People

Government that goes with you

Now that citizens can file taxes and renew driver's licenses from the comfort of their home computers, it may seem as if e-government is almost within grasp.

People

How e-governments stack up

A snapshot of egovernment services offered around the world

Digital Government

Adobe to unveil Approval

New software will make PDF forms changeable

People

E-mail newsletters popular among pols

The Democrats are spreading their news on the Web, through handheld computers and now via email

Digital Government

E-signatures battle 'fear factor'

Agencies seem hesitant to trust esignatures on financial contracts or important legal agreements

People

USPS preps more e-commerce

Electronic money orders, Pay@Delivery service are ready, but so is competitors' stamp of disapproval

Digital Government

Archives aims test at Nixon tape

The infamous 18.5-minute gap on 'the Nixon tapes' continues to taunt historians

People

H-1B visa demand high

Faltering tech firms are laying off thousands of workers, but the demand for visas for foreign tech workers has not slackened significantly

Digital Government

Portals funding includes home-buying site

With at least 10 federal agencies owning homes, the federal government is the nation's largest landlord

Digital Government

Study: Tech is no voting cure-all

A task force says improved election procedures are more important than new, high-tech voting machines

People

Portals put help under one roof

Virtual Home Center is among the portals OK'd by the CIO Council's egovernment committee

Digital Government

Seeing red on cameras at lights

Some lawmakers decry their growing use

Digital Government

Cameras win public nod

Despite privacy and dueprocess concerns, a number of polls show Americans overwhelmingly support the use of redlight cameras

People

DOD widens assistive tech

Whether they work inside the Beltway, in Baltimore, Bahrain or Bangkok, federal employees with disabilities now can get the special computer hardware, software and other electronic technology

People

NIST scraps some paper forms

In eApproval, the agency is using electronic forms that can be approved with a digital signature

People

Paperless model

The Government Paperwork Elimination Act directs federal agencies to offer people the option of submitting information electronically as of Oct. 23, 2003

People

NIST scraps some paper

E-Approval project moves 220 forms to a Web-based system and digital signatures

Digital Government

FBI's key logger draws scrutiny

A federal judge ruled Aug. 7 that the FBI must explain how a monitoring device called a key logger system works

Digital Government

FBI's key logger under scrutiny

The FBI must explain to a judge how its keystroke monitoring system works

People

H-1B visa demand still high

Despite layoffs, INS says the demand for visas for foreign technology workers has not slackened significantly