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A collaborative created to give governments an alternative to proprietary software has received its first code contributions.

After a slow start, an effort to get governments to share software code got its first five contributions this month. Part of the Government Open Code Collaborative, the repository, fed voluntarily by a group of government agencies and academia working in the model of the open-source community, Wednesday welcomed its latest software posting: RSSonate.

Weiterlesen: USA: Governments Start Sharing Open-Source Software

FDA Industry Systems (FIS), a global extranet used for food facility registration and prior notice of shipments for U.S. imports created under the Bioterrorism Act, was one of five government projects to receive an Excellence.Gov award from the Industry Advisory Council (IAC). The awards program, now in its fifth year, recognizes initiatives that demonstrate best practices in federal eGovernment implementations.

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The Nassau County, N.Y., Traffic and Parking Violations Agency (TPVA) is now accepting payments of parking tickets online, Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi announced recently. In addition the department's first amnesty program, "Last Chance to Pay," will be launched February 15th.

Weiterlesen: USA/Nassau County, N.Y.: Now Accepting Payment for Parking Tickets Online

If you’ve lost your Columbia Water & Light bill, don’t despair. Now you can pay it online or over the phone. And it gets better.

If you’ve lost every electric bill for the past three years, you can get a record of those, too, with graphs illustrating when you use the most juice.

Weiterlesen: USA: Columbia City hopes for payoff with online billing for utilities