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Bill Piatt
Piatt: The key word is 'shared'
The SIGs were formed to focus on areas of common interest to government and industry.
- By Bill Piatt
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From pyramids to plywood
Perhaps no aspect of the Internet's impact on government operations is more significant than the organizational models the Internet is driving in the private sector.
- By Bill Piatt
No vacation from e-gov
August isn't what it used to be. In years past, it was a quiet time when everyone in Washington, D.C., was either on vacation or enjoying the empty restaurants, Metro trains and roads
- By Bill Piatt
Workforce
Portal will help e-gov click
President Clinton's firstever Webcast on June 24 marked the dawn of a new era in electronic government
- By Bill Piatt
Workforce
Information access for all
Innovative federal program managers have moved more than 100 million pages of information onto the Internet during the past five years. Despite these valiant efforts, information is still unnecessarily hard to find and use.
- By Bill Piatt
Workforce
Defining e-government
Do you think about your refrigerator and consider it "technology"? Of course not.
- By Bill Piatt
Workforce
Internet, interagency
There is so much talk about estuff these days that one is tempted to cry out 'enough!' However, just as no one today would refer to their TV remote control or cable as 'technology,' we soon will drop the 'e' because that will just be the way things are.
- By Bill Piatt
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Citizens @ MyGov.gov
I recently saw a calendar with this caution: 'Warning! Dates are closer than they appear!' Nothing could be more appropriate for today's world. 'Internet time' has dramatically accelerated the rate of change, making procrastination more costly than ever ? even lifethreatening to slowmoving organizations.
- By Bill Piatt
Workforce
Embrace the new economy
As we enter 2000, perhaps the greatest challenge for all of us is to ensure that the public sector keeps pace with the social transformation it set in motion when it created and unleashed the Internet. We must embrace the fact that the communication made possible by the Internet really does change everything about how the public will expect us to organize service delivery.
- By Bill Piatt