National Information Consortium Inc. has won a five-year contract to build and manage an e-government portal for the state of Rhode Island, the company announced July 2.
State and local tax agencies are relying on integrators more than ever to help them collect revenue and provide new services to boost their images and strengthen their collection processes.
A growing number of high-tech companies are forming alliances and creating new business lines aimed at tapping into the potentially lucrative electronic voting marketplace.
The federal government exerts a tremendous influence over the business processes, daily operations and technology development within state and local government agencies.
A key House lawmaker is planning to introduce legislation that would require the government to use private-sector practices to improve the way agencies purchase information technology services.
Sens. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., and John McCain, R-Ariz., and Reps. Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., and Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif., introduced a "sense of the Congress" resolution May 10, promoting the spread of international electronic commerce.
It's going to take some tough love by state chief information officers to get their information technology systems and projects through the next few troubled years.
American Management Systems Inc. has hired Steve Kolodney, chief information officer for the state of Washington, to head up the company's e-government initiatives.
Canada's federal and provincial officials see the Internet as an important channel for service delivery, but their online services won't fulfill the nation's plan for seamless government, according to a report released April 17.
Electronic government initiatives are sweeping the nation, rapidly moving from the drawing board to implementation. In many respects, the focus of new online activity is centered on creating self-service applications to enable customers to complete entire transactions online.
Many systems integrators are abandoning the self-funding model for electronic procurement, and now are asking their state and local government customers either to split the funding costs or provide a financial guarantee on their investment, according to analysts and industry officials.
A wide variety of customer relationship management technologies are finding their way into the public sector as government officials discover the benefits of acquiring software solutions that promise better services, improved revenue and speedy contact with citizens.
Even the countries that top Accenture's ranking of electronic government capabilities still have a long way to go, according to the recently released study.
Even the countries that top Accenture's ranking of electronic government capabilities still have a long way to go, according to the recently released study.
Unisys Corp. is enhancing its portfolio of electronic government solutions for the public sector by offering a new portal server designed by Microsoft Corp., the company announced March 30.
Seeking to stake out a large chunk of territory in electronic government, Microsoft Corp.'s Chairman Bill Gates declared extensible markup language the language of government and Microsoft's .Net initiative as the best way to build e-gov applications.
New online services offered by government must be marketed to citizens in order to succeed, according to a new report from the Arlington, Va., PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government.
Oracle Corp. of Redwood Shores, Calif., has formed a partnership with J2C plc, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, to deliver an online marketplace for local government procurement.
Many U.S. governors have a hard road convincing their legislatures that Internet technology can transform government and vastly improve the way services are delivered to citizens.
