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Medicare.gov is a useful new government sponsored resourse that provides data evaluating nursing homes that have been certified by Medicare and Medicaid. The site has a general search engine, as well as one that permits users to locate nursing homes by state. In addition, the site also provides links to state sponsored data on nursing …
The Citizens Action Project is sponsored by the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. This organization has created a database detailing specifically what public records pertaining to sex offenders are made available by states via their respective Web portals. Information provided includes references to state statutes and case law, but no …
According to a GAO review, the Department of the Interior continues to have major administrative problems, including those that include their IT infrastructure. Federal Computer Week (FCW) has updated readers on the issues that continue to plague the agency some 11 months after U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth’s order to shut down all online systems. …
The non-profit citizen advocacy group Public Citizen conducted a state-by-state survey of disciplinary data, and the information is current as of April 3, 2002. It may be viewed in an oveall quick chart format here. Specific information provided includes the direct, state sponsored e-gov address where doctor data is located, whether the state provides disciplinary …
E-government information, reports and related documents are certainly in the news as of late. The Performance Institute released a new study on October 30, in PDF: Creating a Performance-Based Electronic Government, Fiscal Year 2002 Progress. The report is subtitled, “The State-of-the-Practice on How e-Government Initiatives in Federal Agencies are Progressing Toward Achieving Cost Efficiencies and …
UK government web sites have a poor track record with users, and the Prime Minister’s site is at the top of the failure list of the 20 sites reviewed. This is according to “A Report Into Key Government Web Sites,” which is reviewed here, but can only be obtained in full-text via purchase. In a …
The IRS is mobilizing to migrate 80% of tax filing from paper to online by 2007. To accomplish this goal, the agency is working with private enterprise to provide links to free e-filing services via a new IRS web site, by January 2003. For related information, see also this GAO Report, Tax Administration, Electronic Filing’s …
Taylor Nelson Sofres, a UK-based global marketing company, has published a new report that benchmarks the impact and use of e-gov services worldwide. Their 55 page (in PDF) Government Online Study, uses data collected from 29,000 interviews conducted with individuals in 31 counties, including the UK, Canada, and the U.S. The study provides a important …
The BBC reports on Singapore’s eCitizen Portal, winner of the Stockholm Challenge 2002 Award for e-government.
The Progress and Freedom Foundation published their Digital State 2002 report. The 62 page report (in PDF) is based on responses to 50 questions used as benchmarks for the study, and document the evolution and growing importance of e-government web sites. States increasingly use them to collect and manage data on intranets for administrative purposes, …
If you are interested in e-mail press releases, updates, and related resources on the 2004 Presidential campaign, sponsored by the non-profit, non-partisan Minnesota-based group E-Democracy, you may subscribe via this link.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that they received 52% of their filings for the month of September electronically. This marks a milestone in the agency’s e-government initiative to migrate filings from paper to online format.
