IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

“This new online reporting system is going to help streamline our processes, not only in the auditing department, but in the whole of DCS,” said John Richard, Director of the Department of Central Services. “The more feedback we get from individuals, the better we can improve the service we deliver to Oklahoma.”

“Science and technology are critical to the future of Oklahoma,” said Michael Carolina, OCAST executive director. “We built our new Web site with a focus on providing visitors with useful tools for new ideas in technology-based economic development.”

As one Iraqi doctor put it, Iraq is more like a seventh-world country, not just a third-world nation.

But interaction between Baghdad and Tulsa could make a difference and an investment serving rural Oklahomans is making it all possible.

The people you see and hear on a video screen interacting with doctors from OSU's Center for Health Sciences are doctors at Iraq's second largest hospital.

Chamber of Commerce President Barbara Hawkins said Google is going to work with up to 15 U.S. communities to install broadband communications networks as part of the program.

“The internet is an essential tool for many reasons,” she said. High speed broadband is essential for business infrastructure, both to draw potential businesses here or keep them here.

CARS will also allow Oklahomans to sign up to receive an email when it is time to renew their tag with the Tax Commission’s REMIND ME utility. Reminders will be sent the first day of the expiration month entered into the REMIND ME utility.

The doctors from Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences in Tulsa are using video technology to interact with doctors from Iraq's second largest hospital. It's a first in a new plan that could help save the lives of Iraqi children.

Doctors, like Christine Clary will be sharing ideas and expertise with Iraqi doctors caring for kids in a 655 bed hospital in Bagdad.

• Applications for licensure/registration
• Verifications
• Practice acts
• Database lists
• Duplicate wall licenses

To ensure all sportsmen have convenient access to purchasing hunting and fishing licenses, the ODWC sells licenses in more than 700 stores throughout the state. These stores include sporting goods stores, bait shops, convenience stores, and large discount centers. Licenses purchased through licensed dealers are limited to the payment methods accepted by the dealer.

Old Town Alexandria yesterday made its mark for something other than its quaint shops, maritime history and upscale restaurants.

It's now a place to get free wireless Internet service.

For the next year, anyone with a wireless device can plop down on Old Town's brick sidewalks, boot up and access the Internet at no charge.

Anyone with a wireless device can hang out on the historic area's brick sidewalks and get on the Internet as part of a yearlong initiative known as "Wireless Alexandria."

Under a new area of the President’s Management Agenda, the Office of Management and Budget will evaluate how the Office of Personnel Management and the departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Veterans Affairs meet specific criteria for improving their management and use of health IT.

In identical letters to the House and Senate Appropriations committees chairmen, Clay Johnson, Office of Management and Budget deputy director for management, asked lawmakers to limit or remove any language that hampers agencies’ abilities to spend money on cross-departmental projects.

"We're looking at the governance issues surrounding updating the reference models or extending them," said Roy Mabry, co-chairman of the Enterprise Architecture Committee's Governance Subcommittee.

“E-Authentication is moving in a new technical direction that is not centered around the development of a gateway," said Karen Evans, the Office of Management and Budget’s administrator for e-government and IT.

OMB officials said they wrote the memo to give agencies clearer guidance on the role and responsibilities of federal CIOs so IT would be more uniformly managed and to aid in a smooth transition to the next presidential administration. In a draft of the memo, the White House had stated a CIO should report to the head of the agency and "except where otherwise authorized by law, order, or waiver from the director of OMB, no other individual in any organizational component of the agency... has authorities or responsibilities that infringe upon those of the agency CIO."

While his job description hardly changes, Forman’s new title and the creation of the office marks the beginning of the administration’s implementation of the E-Government Act of 2002. President Bush signed the bill into law last December.