Intergovernmental issues are covered in considerable detail on the WWW. The sites we suggest here range from generic intergovernmental relations material to the very information technology (IT) specific.

Access America: Government Information Technology Services (GITS) http://www.gits.fed.gov/htm/appndxb.html
An Appendix associated with the National Performance Review regarding goals of the Access America project.

Government Technology, May 1996 http://www.govtech.net/1996/gt/may/cover1/cover1.shtm
An article exploring intergovernmental information technology initiatives and some of the things to keep in mind when engaging in such a process.

Government Technology, September 1995 http://www.govtech.net/1995/gt/sep/cooperat.shtm
An article describing some of the initiatives of the NPR and its goals of getting government to work together.

Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF)
http://www.iitf.nist.gov/index.html
A site with several links to various documents associated with federal, state, and local information technology areas.

Intergovernmental Information Systems Advisory Council (IISAC)
http://www.admin.state.mn.us/iisac
An advisory group dedicated to covering IT issues in an intergovernmental arena.

International City/County Management Association (ICMA)
http://www.icma.org/
The ICMA homepage which links to several valuable sites and documents associated with local government concerns.

National Association of State Information Resource Executives (NA- SIRE)
http://www.nasire.org
NASIRE maintains an excellent intergovernmental relations committee that recommends policies and technologies state governments might want to consider.

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Intergovernmental Health Policy Project
http://www.ncsl.org/ihpp/
A project designed to explore the future role of intergovernmental collaboration in health care issues and the role IT can play in that future.

National Performance Review Reports
http://www.npr.gov/library/reports/it05.html
A report from the National Performance Review (NPR) dealing with electronic tax filing in an intergovernmental atmosphere.

New York State Governor’s Task Force on Information Resource Management
http://www.irm.state.ny.us/
Policies related to management of information resources in NYS are available on the Task Force Web site. State and local information system planning teams can refer to the policies online while developing and designing new systems as well as during the implementation phase when systems are being piloted, tested, and rolled out.

NT Town
http://www.sas.ab.ca/nttown/inter.html
A document describing seven themes of networked government and some of the things that must be considered when establishing such links.

Office of Information Technology, Office of Governmentwide Policy, US General Service Administration
http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/
This site offers many information technology links and the sponsor is beginning to develop several intergovernmental initiatives.

Public Technology, Inc.
http://pti.nw.dc.us/index.html
Public Technology, Inc. (PTI), is the non-profit technology R&D organization of the National League of Cities (NLC), the National Association of Counties (NACo), and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA).

The Office of Intergovernmental Solutions (OIS)
http://policyworks.gov/org/main/mg/intergov/
OIS is an office of the General Services Administration (GSA). The site contains several links to information technology sites. There are also newsletters, a guide to state IT offices, and several international IT links.