Mexico Connects -- Policy and Rural Broadband
Mexico Connects -- Policy and Rural Broadband
'Use of unlicensed spectrum on a secondary basis, such as Wi Fi and Wi Max standards -- is a matter of true public interest. This is the kind of project that does need government intervention, because there is a market failure' MORE

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Jun 22 2007 12:21PM -- Requires the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) to develop a pilot project, which will provide incentives to primary care physicians serving Medicaid recipients who utilize health information technology, including electronic health records.

Apr 10 2007 4:00PM -- Mark Rutledge, Kentucky CIO discusses technology in the Commonwealth.

Apr 6 2007 1:00PM -- Virginia CIO Lem Stewart shares an overview of technology in the state of Virginia.

Feb 14 2007 1:00PM -- Thom Jarrett, Delaware CIO and Secretary of the Department of Technology and Information, described DTI's structure and span of control and discussed the state's current (and largest) ERP initiative and the multi-year plan to build a new Level nine data center for the state. He also discussed the importance of working with the legislative branch to win support for modernization efforts, what states should seek in looking for their next CIO and the odd story of VXML which has turned out to be a very useful but under used technology for bridging the digital divide.

Jan 15 2007 2:53PM -- "We are at the beginning of the Transformational Government strategy and we recognize that we have more to do."

Jan 9 2007 9:04AM -- "It makes sense economically and environmentally to find more ways to cut our energy use."

Dec 13 2006 1:13PM -- Site provides details about seasonal, bird and pandemic flu and efforts to prepare for a pandemic.

Dec 12 2006 1:00PM -- Cathy Maras O'Leary, CIO for Cook County, IL was the featured guest speaker at the Center for Digital Government's November 9th Executive Teleconference. Cathy provided listeners with an overview of the county's existing architecture, ongoing projects, and upcoming initiatives, including insight into how the county conducts business with its IT partners.

Dec 5 2006 12:11PM -- Web site survey results released in conjunction with International Day of Disabled Persons

Nov 7 2006 2:32PM -- "The real issue here is not privacy or cost, it is modernity"

Sep 11 2006 5:00AM -- Orange County, Fla.; Richland County, S.C.; Roanoke County, Va.; Charles County, Md.; top counties

Jun 18 2006 5:28PM -- Health, public safety, tourism OK

Jun 3 2005 11:46AM -- For all the latest international news, click here

May 19 2005 2:16AM -- "Competing interests have intensified a national campaign to quash municipal wireless initiatives like Philadelphia's. Clearly our national communications policies are bankrupt."

May 18 2005 12:26PM -- Technologies, apart from sensitizing people against this practice, can also play a highly interventionist role by proactively pursuing cases against erring doctors, booking them under the law of the land as well as helping people in general change their opinion about the value of a girl child.

May 16 2005 10:23AM -- IBM wants to help organizations run not just their IT systems, but the business operations as well. It's a bold move, but will it work?

May 12 2005 5:32PM -- "Back up the truck, it's a good world we live in."

May 7 2005 1:13PM -- Weekly news, features and people

May 6 2005 1:00AM -- "The majority of federal funding is going into services and products, such as antivirus and firewall technologies, instead of into research. This is not advancing us beyond the current platforms that require those add-on products to be used with a modicum of safety"

Apr 29 2005 2:00AM -- Aims to connect services and information across borough boundaries

Apr 20 2005 2:00AM -- For consideration at WSIS in November

Mar 29 2005 2:00AM -- Major service providers share real-time network attack profiles across global network boundaries

Mar 22 2005 4:01AM -- To seven additional countries in the European Union

Mar 17 2005 4:00AM -- 'Cities generate local economic growth by replacing imports from other cities in a process that, rather than being a zero-sum game, stimulates new growth in the city losing the exports'

Mar 15 2005 3:00AM -- The Digital City ICT applications aim to improve everyday life by simplifying public transactions, reducing telecommunication costs and by delivering new services related to the local way of life

Mar 9 2005 1:03PM -- Fast Internet service, voice-over-Internet protocol calling and information on a park's plants available to residents

Mar 9 2005 10:42AM -- Leaders of top-tier groups providing pirated software plead guilty to copyright infringement

Feb 28 2005 4:02AM -- Future publicly financed or subsidized housing properties for low-income residents should provide a high-speed Internet connection for less than $10 per month

Feb 22 2005 2:44PM -- Up from 2,600 in 2002

Feb 22 2005 1:07PM -- issues addressed include aviation, document security and biometrics sharing

Feb 22 2005 12:53PM -- 'Visas Mantis processing today averages less than 14 days'

Feb 22 2005 12:13PM -- 'We have dramatically improved our technical ability to share information. Tools such as the Homeland Security Operations Center, the Homeland Security Information Network, and the Homeland security Advisory system are steps toward full capacity and capability.'

Feb 18 2005 11:32AM -- Tunisian jailed for 1.5 years for making fun of President Ben Ali

Feb 18 2005 11:15AM -- 'This has been a ground-breaking procurement, which represents a genuine partnership as opposed to a more traditional outsourcing arrangement.'

Feb 18 2005 10:30AM -- Ensures compliance with international interoperability standards

Feb 18 2005 10:15AM -- 31 Jan 2006 deadline

Feb 18 2005 9:59AM -- $2.9 million contract will join city police, fire and emergency medical services into one location

Feb 17 2005 1:41PM -- 'No spectrum auction proceeds will ever be enough to impact the lives of more than 50 million Mexicans the way rural connectivity and IT-based sustainable development projects can.'

Feb 8 2005 11:02AM -- What's the best model for good IT governance in government? Not surprisingly, there's more than one answer.

Jan 25 2005 6:52PM -- Feb. 1-4 in Moscow

Jan 25 2005 12:51PM -- Office 2003 documents will be viewable with any reader, including open source or GPL

Jan 17 2005 5:00AM -- 'Linear analysis will get you a much-changed caterpillar, but it won't get you a butterfly. For that you need a leap of imagination.'

