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Business Process Reengineering Assessment Guide
This guide from the Electronic College of Process Innovation provides the Government Accounting Office evaluators and other federal auditors with a generic framework to assess how well federal organizations are managing the risks associated with reengineering. The guide is not compliance-oriented and is not intended to prescribe specific steps for conducting a reengineering project. Rather, it represents a high-level view of what most reengineering practitioners consider to be important stepping stones to successful reengineering.

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Effective Technology Planning for the Technology Literacy Challenge
This is a guide for creating an effective technology plan for a school district. The guide contains information on planning and implementing a technology plan, performance assessment, staff competencies, technology infrastructure inventory and goals, and funding resources.

Information Technology Planning and Assessment Guidelines
This Washington State Department of Information Services guide helps with preparation and management of an agency's business and technology plans, investment priorities, current projects, and technology infrastructure. The Information Technology Planning and Assessment Guidelines provides a practical approach to making technology investment decisions, introduces tools used to assist in the process, and includes a discussion of critical success factors.

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Planning a District-Wide Technology Infrastructure
This online workshop for school and district leaders can help you "examine the critical questions, guiding principles, and essential technologies involved with creating school networks." Through six sessions, each one requiring tasks and varied assigned readings, participants should be able to address three main questions: What are your goals for technology? How will you assess your progress towards those goals? What technical information should you understand in order to implement your plans?

True Partnerships: The Key to Technology Infrastructure Challenges
A public-private partnership between Rider University and Bell Atlantic Corporation produced a next generation infrastructure for the campus. The "$4 million state-of-the- art campuswide fiber-optic information and communication network offering an array of video, voice, and data services to all faculty, staff, and students" was a new way of doing business for the university and offered a multitude of benefits.

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Putting Government Information at Citizens' Fingertips
This article from EnVision, a quarterly science magazine from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), discusses how researchers are building the first ever Digital Government Information Integration Testbed that "provides powerful new Web-based tools that let researchers and citizens seamlessly access, integrate, analyze, and display the vast storehouse of government information right from their desktops."

Opening up GIS Borders: HUD taps ESRI to Make Federal Geographic Data Open to State Governments
This article from the Federal Computer Week discusses the decision of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to make its GIS data available on the Internet in order to aid state and local governments in their community development work.

Setting New Boundaries: Agencies Expand the Reach of GIS Via the Web and Handheld Computers
This Federal Computer Week article discusses the availability of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data to government agencies and citizens as compared to the access limited to specialists before. "GIS applications are getting out of the office, venturing afield to directly record information using handheld computers and wireless communications to instantly update bodies of knowledge."

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Virtual Private Network: to Protect and to Serve
This article from Federal Computer Week discusses the virtual private network (VPN) technology used by government agencies to share information without compromising security. Example of the Justice Department's Regional Information Sharing System (RISS) that "enables officers from more than 5,000 state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies to securely access criminal intelligence databases."

Navy Intranet Sets Sail
This Federal Computer Week article discusses an upcoming large Navy Intranet project. "The $6.9 billion Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) is supposed to replace up to 200 disparate networks within the Navy and Marine Corps with one seamless network."

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Planning and Creating a Government Web Site: Learning from the Experience of US States
This article from the Institute for Development Policy and Management at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom discusses best practices in government Web sites creation. It analyzes US state government Web sites regarding site design, content, layout, advanced display feature, semantics, etc. There are also reflections on lessons learned and advice to governments designing Web sites.

Web-based Applications and/or Networked Legacy Systems
This paper generated by the Center for Technology in Government at University at Albany discusses some technical aspects of Web-to-legacy integration and how to avoid possible traps. Throughout this report you will see how the evolution of linking legacy systems and databases to Web-based applications is increasingly needed to do business in the public sector.

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Turning Data into Understanding: A Field Guide to Knowledge Support Technology
This PDF document, produced by the NYS Forum for Information Resource Management, is designed to "help government decision makers determine whether knowledge support technology tools can and should be used when they are faced with accessing the vast amount of data found in states' various electronic systems."

Education, Outreach, and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
EOT-PACI is an organization dedicated to making emerging technologies accessible to learners and educators at all levels, and to forging an inclusive computing community. The mission of EOT-PACI "is to develop human resources through the innovative use of emerging information technologies to understand and solve problems." EOT-PACI is a joint effort of the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). Both groups are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and are charged with creating a national computing infrastructure to support the next wave of scientific discovery.

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Archives II: The NARA Project at the San Diego Supercomputer Center
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), in collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is developing prototypes for collection-based persistent archive infrastructure.

New Consortium Brings New Technologies Into Crisis Management and Other Sectors
This article in Access Online, a Web-based newsletter from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) discusses an international collaboration among government agencies, academia, and the private sector. It looks at "how cutting-edge information technologies can help organizations prepare for, respond to, and mitigate disasters, including natural disasters and terrorist attacks involving chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons."

Persistent Digital Archives: A Knowledge-Based Approach
This article in Access Online, a Web-based newsletter from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) discusses the unique collaboration between the SanDiego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), the California Digital Library (CDL), and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to develop a common architecture for digital archives.

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