E-government has also virtually disappeared from governors' State of the State speeches -- a far cry from just a few years ago when not talking about it meant announcing you were a political dinosaur. Columnist Tom Davies summed up the prevailing mood: "From the beginning, e-gov was never really on track to produce a revolution in state and local government performance."
"The state will not be able to achieve a statewide IT vision until it coordinates the planning that guides each department and agency with that vision." -- The Governor's Task Force on Government Technology Policy and Procurement, 1994.
Launching a new business is challenging for anybody. But in Utah, registering that new business with the state was time-consuming and frustrating. To complete registration, new companies were required to physically file documents with up to seven different government entities. The process often took weeks or months.
Not anymore.
A key component of the E-Government Act of 2002 outlined the sponsorship of on-going dialogue between state and local governments, the general public, and the private and non-profit sectors in order to collaborate on the use of information technology to improve the delivery of government services.
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“The board is working feverishly on the formats,” said Curt Barker, co-chairman of the PIV project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The board’s report is due Friday, he said.