Jan 4 2005 3:08PM -- In some areas, girls with computer training have been rejected from arranged marriages on the grounds that they know computers and so will not adjust well to their marital family.

Dec 28 2004 2:43PM -- U.S. and India to exchange information, intelligence to enhance enforcement of Customs laws

Dec 27 2004 2:28PM -- Group criticizes European decision against software giant

Dec 17 2004 4:53PM -- Wireless network allows users to download information relevant to services available in their immediate vicinity to handheld devices

Dec 10 2004 5:09PM -- By integrating applications into the portal, teachers and students are able to securely access resources from any computer, rather than just a limited number of school workstations

Dec 10 2004 4:24PM -- 'This agreement demonstrates the strong relationship between the UK and U.S. to further scientific research and development that will help advance the security of our respective countries.'

Dec 10 2004 1:42PM -- Something is happening here that no government institution seeking to serve citizens should ignore completely

Dec 9 2004 2:50PM -- 100 European cities from some 25 countries have participated in the survey by adding their eGovernment initiatives to TeleCities European knowledge base

Dec 9 2004 2:46PM -- CyberCity project to be one of largest citywide projects in the world

Dec 9 2004 2:42PM -- Intentions-based rather than merely a directory

Dec 9 2004 11:57AM -- 600 Latin American research institutions can cooperate with European institutions

Dec 2 2004 4:01AM -- Virginia Beach, Va., and Redmond, Wash., bookend the 2004 Digital Cities Survey

Nov 30 2004 4:12PM -- More than 1,500 documents, Web sites and research guides covering some 300 different international law topics

Nov 30 2004 3:48PM -- IT offshoring both a 'challenge and an opportunity'

Nov 30 2004 3:23PM -- High-security independent online access to the Parliament's network

Nov 30 2004 1:20PM -- Microsoft joins UNESCO strategic partnership

Nov 29 2004 4:03AM -- Collects and disseminates alerts in seven languages

Nov 24 2004 3:11PM -- To reduce cost and complexity of distributed systems

Nov 24 2004 3:39AM -- Quick Start Kit for Linux offered in Asia

Nov 22 2004 4:00AM -- Patch management number one concern, say respondents

Nov 18 2004 12:37PM -- The Information Society is a vision for European countries, the route to which is controlled by national agencies and the European Information Society Directorate General

Nov 15 2004 3:08PM -- Preparation for WSIS Summit next year in Tunisia

Nov 15 2004 2:40PM -- 3,000 projects in the database

Nov 15 2004 1:27PM -- 'We reduced the danger of person-to-person contact and hence possible infection when SARS was spreading like wildfire.'

Nov 15 2004 5:00AM -- CIOs, city managers, legislators and one long-dead president struggle to answer the question: 'what makes an effective leader?'

Nov 15 2004 4:00AM -- Announces findings from its International Summit

Nov 10 2004 4:32PM -- Europe's local governments drive a major trend toward GIS -- a trend that could lead to sharing of geo info across the European Union.

Nov 9 2004 4:42PM -- 'Transformed the Department to make fighting terrorism the top priority.'

Nov 9 2004 4:01AM -- 'The Solutions Sharing Network is also transforming the way in which NACo interacts with counties across the United States, better connecting county technology experts and streamlining the process for evolving our core technology strategies.' -- Angelo Kyle, NACo president

Nov 8 2004 8:13PM -- E-government, open source software in the mix

Nov 8 2004 11:40AM -- Plan outlines future IT investment

Nov 5 2004 1:25PM -- Provincewide mugshot storage and sharing system

Nov 4 2004 4:38PM -- System will enable security personnel to monitor movement from a central location, protect passengers and deter crime across the railway

Nov 4 2004 12:16PM -- Signed Oct 29, but must still be ratified

Nov 4 2004 11:36AM -- Information Society building blocks include the number of PC households, IT spending as a percentage of GDP, software spending as a percentage of total IT spending, and IT services spending weighted against GDP

Oct 27 2004 12:10PM -- Shares techniques using digital video surveillance and learns how to track e-mail

Oct 27 2004 10:04AM -- Police department selects single vendor for testing

Oct 25 2004 4:00AM -- The forgotten side of the outsourcing debate

Oct 18 2004 4:22PM -- 'Our department is charged with protecting a mass of information ... However, the need to share this information with other agencies has become a high priority.'

Oct 18 2004 3:49PM -- 'The California Challenge will provide its entrants direct access into the California economy, its employers and venture funds.'

Oct 18 2004 2:06PM -- A first step to help policy makers, regulators and industry

Oct 18 2004 1:50PM -- European based organizations have priority

Oct 18 2004 1:29PM -- More rural poor get Internet kiosks in developing countries

Oct 18 2004 1:16PM -- Will make recommendations at WSIS in Tunis next year

Oct 11 2004 4:00AM -- DGAA spotlights some of the nation's most creative, advanced government Web sites' applications

Oct 8 2004 12:00PM -- 'Use of unlicensed spectrum on a secondary basis, such as Wi Fi and Wi Max standards -- is a matter of true public interest. This is the kind of project that does need government intervention, because there is a market failure'

Oct 4 2004 4:55PM -- Federal and provincial officials speak

Sep 24 2004 4:00AM -- CIOs in Japan struggle with the same issues and opportunities as their American counterparts

Sep 22 2004 7:15PM -- Students and faculty to benefit from ubiquitous access to a university-wide wireless grid

Sep 16 2004 12:59PM -- 'The fact that only 10 percent of organizations are using offshore for service delivery, and that an astounding 80 percent said that they would not consider offshore, clearly indicates that offshore outsourcing has managed to grab a lot more headlines than share of wallet.'

