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USA: Will IPv6 networks be ready to handle government’s needs?

The next version of Internet Protocols is essential to the Defense Department’s net-centric vision, and the government has committed to having its networks running IPv6 by 2008.
Will those networks provide the performance needed to connect a multitude of new devices with real-time communications to provide a level of situational awareness not available now? Nobody knows for sure. But for the time being, you cannot expect IPv4 speeds on an IPv6 network.
USA: Will the White House give CIOs more power in the 2011 budget?
As the White House readies the fiscal 2011 federal budget, language in some fiscal 2010 spending bills indicates a commitment from Congress and the executive branch to broaden the power of chief information officers, say some industry professionals.
A report accompanying the 2010 Veterans Affairs Department spending bill, which is awaiting full Senate consideration, calls on the department's CIO to certify a number of beleaguered information technology projects in order for them to receive funding.
USA: WiMAX Companies Receive $504 Million in Funding for Last Mile Broadband Projects
Forty companies from 22 US States received over US$504 million in grants and loans from the US Department of Agriculture's RUS Fund round two grants and loans for use in the deployment of WiMAX networks.
"The allocations of these funds are a significant win for the awardees, and for the greater broadband wireless industry. But more than that, the real big winners here are the consumers in rural communities who will benefit from affordable broadband services via WiMAX," said Ron Resnick, president and chairman of the WiMAX Forum.
USA: WiMAX Forum Uses Stimulus Funds to Establish Broadband in Rural Area
More than 300 WiMAX applications accounted for 25% of the total last mile broadband stimulus applications received by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department of Agriculture’s RUS fund, the WiMAX Forum says. Operator members of WiMAX that received funds include Clearwire, Digital Bridge Communications, Open Range Communications, and Towerstream.
WiMAX-related applicants requested $1.6 billion of the $14.2 billion available for last mile deployments. WiMAX technology can bring 4G broadband services to rural areas, which are usually the last priority for wireless carriers. Rural broadband development will help bring economic gains to underdeveloped areas by bringing non-farm related jobs to the market. It also allows for such digital services as eGovernment, distance learning, and remote healthcare.
USA: WiMax moves (slowly) toward implementation
WiMax broadband technology has made some important steps toward real-world implementation, but many customers may be waiting for assurances of multivendor interoperability before investing in the new wireless equipment.
The WiMAX Forum, an industry group promoting the adoption of the new technology, returned to the SuperComm trade show this week to host demonstrations of member companies’ products.
USA: Wireless Communities Best Practices Finalists Selected

To pay tribute to local governments implementing broadband-wireless applications and services for cities and communities, the Wireless Internet Institute announces 10 finalists for the second annual Wireless Communities Best Practices Awards. Winners will be announced at a special ceremony at the W2i Digital Cities Convention in Philadelphia Dec. 5--6, 2006.
Broadband-wireless connectivity in countries around the world is fostering social and economic development for underserved communities and enabling better city and regional management. Five best-practices awards for Technology Innovation, Community Momentum Building, Digital Inclusion, E-Government Applications, and Neighborhood Portals honor the exemplary efforts of local governments and affiliated organizations around the world who are realizing the promise of broadband-wireless solutions for their communities.
USA: Wireless net to test agencies' mettle
Three agencies team to develop integrated wireless network
Three federal agencies are moving forward on a major wireless project that could test law enforcement's ability to work together and industry's ability to present a solution based on tough requirements.
USA: Wireless wallets come closer to reality
Imagine being able to pay for a song on the jukebox, buy a bag of groceries or gain admission to a sports arena by simply waving your phone by a machine.
With consumers in Asia and Europe already using their mobile phones to pay for soda and parking fees, the long-discussed concept of the wireless wallet could be slowly creeping closer to reality in the U.S.
USA: Wisconsin law bars forced RFID implants

Measure takes effect this week; other states considering limits on technology
Wisconsin this week will become one of the first states to ban the forcible implantation of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into humans.
The ban begins on Wednesday, when legislation signed on May 30 by Gov. James Doyle goes into effect. The act dictates that no person may force another to have a microchip implanted in his body. Violators face fines of $10,000 each day until the chip is removed.
USA: Wisconsin seeks plan for statewide HIE
Wisconsin’s Health and Family Services Department has issued a request for proposals seeking consulting services to support its statewide health information exchange vision.
The provider of consulting services will help the department and the governor’s eHealth Board complete a project to design “a model and architecture for a state-level HIE entity and state-level HIE business and technical services in Wisconsin,” according to the RFP.
USA: Wisconsin to Get Serious about E-Government
A “report card” issued in November by a Washington, DC, think tank slammed Wisconsin’s efforts at implementing electronic government initiatives. But projects currently underway in Madison could raise that score, according to the state’s CIO, Matt Miszewski.
Miszewski, who works within the Department of Administration (DOA) after the Department of Electronic Government was folded into that agency, also said the Center for Economic Development (CFED) missed the mark on some existing electronic government projects in the state when it gave the state a rank of 46th when it comes to electronic public services.
USA: Wisconsin verbietet RFID-Implantate wider Willen

