David Fletcher: eGovernmentElectronic GovernmentBrown Survey of State eGovernment- September 22, 2004 Brown University Taubmann Center announced their 2004 e-government winners. The top five are: Tennessee Maine Utah New York Illinois Tom mentions this in his GovTech Blog. Tom, the reason why Utah is not mentioned in the Center for Digital Government Best of the Web list is that Utah won last year and were not eligible for this year's competition. We'll do our best for 2005. Brown looked at 1,569 sites in their state survey which amounts to over 30 sites per state so...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/categories/egovernment/2004/09/22.html#a1471 Taiwan the best at e-government- September 17, 2004 According to Darrell West of Brown University, Taiwan is now the top ranked e-government. The Brown Center for Public Policy surveyed almost two thousand websites in 198 countries. This year's report is not yet available on the Center's website, but Singapore was ranked 2nd and the U.S. 3rd. I'm wondering about the the Scandinavian countries who traditionally place very high. The small town of Keizer, Oregon has a new website. A Louisiana columnist complains about that..http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/categories/egovernment/2004/09/17.html#a1468 Accident Information in Kansas- September 3, 2004 Kansas is now posting its accident logs to the web in a nicely arranged service. Utah has been doing this for some time, but I really like the GIS front end to the Kansas service. We could do more here. The nice thing is that the data is coming in from all the dispatch centers through standard XML, so to display it in different ways is relatively simple - and it includes a lot of local data as well.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/categories/egovernment/2004/09/03.html#a1457 |