US federal agencies are beginning to make progress on e-government, says an official management report. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has signalled that US federal departments are finally making progress on e-government, according to the latest evaluation.
The OMB, which is responsible for the Bush administration's management agenda, has previously rated only two agencies as successfully implementing their e-government programmes. But in its latest "scorecard", issued on Wednesday, it says that three further agencies are now meeting their targets, with several others said to be making progress in e-government.
The OMB's scorecard rates progress according to a "traffic light" system. A red score means the agency has serious problems, yellow means some but not all targets have been achieved, and green means all criteria for success have been met.
Scores are given across five areas of the president's management agenda. As well as e-government they include budget and performance integration, competitive sourcing, financial performance and human resources.
Achieving green scores for e-government are the Transportation Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Small Business Administration. Under the last assessment only the Office of Personnel Management and the National Science Foundation were rated green.
One major disappointment is the Department for Homeland Security. It is failing in several areas of the management agenda, and appears to be moving backwards on e-government with its rating dropping from yellow to red.
Embarrassingly the OMB itself also failed to improve its ratings, receiving four red scores and a yellow across the management agenda.
Quelle: ZDNet, 15.07.2004
