Digital Government
Is a vote selling Web site parody or threat?
Wicked political satire, or just wicked? A Web site, Voteauction.com, is generating grins and chagrin with its brazen offer to buy and sell votes via the Internet.
Digital Government
Another go at Nixon tapes
For nearly 30 years, historians and audio experts have believed that nothing remains of the taperecorded conversation that once filled the infamous 18.5minute gap on President Nixon's White House tapes.
People
The outsourcing wave rolls on
If predictions by industry and government studies are correct, more federal information technology jobs will be turned over to the private sector in coming years. The only question is whether the numbers will be modest or mammoth.
Digital Government
Drive IT with dollars, not dictates
A presidential advisory committee is calling for a beneficent IT banker instead of a controlling 'czar'
People
FirstGov turns on the juice
A day ahead of the threemonth schedule President Clinton set for launching a governmentwide Internet portal, FirstGov flickered to life today
Digital Government
E-business shortchanges USPS
Businesses and the federal government are relying increasingly on electronic transactions, and it's devastating the U.S. Postal Service
People
Lawmakers press for fed CIO czar
It's time to put an IT expert in charge of the government's information technology, according to members of a House government reform subcommittee technology leadership by a lawyer has yielded woeful results.
People
O Canada's e-prowess
While U.S. federal online efforts remain in the formative stage, about half the transactions between Canadians and their government now can be performed online.
People
The end of government as we know it
If all it does is make possible instantaneous searches of the 40 million pages the federal government has posted on the Internet, FirstGov would be a useful tool and a rather remarkable achievement.
People
FirstGov Facts
The compilers of the FirstGov database discovered that the federal government has posted about 40 million pages on the Internet.
People
Congress, Katzen in CIO showdown
Members of a House subcommittee made it clear Tuesday they want an IT czar; they're fed up with the IT queen.
People
Fraud casts pall over Internet voting
The convenience of Internet voting seems to hold great promise, but the potential for fraud is likely to delay voting via home computers for years to come
People
FirstGov portal fine-tuned
The governmentwide Web portal is being tested and finetuned this week in preparation for public use later this month, GSA said
Digital Government
IT workforce counting on contractors
By 2005, the federal government will be spending $40.3 billion per year on IT services and systems, a market research firm projects
People
Can the Net revive the vote?
In Arizona in the spring of 1996, encountering a voting Democrat was about as likely as finding a snowball in the desert.
People
Ex-deputy CIO fined $30K
Mark Boster developed a reputation as an intimidating manager when he was deputy chief information officer at the Justice Department. Now, as a businessman, Boster is paying a $30,000 fine for what Justice officials charge was using intimidation to try to continue influencing decisions at the department.
People
Take it slow
The California Internet Voting Task Force advises 'evolutionary rather than revolutionary change' when it comes to casting ballots online.
People
'Freewheeling' states jumping into e-gov
Under pressure to provide better government services, states and municipalities are jumping into e-government faster than their better- financed big brother, the federal government, according to a survey of 37 states and 60 federal agencies.
People
The accessibility fix is in
There are 27 million federal government pages on the Internet, and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act says they must be accessible to people with disabilities by next spring or the agencies that posted them may be sued.
Digital Government
Teachers can job shop at new site
Launched just days ago, a teacher recruiting site wants to serve as the Internet place to lead teachers to teaching jobs nationwide
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