Sep 16 2004 12:41PM -- Data preservation -- the retention of data for a specific case and for a finite period, as practiced in the U.S. and elsewhere -- should remain the preferred method for investigative cooperation, and member states should be permitted to favor preservation over retention

Sep 15 2004 9:57PM -- As Internet penetration rises, the demographic profile of Internet users continues to look more like that of the nation as a whole

Sep 15 2004 9:45PM -- Britain has become a country of computer buffs, with about three quarters of the adult population able to demonstrate some experience through access to a computer

Sep 15 2004 9:27PM -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and OAS Secretary General César Gaviria endorsed the results and proposed further audit to address opposition's concerns

Sep 15 2004 8:21PM -- One hot topic in this year's election is whether (and how) to stop U.S. companies from engaging in offshore outsourcing to India, China and other countries

Sep 15 2004 6:08PM -- 'The cost of maintaining this effective single-source document set for electronic and paper is a fraction of the alternative paper- and file-based systems and the benefits are significantly greater'

Sep 13 2004 4:00AM -- New ITAA survey predicts less IT employment growth for the remainder of the year

Sep 13 2004 4:00AM -- Executive order prohibits state agencies from awarding contracts that result in offshoring unless certain conditions are met

Sep 12 2004 5:22PM -- An Interview With Candido Morales Rosas

Sep 10 2004 4:00AM -- The Center for Digital Government announced the state winners of its 2004 Best of the Web contest

Sep 8 2004 4:00AM -- New law takes effect on January 1, 2005

Sep 2 2004 4:00AM -- Fifteen Florida counties used electronic voting machines

Aug 30 2004 4:00AM -- Progress report and 10 things elections officials can do to secure the vote this November

Aug 20 2004 4:00AM -- To help Indian technology companies expand into the U.S.

Aug 17 2004 6:57AM -- Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to have access in October

Aug 17 2004 6:45AM -- Secure access to confidential legal data and availability among multiple parties

Aug 17 2004 6:37AM -- Hackers replace picture of president with cartoon

Aug 16 2004 4:37PM -- First step toward a fully converged IP VPN

Aug 16 2004 4:01PM -- 67 percent of adults predicted to be online by 2006

Aug 16 2004 3:33PM -- Mrs. Adriana Ticau succeeds Dan Nica

Aug 16 2004 1:40PM -- Numerous databases across 66 collection centers to be consolidated

Aug 16 2004 10:41AM -- 32 case studies in rural governance, gender empowerment, more

Aug 11 2004 5:17PM -- 'Universal Application Network is providing millions of dollars a week in savings to the South African Revenue Service by releasing previously untapped value from the systems that we already have in place.'

Aug 10 2004 1:32PM -- July 10-12, 2005 at Sussex University, Brighton, UK

Aug 10 2004 1:18PM -- 'European Law on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions' raises questions

Aug 4 2004 4:17PM -- Brussels October 19-21

Aug 4 2004 3:21PM -- Expect to see heavy competition in the micropayments space, with a handful of leading transaction types finally joining subscriptions in taking a significant share of this fluid market space

Jul 28 2004 1:20PM -- A secure network for exchange of electronic data between European public administrations

Jul 28 2004 12:46PM -- Students from China, Malaysia and India to swell enrollment, says study

Jul 28 2004 11:59AM -- Key policies driving e-government internationally

Jul 28 2004 11:31AM -- Customized to address the needs of the IT industry in Asia

Jul 22 2004 5:24PM -- RFID, Open Source, Bar Codes, SMS, Cyber Crime

Jul 21 2004 3:40PM -- British Columbia's. Information and Privacy Commissioner, David Loukedelis, launched a public examination of the implications of the USA Patriot Act for British Columbians' personal information involved in outsourcing of public services to US-linked service providers

Jul 20 2004 4:13PM -- Will be compatible with GPS

Jul 19 2004 12:39PM -- Michigan CIO Teri Takai (L) and Governor Jennifer M. Granholm accept award.

Jul 3 2004 1:52PM -- The first institutions joining OSDL under the new program are Marist College, Oregon State University, Stanford University, Tokyo University of Technology and Waseda University in Japan

Jul 1 2004 4:04PM -- 'This year our students have experienced and interacted with experts from the Cabinet War Room in London, a diver from under the water in the Australian Barrier Reef and Health and Social Service officials in South Africa. Videoconferencing gives the concept of primary resources a whole new face.'

Jun 23 2004 4:22PM -- Albright, Brokaw, Kennard, McNealy, Weinback, Thompson, Burns among presenters at September COVITS

Jun 23 2004 10:13AM -- Iris scan and fingerprint recognition technology at Minneapolis/St. Paul, Los Angeles and Houston airports

Jun 21 2004 4:03PM -- USAID; the Romanian Ministry of Communications and IT; the Yokosuka, Japan, City Electronic Bidding; and PEOPLink win recognition

Jun 21 2004 11:06AM -- New challenges for public executives in e-government systems

Jun 18 2004 2:48PM -- 'It is global corporate capital, rather than states, which exercises decisive influence over the organization, location and distribution of economic power and resources in the contemporary global economy.'

Jun 18 2004 1:26PM -- Iris scan security system rollout to begin at Heathrow

Jun 18 2004 12:33PM -- Extends October deadline one year

Jun 17 2004 12:07PM -- E-Envoy's Office transitions into E-Government Unit

Jun 16 2004 3:56PM -- Over objections of European Parliament

Jun 16 2004 9:51AM -- Paper-audit benchmarks established

Jun 15 2004 1:22PM -- Authentication systems needed first to aid law enforcement

Jun 15 2004 12:41PM -- Quick access to news and content channels

Jun 15 2004 10:47AM -- August 2 deadline for ICT company participation

Jun 15 2004 10:32AM -- Adversarial contests, new technology breed suspicion

Jun 14 2004 3:36PM -- figure is expected to increase as the implementation of CRM in other service areas is analyzed

Jun 14 2004 2:59PM -- 60 percent of workers surveyed believe their companies are more likely to outsource to other U.S. companies

Jun 9 2004 11:58AM -- The EU is insistent that each acceding country has fully transparent, efficient administrative systems in place, to ensure that money is allocated to where it is most needed and to minimize the threat of fraud and corruption.

