Digital Government

Industry group touts tech education

The AeA has put education at the top of the public policy priorities it is sending to the White House and Capitol Hill

People

Senate hearings span the globe

C-SPAN is starting a Webcast service of most Senate committee hearings

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Postal network may hold profit

Finding commercial uses for USPS' communications network is part of the outgoing postmaster general's strategy

Digital Government

Postmaster general on way out

Postmaster General William Henderson plans to step down in May

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Feds push to close accessibility loophole

The 'micropurchase exemption' to the new federal accessibility standards is likely to be phased out

Digital Government

NPR hits end of the road

'Reinvention' delivered uneven results

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No weak links for FirstGov

'Each day we are adding new sites and new services'

Digital Government

USPS unveils certified e-mail

USPS began a new service Jan. 16 that makes it possible to transmit secure personal information to federal agencies

Digital Government

Postal Service forecast grim

Efforts to use technology to improve Postal Service productivity have yielded disappointing results thus far

People

Whither go the CIOs?

The door is revolving, but it is uncertain how many chief information officers will come out.

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State needs to shore up security

The State Department needs to improve security, from installing intrusiondetection programs to clarifying agencywide security responsibilities

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Maintaining a sense of history

Agencies told to preserve Clinton-era Web sites for posterity

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Web snapshots "prudent," Katzen says

OMB official says that some agencies have posted information that the Bush administration 'may or may not be comfortable with'

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Webmasters flinch at "snapshots"

Federal Webmasters are reacting with dismay to NARA's instructions to take 'snapshots' of all agency public Web pages by Jan. 20

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USPS launches certified e-mail

The U.S. Postal Service rolled out a new service, NetPost.Certified, which secures data sent to federal agencies

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Archives asks for Web freeze frames

NARA is asking all federal agencies to take a 'snapshot' of their public Web sites as they exist on or before Inauguration Day

People

FirstGov fine-tunes offerings

Online transactions, expanded links, refined search engine enhance governmentwide Internet portal

Digital Government

Political news sites get users' vote

Web users flocked to political sites during the 2000 campaign season, but news sites, not candidate sites, attracted the most attention

Digital Government

Archives counts on microfilm

The high cost of keeping digital census records readable for the next seven decades is prompting the Archives to convert them to microfilm

People

Access Board standards out

June 21 is deadline for agencies to comply