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Alaska: Web puts kibosh on print
Governor proposes that official notices be posted exclusively online
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State of the States: IT taking bigger role in classrooms
Nationwide efforts to bring schools into the Information Age are gaining momentum, with governors pledging to bring computers to more classrooms this year and to ensure that students and teachers know how to use them.
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State of the States: E-Gov takes center stage
Information technology took its place along side such political staples as crime
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Puerto Rico Web Site Clears Paperwork Hurdle
Puerto Rico's government World Wide Web site is up and running again, after a dispute with the State Election Commission shut down the site for the first three weeks of the year.
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Georgia Passes Hat to GIS Users
Turned away by the state legislature, Georgia is asking public and private organizations in the state to help fund a project to convert high-resolution aerial photographs into all-purpose geographic images.
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Iowa City Steps Up Web Strategy
After several years of taking part in a regional World Wide Web initiative, Iowa City, Iowa, this week will debut its own Web site.
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Coming to a PC Near You: Florida Town Meetings
Florida held its first 'Cyber Town Meeting' last month, using the World Wide Web to broadcast presentations by Gov. Jeb Bush and other state officials about the impact of information technology on the state.
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Telecom Firms Seed Broad Va. Market
MCI WorldCom and Sprint say they view VirginiaLink as an extension of their existing business with Virginia and that that relationship spurred them to participate. But they also say the program eventually could be a good commercial investment.
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Alaska Plans Statewide Telecom Program
Alaska, which spends more than $26 million annually on telecommunications products and services, plans to replace a hodgepodge of contracts with a single statewide telecom program.
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Small Town Goes High Tech
As technology evolves and people's expectations change, state and local government information technology managers are faced with a widening gap between their budgets and the systems, equipment and services they want to buy.
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Arkansas Governor Holds Internet Chat
Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who already spends an hour each month on radio and television answering questions from Arkansas citizens, took to the Internet Wednesday evening for his first live online chat session.
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New York Takes New Tack on PC Procurement
As part of a new statewide PC procurement, New York has decided to get out of the business of trying to maintain listings for constantly changing PC prices and technology.
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The Virtues of Thinking Big
The short history of the information technology industry is filled with big initiatives that fell short or fell flat. The most dramatic changes usually have been the product not of grand schemes but of serendipitous events that overtook the schemes and the schemers. But state officials at the Natio
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A Vote for Ingenuity
Information technology, historically, has focused on automation: using computersand human ingenuityto take the grunt work out of extensive calculations, document design and other daily labors. But technology also has become part of the life stream of our communities, creating a new class of skill
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State group pushes for broad information sharing
INDIANAPOLIS A national initiative to enable government criminal justice organizations to share information electronically eventually could lead to a national 'information architecture' available to agencies across all fields and at all levels of government, according to top state officials. The
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FAA pact to cut flight times, costs
The Federal Aviation Administration last week decided to forge ahead with a software tool that should reduce the cost and duration of crosscountry flights, providing a key ingredient of the FAA's vision of air traffic management in the 21st century. The User Request Evaluation Tool (URET) will giv
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Dell offers software/hardware bundles
Dell Computer Corp. announced last week that it now offers multiyear volume licensing agreements on Microsoft Corp. software bundled with Dell hardware. The government integration agreement (GIA) with Microsoft, available via Dell's General Services Administration schedule, allows an agency to set
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Dell unveils help-desk outsourcing program
Austin, Texas Dell Computer Corp. last week announced a new initiative that takes advantage of the Internet to resolve its customers' technical problems more quickly. OpenManage Resolution Assistant, the centerpiece of a program called Esupport, speeds up support services by enabling customers t
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Feds, states work on 'intelligent' portal sites
The Clinton administration is looking to build an intergovernmental World Wide Web portal through which the public can access information about a wide variety of government services available from federal and state government agencies.
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SAP looks to improve on recent successes
In the first year after setting up business in the public sector, SAP America Inc. has exceeded its original goals for the market and has set its sights on even more dramatic gains in the year ahead, according to Robert Salvucci, president of SAP America Public Sector and Education Inc., a subsidia
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