Jun 2 2004 12:00PM -- Java Enterprise System prices range from $0.33 to $1.95 per citizen

May 27 2004 9:21AM -- Regulatory compliance, privacy management advances

May 23 2004 4:56PM -- International data sharing to restrict terrorists' movements

May 23 2004 4:52PM -- Gap is narrowing rapidly

May 23 2004 4:50PM -- Solve more crimes in less time with nationwide system

May 23 2004 4:39PM -- U.K Society of Information Management

May 23 2004 4:30PM -- 'The last 25 years have been the warm-up act.'

May 22 2004 4:46PM -- This is not about: 'is it Microsoft or is it open source?'

May 22 2004 3:59PM -- Citizen Portal of Mexico and Oregon Helps joint winners in e-government category

May 22 2004 3:48PM -- Next awards in 2006

May 22 2004 1:38PM -- Mexico has now surpassed Japan as America's largest trading partner, even though Mexico's economy is only 1/12th that of Japan's. The U.S. sells more products to Chile than to India, as much to Costa Rica as to Eastern Europe

May 21 2004 6:05PM -- 'We have 73 percent of our homes connected to the Internet, as well as 92 percent of our businesses with Internet connections. So e-business is endemic to the whole place. It certainly is not just on the periphery.'

May 12 2004 4:36PM -- Planning to create the nation's first '21st century government'

May 5 2004 2:19PM -- Nine prizes awarded April 25 in Dubai

May 4 2004 7:17PM -- Online training and materials for 10 million teachers

May 3 2004 1:34PM -- Educating for success in the Information Age requires a rethinking of art, technology and creativity. The University of California at San Diego's Sixth College is doing so to prepare its students for the challenges of the new millennium and the Information Age.

May 3 2004 5:00AM -- S. 150 passes by 93-3 Senate vote

Apr 16 2004 5:12PM -- The importance of efficient patenting systems in promoting technological innovation and modernization

Apr 16 2004 1:54PM -- Hand-held designed to bridge the digital divide in India

Apr 15 2004 5:08PM -- Serviços do Estado têm Novo Portal

Apr 15 2004 12:54PM -- Contains basic words, expressions and sentences

Apr 15 2004 12:33PM -- POLIS will improve responsiveness, access to legislation

Apr 15 2004 12:04PM -- 15 conferences planned for Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East

Apr 14 2004 5:13PM -- Centralizing financial systems over the Internet

Apr 14 2004 4:11PM -- 'We have no comparative advantage or superiority in innovation. To assume that we are inherently more creative than our foreign competitors is both arrogant and naive. We are currently empowering our competition with the resources to innovate equally as well as we.'

Apr 1 2004 11:24AM -- ITAA argues that outsourcing computer work through expanded global trade will create 317,000 new jobs in the United States by 2008

Apr 1 2004 10:49AM -- The state's Virtual Law Office will be developed using open-standards and open-source components

Mar 31 2004 2:35PM -- The agreement will create dozens of jobs in Wisconsin and may lead to future contracts with Chinese governments

Mar 26 2004 7:25PM -- Is offshore outsourcing too politically charged for government?

Mar 25 2004 8:21AM -- Hoping to transform the voting system into a technically sound, accurate, secure, inexpensive, uniform and open system

Mar 25 2004 5:00AM -- More than 500 government agencies and institutions make electronic purchases through eVA

Mar 24 2004 5:00AM -- Three initiatives to stimulate the economy and spur job growth

Mar 23 2004 5:00AM -- Gov. Granholm signed two executive directives designed to keep jobs related to state government contracts and services in Michigan

Mar 22 2004 4:56PM -- In international business, different countries have different legal rules for contracts

Mar 22 2004 1:33PM -- Nationwide implementation scheduled for June elections

Mar 22 2004 12:21PM -- Conclusions from study of 85 countries between 1999-2000

Mar 19 2004 3:41PM -- Integration gateway, national smartcard also in progress

Mar 19 2004 3:10PM -- For eventual use by buyers and sellers

Mar 19 2004 12:35PM -- A perspective from the private sector

Mar 18 2004 10:09AM -- Opens a vast array of educational opportunities including linking language classes directly to foreign schools, history classes to heritage museums, science classes to natural history museums and many other exciting partnership possibilities.

Mar 18 2004 9:58AM -- Opens a vast array of educational opportunities including linking language classes directly to foreign schools, history classes to heritage museums, science classes to natural history museums and many other exciting partnership possibilities.

Mar 16 2004 4:23PM -- Europol and UN Office on Drugs and Crime sign agreement

Mar 16 2004 3:20PM -- UK's E-Envoy to exit, plus changes in U.S. ICT leadership

Mar 16 2004 2:26PM -- Trade conflicts heat up

Mar 15 2004 12:44PM -- Self-regulatory approach sought

Mar 15 2004 10:54AM -- According to University of Michigan study

Mar 12 2004 5:00AM -- Innovative plans under way for the second year

Feb 3 2004 2:00PM -- Costis Toregas has spent more than 30 years in the field of government and technology.

Jan 31 2004 6:37PM -- A much enhanced, more streamlined and secured organization

Jan 31 2004 5:01PM -- Needed to ensure consistency of metadata across public organizations

Jan 31 2004 4:12PM -- 1,000 hits per day from worried citizens

Jan 31 2004 2:35PM -- IPv6 the key to accessibility, economic competitiveness

Jan 31 2004 1:30PM -- Conférence et séance de formation d'un jour

Jan 31 2004 1:22PM -- PIPEDA went into effect last month

Jan 30 2004 3:56PM -- Public administration as both a user and a regulator of technology

Jan 30 2004 2:15PM -- Electronic services available for citizens still below that of business.

