USA: Montco revamps and promotes 'e-government' Web site
The Montgomery County commissioners are excited about their new "e-government" plan aimed at providing constituents with more electronic access to county government.
But constituents may need a spark to take advantage of the information and services that will be made available to them later this spring.
China: Hong Kong: Balancing on a thin line
“There are situations for insourcing, a time for outsourcing and a time to go for public-private partnership (PPP). We look at the situation if it’s a key area that is part of our strategic value, my sense is that it’s something we should own the day-to-day operation,” said Dickson. “In other words, whether we own the car or rent the car, we need to drive the car.”
China: Hong Kong's e-government gets a makeover
Expected to gradually re-provision the e-government services currently on the ESD portal, the OSP is a unified e-government portal. It aims to consolidate information from the Government Information Center (www.info.gov.hk) with services available on ESDlife into a single portal.
Macedonia: Government closer to citizens
"By supporting the power decentralization process and holding government sessions in various municipalities, we bring the Government closer to citizens and enable municipalities a direct contact with cabinet ministers in terms of assisting their work an development. By this move we are actually writing the new Macedonia's history. The first e-Government portal, which is to be opened in five days, we may respond to each question of citizens in cooperation with our strategic partner Microsoft," Buckovski told journalists before the session.
USA: OMB: Agency compliance with cybersecurity law improving
The percentage of agency information technology systems certified and accredited rose from 77 percent in fiscal 2004 to 85 percent in 2005, just short of an administration goal of 90 percent, OMB stated. Furthermore, the number of systems with tested contingency plans increased from 57 percent to 61 percent over that same period, the report to Congress on the implementation of the 2002 Federal Information Security Management Act found.