David Fletcher's Government and Technology Weblognews & perspectives from a long-time egov advocateMore Online Government Services- April 26, 2005 Registration has begun for Utah's new online construction registry. Governor Huntsman had a chance to understand a little more about how UWIN has aided statewide communications interoperability in his recent visit to southern Utah. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is sponsoring a bill to restrict the information that the National Weather Service can post online. This legislation threatens egovernment in general. For the NWS, it would limit information to only that which private weather.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/04/26.html#a1632 New Zealand close to CURAM decision- April 18, 2005 Here's the latest announcement on Utah's new CIO. Tao Gedas is publishing a new periodical on information technology in the public sector. Here's the first issue. Carlos Guadian is a leader in recognizing the global nature of the revolution that is occuring in the way governments conduct business and has made his k-government weblog available in English and Chinese in addition to other languages. Government Technology has a long writeup on Utah's eREP system (enterprise system for...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/04/18.html#a1631 Isles of Scilly- April 15, 2005 This is the future of monitoring: all the time, from your handheld The Isles of Scilly report on a new egov initiative..http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/04/15.html#a1630 VITA Facing Financial Issues- April 15, 2005 VITA, Virginia's recently consolidated IT department had $20 million in retained earnings last July. Now (end of February) they're $1.4 million in the red. That's peligroso to let that happen with a newly consolidated organization. And they're expecting an even bigger deficit in the future unless agency rates are increased to recover extra costs for cybersecurity, an important initiative to be sure, but dangerous nevertheless. Maybe that's not entirely accurate. A..http://radio.weblogs.com/0110120/2005/04/14.html#a1629 |