Jan 30 2004 1:15PM -- Software founder says e-gov is a

Jan 29 2004 4:39PM -- In e-government, education, culture, health, and more

Jan 28 2004 1:10PM -- New York, Massachusetts and Virginia pour resources into digital economy

Jan 27 2004 8:00AM -- Will add 4,500 jobs in U.S., however

Jan 26 2004 4:18PM -- Greg Jackson and Lemuel C. Stewart, Jr., named to top state technology posts

Jan 22 2004 5:13PM -- 24 international education projects

Jan 22 2004 8:00AM -- Today legislative site receives 11.4 million queries a month

Jan 22 2004 7:12AM -- Report on a federally funded online absentee voting system uncovers voter privacy issues

Jan 20 2004 2:11PM -- 24 projects from 15 different countries

Jan 18 2004 2:57PM -- Sweden's 'Information Society for All' Phase 2

Jan 16 2004 9:50AM -- Compares Internet users in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States

Jan 15 2004 4:44PM -- Free virtual legal assistance for consumer rights

Jan 15 2004 11:57AM -- A 'jobless economic recovery' in an election year increases pressure for regulation of offshore IT outsourcing

Jan 15 2004 9:25AM -- 69 percent of U.S. adults are online

Jan 15 2004 8:57AM -- Profiles of 42 states representing 86 percent of the nation's population

Jan 14 2004 7:01AM -- Massachusetts governor finalizes open standards for IT acquisitions

Jan 13 2004 10:47AM -- A broadband connection in every electrical socket

Jan 12 2004 5:07AM --

Jan 6 2004 5:10PM -- 370 million children are unable to attend school

Jan 6 2004 5:07PM -- The Center for Digital Government's second annual meeting on public leadership yielded more than its share of provocative ideas.

Jan 6 2004 5:00AM -- One of fastest-growing technologies in history, says study

Jan 5 2004 8:52AM -- Security software strongest

Jan 2 2004 11:03AM -- Requires fingerprints and photos of all visitors required to have visas

Dec 31 2003 9:47AM -- 'Government should get out of the business of micro-management of telecommunications ... and regulators should content themselves to set broad national policies that encourage investment and deployment of new services...'

Dec 30 2003 3:38PM -- Students in Russia, the U.S. and other regions to participate

Dec 23 2003 3:16PM -- Pontso Khalema

Dec 23 2003 1:55PM -- Mayor Mohammed Cissé is also the webmaster

Dec 17 2003 10:00AM -- GovNet to allow better citizen participation in government.

Dec 16 2003 12:00PM -- First national anti-spam law

Dec 15 2003 5:00PM -- Training program combines planning, finance and management with practical vaccinology

Dec 5 2003 9:33AM -- Kids not getting enough online time at school, say parents

Dec 4 2003 11:38AM -- Em abril deste ano, 95% (16,5 milhões) do total das declarações foram enviadas pela Internet utilizando o Receitanet.

Dec 4 2003 10:36AM -- 'This year, 95 percent (16.5 million) of the total income tax declarations in Brazil were submitted via the Internet.'

Dec 2 2003 10:13AM -- Services include PDA center, cab-fare calculator, GIS

Dec 1 2003 9:13AM -- Unemployment system won't be upgraded by Indian workers

Nov 26 2003 3:59PM -- While many countries have loudly proclaimed they will use technology to transform government, Canada has quietly accomplished what others are still talking about

Nov 25 2003 5:01PM -- Karen Evans is the newest e-government chief for the U.S. federal government

Nov 25 2003 10:03AM -- Includes the effect of ICT on productivity, the key elements of national e-strategies, and the implications of open-source and free software for economic development

Nov 24 2003 1:22PM -- Tech investments must consider best value and total cost of ownership

Nov 23 2003 2:43PM -- An interview with the president of Western Governors University

Nov 20 2003 4:03PM -- UK Passport Service pilot contract to be awarded within several weeks

Nov 20 2003 11:46AM -- From government to groceries, U.S. takes a second look at kiosks

Nov 19 2003 2:32PM -- More than a dozen successful strategies used by government

Nov 19 2003 11:35AM -- Message, not the medium, determines record category, retention period

Nov 18 2003 8:57PM -- Betinho Prize, Directorio del Estado

Nov 18 2003 8:22PM -- 100 cities studied

Nov 18 2003 7:54PM -- WSIS, Spam and Cookies, Stockholm

Nov 18 2003 6:29PM -- Beijing Web site, Australian Database, Cyber Crackdown

Nov 18 2003 5:02PM -- Ethiopia Broadband, African Medical Net

Nov 18 2003 4:22PM -- Site provides extensive analysis of plans and proposals, tracks the plan through the public participation and legislative review process, and highlights opportunities for public involvement

Nov 18 2003 3:34PM -- Site provides extensive analysis of plans and proposals, tracks the plan through the public participation and legislative review process, and highlights opportunities for public involvement

Nov 18 2003 10:16AM -- To bridge digital divide for 1.3 billion citizens

Nov 18 2003 9:55AM -- High-use forms must be ready by end of this year

Nov 17 2003 4:18PM -- One of India's Top Technology officials discusses the country's soon-to-be-released ICT Policy

Nov 17 2003 10:03AM -- Sites range from government-specific to eBay

Nov 13 2003 5:33PM -- Is connectivity and technology what is most needed?

Nov 12 2003 9:28AM -- Suit seeks choice in exposure

Oct 24 2003 2:01PM -- Developed with guidance from international public-sector IT experts

Oct 24 2003 1:30PM -- Nueva herramienta que ayuda a acerear a la gente en linea

Oct 24 2003 1:26PM -- Directorio del Estado a 'roadmap for online services'

Oct 23 2003 11:41AM -- Will work with Evans to ensure e-gov initiatives are using IT to provide services to taxpayers

Oct 20 2003 11:22AM -- "Excelente por donde se la mire"

Oct 20 2003 10:33AM -- Five pillars of a new knowledge society

Oct 17 2003 3:26PM -- Technology can benefit the democratic system as a whole, says official

Oct 17 2003 12:22PM -- The solutions have been without any context, more or less floating on top of the ordinary service output.

