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  • USA: www.Virginia.gov Launches Business Support Portal

    Businesses seeking information and services from the Commonwealth of Virginia now have a new centralized starting point. The new online portal (www.business.virginia.gov) is available through the state's official Web site and consolidates information about Virginia's various business assistance and support services such as grants, loans, workforce training, and licensing in one online location.

    "This portal employs user-friendly technology to provide a single gateway to the many services Virginia offers businesses throughout state government," said Governor Mark R. Warner. "This new site provides immediate access to information and further enhances Virginia's business-friendly environment."

  • USA: Wyoming Seeks Expansion of Telehealth Within, Outside State

    A new law in Wyoming gives the state's rural health office the authority to work with other states and organizations to expand use of telemedicine, the Casper Star Tribune reports.

    According to Rex Gantenbein, director of the Center for Rural Health Research and Education at the University of Wyoming, increased funding for and interest in telemedicine have resulted in most of the state's hospitals having some telehealth capacity.

  • USA: Wyoming to Move State Employees to Google Apps

    Google landed a jab Wednesday, Oct. 27, in its ongoing competition with Microsoft for supremacy in the state and local government market. Wyoming will migrate the state government’s 10,000 employees to the Google Apps for Government productivity suite within a year, officials said.

    Wyoming will become the first state to adopt Google Apps enterprisewide, the company said. Google Apps for Government includes the tools available in the consumer version — e-mail, documents, sites, calendar and video — and also adds on Federal Information Security Management Act certification, disaster recovery, and the customer’s data is located in U.S.-based servers.

  • USA: Wyoming: Casper: Poll backs basic city services

    The city of Casper released polling results that suggests strong support for basic services paid for by the countywide optional 1-cent sales tax.

    The unscientific surveys don’t ask if the respondents support the tax — only how they would spend the money if given the choice.

    People at three different events were given the opportunity to rate the importance of different 1-cent spending areas. The results were calculated by adding all the scores for each category.

  • USA: Wyoming: Coordinating telehealth

    Virtual medicine expands across Wyoming as it bridges the state's gaps in care.

    Virtual medicine is changing the way physicians treat patients in Wyoming.

    The expansion of telehealth also offers new opportunities to bridge the state's gaps in care. Patients who must leave rural communities to see a specialist will soon be able to find this expertise at home.

  • USA: Wyoming: Telehealth looks to expand

    Officials say virtual medicine right fit for rural state

    Virtual medicine is changing the way physicians treat patients in Wyoming.

    The expansion of telehealth also offers new opportunities to bridge the state's gaps in care. Patients who must leave rural communities to see a specialist will soon be able to find this expertise at home.

    Today, 24 of Wyoming's 26 hospitals are outfitted with videoconferencing equipment, Dr. James Bush, chairman of the Wyoming Telehealth Consortium and Medicaid director for the Wyoming Department of Health, said.

  • USA: Wyoming: Washakie County seeks grant for telehealth clinic

    Washakie County is seeking a grant to help remodel a county-owned building to establish a telehealth outreach clinic.

    The county is applying to the State Loan and Investment Board for a federal mineral royalty capital construction account grant to help establish the Worland VA Primary Care Telehealthcare Outreach Clinic and the Worland Crisis Stabilization Center.

  • USA: Yankee Group Reports Vendors Vying for Federal Government IT Contracts Face

    A new Yankee Group report, "The Yankee Group Evaluates Federal IT Spending Opportunities," says the federal government's spending on technology is a hot spot when compared to the growth of private sector IT spending. However, while federal budgets are expanding to support cross-agency IT initiatives, the expansion of technology at the federal level is more hype than reality.

  • USA: Zahlreiche Pannen wegen Einsatz elektronischer Wahlmaschinen

    Die diesjährigen Präsidentschaftswahlen in den USA sind kaum gelaufen, und schon häufen sich die Berichte über Unregelmäßigkeiten durch die Verwendung von E-Voting-Machines. In einem Wahlkreis in der Nähe von Ohios Hauptstadt Columbus beispielsweise sollen nahezu 4000 Stimmen dem Gewinner George W. Bush zugerechnet worden sein, obwohl lediglich 638 Wähler ihre Stimme abgaben. In North Carolina gingen mehr als 4500 Stimmen verloren, weil Wahlhelfer die Speicherkapazität eines Computers falsch eingeschätzt hatten.

  • USA: Zehn Millionen USD für stadtweites WLAN in Philadelphia

    Philadelphia will 350 Quadratkilometer mit WLAN überziehen | Hotspots sollen in Lampenmasten eingebaut werden | Gratiszugang für alle

    Die Verwaltung der US-Stadt Philadelphia will allen Bürgern kostenfreies oder zumindest günstiges WLAN offerieren.

  • USA: Zentrale Beschaffung für die innere Sicherheit

    Das US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will seinen Beschaffungsprozess für IT-Services in einem groß angelegten Rahmenprogramm zusammenfassen. Die unter dem Dach des "Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge", kurz "Eagle", geschlossenen und verwalteteten Verträge werden in den kommenden zehn Jahren voraussichtlich einen Gesamtwert von 45 Milliarden Dollar repräsentieren. Für das am 1. Oktober begonnene Fiskaljahr 2006 stehen nach Insider-Schätzungen jedenfalls 4,5 Milliarden Dollar zur Verfügung.