Der US-Bundesstaat hat ein Gesetz erlassen, das mögliche Fehlentwicklungen im Ansatz unterbindet.
Verbraucherschutzorganisationen warnen schon lange vor dem missbräuchlichen Einsatz der Funkfrequenz-Identifikation, englisch: Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). Allmählich beschäftigt sich auch der Gesetzgeber mit dem Thema - zumindest in den USA. Dort untersagt der Bundesstaat Wisconsin demnächst per Gesetz die Implementierung von RFID-Chips in die menschliche Haut - es sei denn, der Träger stimmt ausdrücklich zu.
USA: Wisconsin: Chippewa Valley receives $11 million broadband grant
The Chippewa Valley is getting a boost to its broadband.
A press conference was held this afternoon to announce our area will receive $11 million in federal grant money to improve communication services. The money will be used to lay fiber-optic cable to connect local government, schools and public safety.
"We currently do a lot with video distance learning, some with online learning, we've been limited in the past by the amount of work we can do because of the lack of bandwidth," says Ross Wilson, CESA 10 Director of Education Technology. "This will give increased bandwidth to a number of school districts."
USA: Wisconsin: City, county looking into sharing building
Combining services has become a much-used phrase among local governments, but members of the Eau Claire city-county Joint Commission on Shared Services Initiatives hope to determine whether that aim can become a reality.
The commission has decided to study a proposal that would combine services of the city, county and school district in one government building, an effort to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and break down barriers separating those entities.
USA: Wisconsin: Gov. Doyle establishes new eHealth Board for state-wide information exchange
Developing a framework for sharing patient medical records was set into motion Tuesday with the signing of an >executive order by Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, creating the >Wisconsin Relay of Electronic Data (WIRED) for Health Board. The goal is to establish by June 1, 2010, a structure for statewide exchange of health information records; meanwhile some experts have concerns as to the cost, timeline and sustainability of the business and operational model.
Wisconsin is receiving $9.44 million in federal Recovery Act funds to support efforts to create a state heath information exchange. The estimated cost to establish a fully operating health information exchange statewide was set at $1.2 billion by the Finance Committee of the original Wisconsin e-Health Board, according to Peter Stombom, former CIO for Meriter Hospital in Madison and a founder and past Chair of the national CIO healthcare association CHIME.
USA: Wisconsin: Patients receive care from afar via telemedicine
As a patient waits at Marshfield Clinic Wausau Center's oncology department, the pharmacy technician mixes the chemotherapy drugs under the watchful eye of a pharmacist in Weston -- via video conferencing.
Marshfield Clinic and other health care systems are embracing telemedicine to enable pharmacists and physicians to provide care from afar.
USA: Wisconsin: Recovery Act incentives help push transition to electronic medical records
Hospitals and doctors were given a mix of incentives and penalties in last year's Recovery Act to speed the move from paper to electronic health records. The incentives, and the prospect of penalties, may be working. Health care systems throughout Wisconsin are scrambling to meet requirements that would entitle them to tens of millions of dollars in additional payments from Medicare and Medicaid.
USA: Wisconsin: Rural areas to benefit from $655,000 grant to St. Joe’s
For the Herald - St. Joseph’s Hospital has received a $655,000 grant from the Federal Communications Commission’s Rural Health Care Pilot Program to enhance broadband network communication for telemedicine and healthcare technology. Kevin Groskreutz, Information Services Coordinator at St. Joseph’s Hospital, secured the grant which will assist local multi-agency group efforts to connect the “information highways” throughout the region and state.
Once completed, Chippewa Falls will be a hub for rural communities in Northwest Wisconsin to connect with other existing networks more efficiently than ever before.
USA: Wisconsin: Sheboygan County, city put shared services back on table
Sheboygan County and the City of Sheboygan are willing to give another go to the long-dormant effort to combine government services between the two entities as a way to save money and improve efficiency.
The City/County Shared Services Committee met Thursday for the first time since last June, and members and other attendees said this time, they really want to get shared service efforts on such issues as combined emergency dispatch and a jointly-operated human resource department off the dime.
USA: Wisconsin: State budget contains "disappointing" $10 million for electronic medical records
Given the tens of millions in private- and public-sector investments that probably are needed for the full adoption of electronic medical records, and the hundreds of millions that might be needed to complete the state's overall eHealth Initiative, Gov. Jim Doyle's original $30 million proposal for EMRs was seen as a modest first step in moving Wisconsin healthcare providers away from paper charts.
But the downsized $10 million commitment that remains in the 2007-09 state budget, which calls for $57.2 billion in overall spending over the next two years, strikes some as downright paltry.