Oct 16 2003 10:03AM -- "I have the people that wrote and designed the systems that 10,000 people in the county are using every day in their work. And these people are going to walk away."

Oct 15 2003 2:09PM -- The director of the MINDEF Systems Organization discusses Singapore's Web site for national service

Oct 14 2003 5:15PM -- Bangladesh's Grameen Bank pioneered micro-credit for poverty alleviation and has managed to reach 2.4 million borrowers, 95 percent of whom are rural women.

Oct 14 2003 3:38PM -- http://www.espanol.gov

Oct 14 2003 3:31PM -- http://www.espanol.gov

Oct 14 2003 1:18PM -- Examples of why IT is so important during tight economic times

Oct 13 2003 12:23PM -- Best government applications also recognized

Oct 10 2003 3:30PM -- Arnold wins California recall election; voting systems still in doubt

Oct 10 2003 8:26AM -- A new dimension to e-government ROI

Sep 23 2003 5:41PM -- Appeals court reverses ruling that would have postponed gubernatorial recall

Sep 23 2003 12:29PM -- Virginia conference brings corporate, government and academic leaders together to craft technology future

Sep 15 2003 9:01PM -- Cambodia ICT, Japan ID, Australian Spam, SARS and E-Learning, Thai Literacy

Sep 15 2003 8:57PM -- E-Nigeria, Rwanda Schools,

Sep 15 2003 8:53PM -- Privacy Template, Passports Delayed, Do Not Call, VOIP Regs, Punch Cards,

Sep 15 2003 8:48PM -- E-Italy, German Road-Tolls, UK Needs CIO, eDag,

Sep 15 2003 8:42PM -- Afghan Police Academy, Tunisian Visit, UAE Education

Sep 15 2003 8:36PM -- WSIS, Voices from the South

Sep 15 2003 8:33PM -- Education, Telecom Standards, Poor Countries,

Sep 15 2003 9:32AM -- Todos escriben acerca de los maravillosos principios del Gobierno Abierto, pero ¿qué es lo que hay en la realidad?

Sep 14 2003 11:23AM -- Cards offer hope for economic efficiency in Africa, where inflation runs as high as 400 percent

Sep 14 2003 10:23AM -- ECAVU working in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan Ukraine and Uzbekistan

Sep 11 2003 1:49PM -- NASCIO recognizes 10 state programs

Sep 10 2003 2:23PM -- Open government a closed door for many countries

Sep 3 2003 1:21PM -- To move from post as CIO of Department of Energy

Aug 20 2003 8:54AM -- Schools from U.S., Canada and Mexico selected to participate in technology, cross-cultural programs

Aug 18 2003 11:14AM -- Making a difference with the Global Knowledge Partnership

Aug 18 2003 10:02AM -- $298,000 for Yoruba language program

Aug 15 2003 9:27AM -- Uses statistical models to find the most likely translation for a given input

Aug 14 2003 1:04PM --

Aug 14 2003 12:51PM -- Information on publications and events welcomed

Aug 13 2003 11:11AM -- Three-country EU project employed wireless phones and computers

Aug 11 2003 10:32AM -- To research and education partners in Latin America

Jul 25 2003 12:53PM --

Jul 25 2003 12:44PM -- Changing population results in Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese and Cambodian language content

Jul 25 2003 12:24PM -- Enquanto o mundo discute o futuro da água no 3º Fórum Mundial, no Japão, a cidade de Volta Redonda apresenta uma solução de alta tecnologia contra o desperdício e a contaminação

Jul 25 2003 12:12PM -- 20 percent savings by eliminating water leaks and illegal connections

Jul 25 2003 11:40AM -- Includes FirstGov.gov and USA Services programs

Jul 25 2003 11:27AM -- Usage and satisfaction rises, new services added

Jul 25 2003 10:13AM -- America's dispute With Europe: a view from Germany

Jul 24 2003 4:12PM -- The 12 best IT projects and leaders

Jul 24 2003 2:55PM -- Technology meets traditional business practices

Jul 23 2003 3:12PM -- $2.6 billion federal program followed by $2 billion E-Moscow program

Jul 23 2003 12:07PM -- Large differences call for cross-country cooperation

Jul 20 2003 12:46PM -- "We have created an academic process that is equal to, and sometimes superior to, what exists in a brick-and-mortar classroom."

Jul 17 2003 10:11AM -- University of Texas at Austin team finishes first in coached simulation league at international robotic championship

Jul 15 2003 11:20AM -- Washington state heads up coalition of cities, counties, states and private-sector participants in pilot project designed to defeat child abductors

Jul 15 2003 10:43AM -- Strategic IT "should be a budget weapon, not a budget victim"

Jul 14 2003 6:06PM -- Transforming the relationship between government and citizen from benefactor/beneficiary to principle/client

Jul 14 2003 9:26AM -- Finanzas Públicas de El Salvador

Jul 14 2003 8:31AM -- Ha Noi seminar to be followed by similar events in Sri Lanka and India

Jul 11 2003 4:33PM -- From Australia to Zimbabwe

Jul 11 2003 2:21PM -- South African teledensity at 42 percent

Jul 11 2003 12:00PM -- Chile's Enlaces project brings technology and training to schools

Jul 11 2003 8:24AM -- Designed to promote best practices and make Europe the most competitive knowledge-based society

Jul 3 2003 1:21PM -- Australia's minister for communications, information technology and the arts on ICT transformation.

