E-Government and E-Commerce Resources and Articles

Resources

• E-government: City Halls Without Walls (234 KB)
  The National League of Cities (NLC) and Public Technology, Inc. (PTI) have created this resource guide to help local elected officials understand and navigate the fast-changing pace of electronic government.
• E-Government: The Next American Revolution (536 KB)
On February 21, 2001, The Council for Excellence in Government unveiled a plan for achieving full electronic government in the United States.
• IBM Center for Electronic Communities
• Internet Guide for Small Local Governments
• National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (NECCC) - resources, best practices, contacts, and conferences
• Public Technology, Inc.
  A free guide to Internet use for local government officials is available through the Local Government Environmental Assistance Network (LGEAN). The guide, entitled "Getting Online: A Guide to the Internet for Small Town Leaders," explains in plain English the power, organization, and tools of the Internet. Produced by the National Center for Small Communities, the guide demonstrates how local governments can use the Internet to make major contributions to public information and customer service. For more information, or to order a copy, click on the following.
• Miami-Dade County e-government Web site
• Untangle the Web: Delivering Municipal Services Through the Internet (1.2 MB), Center for Technology in Government, June 2001

Articles

• Marketing ideas for promoting e-government (Civic.com, June 2000)
• e-Cities: Twenty-first century thinking for small town living (290 KB)(Kentucky Science and Technology Council, May 1999, Contractor Paper 99-4)
• Marrying Payment Systems to the Web (civic.com, August 1999)
  Governments must weave through a policy and technology maze to develop systems to move payments from e-commerce Web pages to government coffers.
• Web commerce from the ground up (Infoworld, August 2, 1999)
  Test Center Action Plan.