People
NTIS hiring freeze draws ire
The National Technical Information Service workforce is dwindling under a hiring freeze imposed by the Commerce Department, according to an advisory commission.
People
Where e-government and e-business compete
Employment services: The Labor Department runs America's Job Bank, which posts 1.5 million jobs for free. Private employment firms offer similar services.
People
The case for access
The Judicial Conference of the United States spells out alternatives for regulating access to legal records, both at court-houses and online. For example, the alternatives for civil case files
People
Blurring the lines
The very idea sent shudders through the fastgrowing field of electronic tax preparation earlier this year. A giant in the tax business was thinking of entering the industry the Internal Revenue Service.
Digital Government
Is Internet too public for court records?
Judicial Conference of the United States is calling for an indepth discussion of how much public access is too much
People
Election Day winner: Online voting
Voters in six states cast ballots over the Internet, and the procedure won overwhelming endorsements from voters and election officials
People
NTIS steamed over hiring freeze
The National Technical Information Service is dwindling under a hiring freeze imposed by the Commerce Department
People
Poll: Public hopes e-gov leads to accountability
State and local government officials see the Internet as a way to improve efficiency and save money, but a nationwide poll shows that the public sees it as a medium with the potential to make govern
People
Electronic records fight resumes
Public Citizen claims that agencies are failing to live up to promises they made to the U.S. Court of Appeals about electronic records
People
Veto shelves Archives' IT budget
NARA's modest request for information technology projects sailed through Congress, but it has been shelved temporarily by the president
People
Disabled workers left behind
Information technology has dramatically increased the productivity of the nation's workforce, but disabled people who might benefit most from technology have largely been left behind
People
Portal passes student exam
High school senior Adam Talleri, who used FirstGov for the first time to find information about college programs for studying in Japan and Asia, complimented the site's directory of topics.
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First reviews on FirstGov
With a deadline looming for her report on electronic commerce, Glynis Long of the Small Business Administration needed more details on what other federal agencies are doing in that fastgrowing sector of the economy.
People
Overcoming obstacles
'I don't see any disabilities being too difficult to accommodate,' said Ophelia Falls as she strolled among eight hightech workstations.
Digital Government
USPS seeks employee Web access
The U.S. Postal Service, which has called home computers and the Internet a threat to traditional mail, is proposing to supply its 800,000 employees with bargainpriced computers and free Internet service.
People
Online voting serves youth, poll finds
Survey on online voting raises intriguing questions about how an increase in voting by younger people might change the complexion of an election
People
USPS casts for employee Net access
The Postal Service is inviting computer vendors to bid for the right to sell USPS employees computers and operate a postal portal
People
Reno: IT, disabled can help workforce
Attorney General notes that it's sadly ironic that so many disabled people remain unemployed even as many high technology jobs go unfilled
People
An e-voting referendum
While millions of voters decide the futures of Al Gore and George W. Bush on Nov. 7, a relative handful of voters in Arizona, California and at military bases may decide the future of Internet voting
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