Jun 26 2003 7:23PM -- Development impact and deployment issues on the agenda

Jun 26 2003 6:10PM -- Swedish WAN, UK Online, Turku, Finland Info Society

Jun 25 2003 5:27PM -- Open source software is hot, and government is jumping on board, though with a bit more caution than its private-sector counterparts

Jun 25 2003 11:34AM -- The vision of a new Lebanon

Jun 24 2003 3:31PM -- Hard work and innovation acknowledged

Jun 24 2003 12:32PM -- Ranked first for fourth consecutive year

Jun 23 2003 3:07PM -- Showcasing innovative applications in local government

Jun 23 2003 12:51PM -- Cities must assert their importance, says Boston's mayor

Jun 23 2003 11:38AM -- Resumen ejecutivo

Jun 23 2003 9:23AM -- Internet kiosks and WAP-enabled mobile phones help African farmers win better prices

Jun 13 2003 3:31PM -- E-Procurement, Interoperability, GIS, SARS Tracking

Jun 13 2003 2:02PM -- Security and Privacy, VAT, Project Management

Jun 13 2003 1:41PM -- Baghdad police radio system

Jun 13 2003 1:06PM -- Agencies have broad latitude to choose mission-enabling technology

Jun 13 2003 10:41AM -- Finland electronic signatures, Safer Internet Action Plan, Munich Linux

Jun 13 2003 10:18AM -- Voices From the South

Jun 13 2003 8:07AM -- Yam Pukri, Addis Ababa

Jun 13 2003 7:51AM -- Colombia Online, Brazil Number One, Internet Study

Jun 11 2003 10:51AM -- Denied a voice in state-owned media, Zimbabwean dissidents and human rights activists take to the Internet to get their messages aired

Jun 11 2003 9:23AM -- From queues to clicks: an overview of digital government initiatives in India's high-tech region

Jun 10 2003 2:53PM -- Karnataka's e-governance secretary discusses projects in India's Silicon Valley

Jun 6 2003 8:40AM -- An interview with Guillermo Narvaéz Osorio president of the Supreme Court of Justice, Tabasco, Mexico

Jun 6 2003 8:15AM -- Entrevista con Guillermo Narváez Osorio Presidente del Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Tabasco, Mexico

Jun 2 2003 8:23AM -- Por Jannette Nielsen y Ulrik Meinertz

May 30 2003 3:18PM -- In a region of restricted movement and limited freedom of expression online discourse is thriving.

May 30 2003 9:46AM -- Simputer, Jhai PC and the Village PDA -- new philosophy and new equipment bring ICT to the Third World

May 29 2003 1:57PM -- From conference in Muscat, Oman earlier this month

May 29 2003 11:29AM -- System allows quicker security checks at airports

May 29 2003 11:11AM -- Distance education moves from radio to satellite

May 29 2003 11:05AM -- Research and investment continue to develop uniquely African approaches

May 28 2003 2:51PM -- New technologies employed for flood prediction, water modeling

May 28 2003 1:20PM -- Required by "No Child Left Behind" Act

May 28 2003 12:30PM -- An interview with Bangladesh's technology chief

May 28 2003 9:39AM -- How useful is the public-sector store?

May 28 2003 8:23AM -- Secretary-general's addresses to ministers in Bangkok

May 22 2003 12:50PM -- From previous issues

May 19 2003 2:17PM -- Finland's public institutions ranked best in the world

May 19 2003 12:13PM -- Japan employee portal, New Zealand citizen passwords, Australian supply chain innovations

May 18 2003 11:52AM -- Contributions to African ICT

May 18 2003 11:04AM -- Obstacles stifle a pent-up demand for e-commerce from Africa's growing middle class

May 17 2003 4:59PM -- State-owned monopolies fight competition from VOIP, cellular and least-cost routing systems

May 17 2003 2:38PM -- Health project results promising, could lead to widespread rollout

May 17 2003 1:37PM -- Information and communication technologies offer the hope of bridging Africa's gaping educational divide

May 15 2003 3:46PM -- Rwanda project helps young survivors of civil war

May 12 2003 11:18AM -- Middle Eastern cities and the Information Society

May 10 2003 4:11PM -- Motor busses carry store-and-forward broadband networks -- workable business models team corporations with civil society organizations

May 9 2003 2:08PM -- Recipients include Chicago's 311 and the federal government's FirstGov.gov website

May 9 2003 11:08AM -- From previous issues

May 7 2003 10:32AM -- When the Kabul faculty members return to Afghanistan, they also will have 40 used computers donated by Purdue and more than 165 donated textbooks, reference materials, syllabi and CD-based educational materials

May 6 2003 11:49AM -- Power lines may make broadband access cheaper, more available

May 5 2003 1:48PM -- Effects on technology programs and funding still to be determined

May 1 2003 3:01PM -- Conclusiones del seminario gobierno en línea en Ecuador

Apr 30 2003 7:04PM -- US E-Gov Plan, GIS Conference, E-Rate Update

Apr 30 2003 6:10PM -- Belgium ID and Tax, Telecities, Azerbaijan

Apr 30 2003 4:05PM -- Red Escolar, Porto Alegre

Apr 30 2003 2:46PM -- Cape Town ERP, TB Text Messaging, Blind of Ethiopia

Apr 29 2003 4:54PM -- Preserving local government by the use of shared back-office eGovernment systems

Apr 29 2003 12:05PM -- Dubai online, UAE forum, .iq for Iraq

Apr 29 2003 11:01AM -- Convenient transactions among public, government and private sectors

Apr 29 2003 9:21AM -- Korea IT ed, SARS delays meetings, rail track radio

Apr 28 2003 11:12AM -- System handles enterprise projects throughout their lifecycles

Apr 26 2003 3:07PM -- Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay

Apr 26 2003 3:05PM -- Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay

Apr 26 2003 10:16AM -- Chile y sus desafios en materia de e-government

Apr 25 2003 10:09AM -- Tracking and projecting land loss helps plan for future

Apr 25 2003 9:36AM -- Assists public resolve ballot complexities, locate polling places

Apr 24 2003 4:58PM -- Barcelona Mayo 5-7: un punto de reunión sobre la experiencia europea y latinoamericana

Apr 23 2003 1:06PM -- 1,600 peer-reviewed projects from 140 countries

Apr 23 2003 11:25AM -- Barcelona May 5-7: a meeting point for European and Latin American experience