  • USA: Zentrale Datenbank für alle Polizeibehörden

    Die Polizeibehörden der USA bauen zur Bekämpfung von Kriminalität und Terrorismus eine umfassende nationale Datenbank auf. In der National Data Exchange oder N-DEx genannten Datenbank sollen erstmals, wie die Washington Post berichtet, alle vorhandenen Daten an einem Ort verfügbar sein, was trotz vieler Bemühungen nach dem 11. September 2001 und mancher Projekte, die Daten der unterschiedlichen Behörden zusammenzuführen, bislang noch nicht der Fall ist.

  • USA:Beat the Oct.10 Personal Property Tax Deadline with Easy Online Payments in 26 Arkansas Counties

    Paying personal property and real estate taxes is easier than ever, thanks to an online service available to residents of 26 Arkansas counties. Working in conjunction with county tax collectors, the official state Web site (www.Arkansas.gov) offers citizens the ability to pay personal property and real estate tax payments online.

    Counties offering secure online Web payments with a credit card (MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover) or electronic check are: Carroll, Clark, Cleburne, Columbia, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Dallas, Faulkner, Grant, Howard, Independence, Jefferson, Johnson, Lafayette, Lawrence, Little River, Ouachita, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Sebastian, Van Buren, Washington, and White Counties.

  • USA:Better with age-PBGC taps maturing Webservices for online filing application

    Timing is everything. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s recent experience underscores that notion. The congressionally chartered agency known as PBGC insures 31,000 private pension plans covering more than 40 million workers and retirees. Its services are funded through premium payments. But plan administrators told PBGC officials that they would rather make payments and file paperwork online.

  • USA:Boston Launches a Mobile Version of its Website to Align With Various Ways People Access the Web

    Consider briefly the number of devices that can access the Web -- cell phones, smartphones, computers, laptops, tablets, game consoles. Now imagine trying to build a website that functions well across all these platforms. The city of Boston did in recently launching a mobile version of www.cityofboston.gov to try to bridge the digital device divide.

    As mobile devices evolve, some might wonder whether building a mobile version of a website still makes sense. Boston CIO Bill Oates and Raj Pareek, the city's manager of e-government initiatives, believe it does. They built an inexpensive mobile site they believe will put the city in a better position to communicate with citizens now and in the future.

  • USA:Citizen satisfaction with government Web sites stalls

    Citizen satisfaction with government Web sites dropped slightly for the first quarter of 2006, the first decrease since the beginning of 2005, according a quarterly survey index. But despite the overall decline, satisfaction with individual sites rose substantially.

    This past quarter, the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Government Satisfaction Index showed aggregate citizen satisfaction for the 91 Web sites measured at 73.5 out of 100, a decline of nearly 0.5 percent from the score of 73.9 measured in the fourth quarter of 2005.

  • USA:Deaf Services Commission of Iowa Celebrates 35 Years with New Web site and Videophone Technology

    Deaf Services Commission of Iowa (DSCI) of the Iowa Department of Human Rights is proud to announce an enhanced, newly designed Web site featuring information in American Sign Language (ASL) and access to Commission services through new videophone technology.

    Access to language is a basic human right, and providing critical information to deaf persons in their native language greatly enhances understanding. Tax law changes, timely information about medical issues like H1N1, becoming familiar with the U.S. Census and what it means are all examples of information that most citizens take for granted. DSCI is committed to providing information in ASL, allowing Deaf citizens to access news that most people learn about incidentally. Our newly designed Web site features embedded videos which are closed captioned and/or signed in ASL www.deafservices.iowa.gov.

  • USA:Defense Department memo directs DOD organizations to use online Federal Docket Management System

    The Defense Department doesn’t consider itself a typical rulemaking agency, but with legislative mandates pointing the way, it has moved to the front lines of a govermentwide push toward an open e-rulemaking process. A DOD memo issued at the end of April formally directed all of the department’s entities to use the online Federal Docket Management System (FDMS), a component of the federal e-Rulemaking Initiative, for their public regulatory proceedings.

    The initiative began with the E-Government Act of 2002, which directed government to become more transparent and accountable and more citizen-centric by providing Web-based access to agency records and allowing a broader spectrum of the public to participate in the rulemaking process.

  • USA:DHS tests RFID technology for foot, vehicle traffic at entry points

    The Homeland Security Department plans to install antennas in travel lanes at five locations to detect RFID chips embedded in travel documents carried by international visitors passing through ports of entry into the United States.

    The biometric pilot program, which will run from Aug. 1 through March 2006, is designed to speed both vehicle and pedestrian traffic through the entry ports of Nogales East and Nogales West in Arizona, Alexandria Bay in New York and the Pacific Highway and Peace Arch in Washington state.

  • USA:e-Gov't Practitioners Attack Lack of Progress in Local Auth. Modernisation

    The last four years of eGov initiatives have failed to deliver much more than marginal improvements around the periphery for many local authorities argue contributors in a new report from Hewson Group.

    Writers in the first edition of the Group’s ‘Public Sector Bearing’ series include town hall e-Government practitioners who claim the cost of delivering frontline public services have moved up significantly in the last four years without a concomitant uplift in quality where it matters most. Concentration on ‘e’ channels have left areas of highest demand and highest spend relatively untouched, the report suggests.

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