Study into Web's Impact on State and Local Elections Goes Public
In an effort to gauge the impact of the World Wide Web on state and local elections, the Democracy Online Project has developed a new Web site, www.cityvote.org, that provides citizens a means to offer feedback on campaigns in nine U.S. cities and Northern Virginia.
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Smart Pay, SmarTrip
When it comes to metropolitan rail systems, the Washington, D.C., Metro ranks as a relative newcomer, having arrived on the Capitol City scene about 20 years ago. But that hasn't stopped it from grabbing the lead in the race with other urban areas to find better and faster ways to move passengers t
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Identity Theft
They could have been anybody's grandparents: a sweet couple in their 70s happily enjoying their golden years. Instead, this retired Air Force officer and his wife spent at least part of 1999 sitting in front of the Maryland legislature, testifying about a crime so traumatic that they refused to pro
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