Apr 22 2003 5:13PM -- An interview with Julie Young, director of the Florida Virtual School

Apr 22 2003 1:43PM -- Multitude of approaches, however, causes concern

Apr 22 2003 12:09PM -- "This is our problem, these are our children"

Apr 17 2003 8:49AM -- American Internet users have a strong interest in using government websites

Apr 15 2003 7:18PM -- Fondos disponibles, iniciativas de tecnología, el concurso Stockholm Challenge

Apr 15 2003 6:42PM -- Los sitios Web gubernamentales comparten cada vez mayor información

Apr 15 2003 6:18PM -- Government websites increasing information, interaction and understanding

Apr 15 2003 12:08PM -- De otro modo uno es un pescado muerto

Apr 15 2003 11:55AM -- You must master that language, otherwise, you are a dead fish

Apr 15 2003 11:35AM -- El chico, no es un dotado -- Mamá es la que lo hizo dotado.

Apr 15 2003 11:10AM -- "Mom, she's the one that makes him gifted."

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Apr 12 2003 4:31PM -- Relationship between government and its agencies begins to change

Apr 12 2003 2:24PM -- "Los niños estaban buscando maneras de participar"

Apr 11 2003 3:55PM -- La importancia del Idioma y la Tecnología en la nueva era

Apr 11 2003 3:44PM -- Technical terms are a language of their own

Apr 11 2003 12:26PM -- Como un maestro latino mejoró la educación en los Estados Unidos

Apr 11 2003 11:52AM -- An Interview with Jaime Escalante

Apr 9 2003 11:30AM -- People from 100 countries join lesson taught by Angelique Kidjo

Apr 9 2003 10:51AM -- International competition offers scholarships, grants

Apr 7 2003 12:19PM -- Applications -- available to students worldwide -- due June 15

Apr 3 2003 3:35PM -- Top CIOs of U.S., Mexico, Canada, Washington, D.C., and the Department of Homeland Security to speak

Mar 29 2003 2:26PM -- German employment site, UK's e-envoy in trouble, Stockholm Challenge open

Mar 29 2003 1:08PM -- eFinland site a source of Information Society news

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Mar 28 2003 4:45PM -- Best practice awards to be presented Nov. 25

Mar 28 2003 3:43PM -- Best of California, Internet Use, Accessibility

Mar 28 2003 10:14AM -- IST Research, Spatial Infrastructure, Network Security Agency, Wireless Broadband

Mar 27 2003 3:48PM -- March 27, 2003

Mar 27 2003 2:11PM -- U.S. Secretary of Education and Utah's Governor dedicate the WGU online teachers college

Mar 26 2003 11:52AM -- The ABCD phased approach -- an industry perspective

Mar 24 2003 12:47PM -- April 15 Issue

Mar 24 2003 11:34AM -- E-mail the main channel for political communication

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Mar 17 2003 12:24PM -- Public polling on issues of concern, from EU initiatives to Iraq

Mar 17 2003 8:11AM -- Kickstarts development with "pragmatic" rather than "best" practices

Mar 15 2003 5:47PM -- A study of EU cities reveals patterns and a place for policy

Mar 15 2003 2:05PM -- Billions to be saved in public administration say Swedish and Danish government studies

Mar 14 2003 3:10PM -- An interview with the secretary general of the European Commission

Mar 14 2003 9:22AM -- Cities put unique stamp on ICT development and projects

Mar 4 2003 6:49AM -- International scientific and technical research

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Feb 28 2003 8:45PM -- Finland ranks number one

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Feb 28 2003 3:37PM -- Respect and appropriate solutions key to development

Feb 28 2003 11:40AM -- How can a city as old as Rome prepare for the future while keeping traditions and history alive?

Feb 28 2003 9:54AM -- Come può una città così antica come Roma prepararsi al futuro mantenendo vive le tradizioni e la storia?

Feb 27 2003 12:40PM -- Wishes, dreams and promises are not enough

Feb 26 2003 2:10PM -- Unusual and Innovative ICT Applications from the first six months of GTI

Feb 21 2003 4:31PM -- Community centers bring electricity, clean water, computers and telecom to "off the grid" villages

Feb 19 2003 12:37PM -- 800 courses and programs of study

Feb 19 2003 11:17AM -- An update on the SimHouston program

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Feb 14 2003 1:56PM -- 80 percent reduction in city's central business district

Feb 14 2003 1:05PM -- 1,600 projects from 140 countries

Feb 13 2003 3:44PM -- To recover revenues lost on Internet sales

Feb 13 2003 12:32PM -- Swedish IT Crisis Provides New Opportunity

Feb 11 2003 9:44AM -- "Lego approach" builds e-government with standards, flexibility

Feb 7 2003 6:11PM -- Director of Technology Empowerment Network

Jan 30 2003 6:58PM -- Australian facial recognition pilot is successful

Jan 30 2003 5:04PM -- Kuwait has e-government support from highest levels.

Jan 30 2003 3:55PM -- Microsoft opens Windows source code to national governments

Jan 30 2003 11:16AM -- India's e-governance accelerating with brakes on, says report

Jan 29 2003 3:03PM -- Best practice news and conferences

Jan 29 2003 2:27PM -- Pilot running for three months in Toronto and Montreal

Jan 29 2003 11:05AM -- Stockholm's new mayor discusses technology and the future

Jan 24 2003 11:15AM -- Modeled after the Digital Diaspora Network for Africa

Jan 23 2003 3:39PM -- Ireland aims to close the gap between high economic growth and low technology takeup

Jan 22 2003 11:18AM -- Send your suggestions to the editor

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Jan 15 2003 12:03PM -- Framework for mobile solution development

Jan 15 2003 10:42AM -- The "inside story" from Pyongyang

Jan 14 2003 12:01PM -- An interview with Chetan Sharma

Jan 14 2003 9:53AM -- From telecommunications to Internet 2