The Smithsonian Institution’s overall score plunged the farthest, falling from green to red in the quarterly report on agency progress in meeting the five areas of the PMA. Along with the Smithsonian, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of Personnel Management and the Small Business Administration earned red scores.
USA: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention Launches New Home Page and Other Web Site Improvements
The redesigned site has an improved layout, a more powerful search engine, and other features to help people locate needed health and science information more efficiently. The CDC Web site averages nine million visits a month, with an average of 37 million pages viewed monthly.
"To have easy and smooth access to the organisation’s knowledge database means a lot for the staff. They can borrow the best practices in the field of administrative excellence which were previously applied successfully in any other organisational unit," he said.
Weiterlesen: UAE: Dubai Muncipality Launches E-Gate To Promote Organisational Learning
The ID card, launched a couple of years ago storing cardholder fingerprints, will add the second biometric identifier in mid-2007, according to Dubai’s Xpress newspaper. That’s when the UAE will also begin enrolling the bulk of its expatriates, who do most of the work in this Persian Gulf state. An estimated 80% of the UAE’s population of 5 million is made up of foreign workers. These include workers from the Indian subcontinent, who mainly do manual labor.
The Road Show, which Kicked off at Dubai Municipality, aims to encourage online payments for government transactions through the Prepaid Card and runs from April 22 to May 17, 2007.