Digital Government
Who manages contractors?
Commentary: Talk of the virtues of outsourcing federal jobs ignores important unintended consequences
People
The meaning of 'record'
Comment: IT managers and records managers must learn to speak each other's language
Digital Government
The battle of the printer
Commentary: The Bush administration and congress spar over the government printing office
Digital Government
Facing the facts
Commentary: Sept. 11, to be sure, caused a whole new attitude toward access to government information
Digital Government
Data quality politics
Data quality guidelines that federal agencies have been publishing are a double-edged sword
People
E-government silliness
Commentary: Sen. Lieberman's E-Government Act of 2002 would duplicate information responsibilities
People
E-Government: Smoke and mirrors
Commentary: The Bush administration's e-government strategy is an empty charade
People
Paper records in an IT world
Commentary: The business case for electronic records management has become overwhelming
Digital Government
Perils of public access
Comment: Americans are realizing that the wonders of contemporary information technology have a very dark side
Digital Government
Viruses, worms and hoaxes
Don't be too quick to pass on e-mail messages about the latest Internet viruses and worms until you have checked them out yourself
People
FBI foul-up sends message
The FBI recently got a painful reminder of the business case for good records management
People
States show feds the way
Federal agencies would certainly welcome an independent source of funding to improve their Web sites
People
NCLIS' wasted motions
The National Commission on Libraries and Information Science has squandered an opportunity to effect a major impact on federal information policy.
Digital Government
Federal Web sites: half-cocked snapshots
The Clinton administration left a sour taste in everyone's mouth with its last-minute order to take snapshots of federal Web sites
Digital Government
'Hits' don't measure up
Hit counts tell agencies nothing about whether a site is achieving performance goals.
People
A bill worth writing about
The concept of a federal chief information officer held little appeal for me until I saw H.R. 5024, the Federal Information Policy Act of 2000, introduced by Rep. Tom Davis (RVa.).
Digital Government
NTIS' continuing punishment
Here's a question for new Commerce secretary Norman Mineta: Why does the Commerce Department continue to punish the National Technical Information Service with a personnel hiring freeze?
People
A tall order for FirstGov
Everyone is talking about e-government. That's puzzling because no one can say what e-government really is and so no one really knows what's being talked about.
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