*** Democracies Online Newswire - http://www.e-democracy.org/do *** From: http://www.civicresource.com/research.html Cities on the Internet 2001: E-Government Applied CRG systematically evaluated the Web sites of all cities in the United States with a population of over 100,000 and measured over 70 different variables ranging from information delivery, to technology, e-policies, and online services. The in-depth study was conducted to help cities make decisions about how to use the Internet to better serve stakeholders and to help technology and management companies assist cities in their efforts. Here is a clip from their short Executive Summary: Highlights Information Delivery •Information is Static and Limited in Interactivity: Most cities still view their Web site as an electronic brochure, filled with static information and basic listings. While almost two- thirds (64%) of cities provide email addresses for elected officials, only 5% include user-friendly response forms to encourage and facilitate interaction. Similarly, nearly all cities post the names of elected officials (97%) and departmental listings (92%), but only 11% of cities provide interactive features for public participation in various processes (e.g., planning processes, public hearings, online meetings). •Online Access to Democratic Decision Making Information Not Widespread: Elected official meeting agendas and minutes are available online in some form at 79% and 57% of city sites respectively, leaving significant percentages (21% for agendas and 33% for meeting minutes) of cities that do NOT provide online access in any form to this most fundamental government information. Very small percentages of city sites are utilizing online video (5%) or audio (3%) for meetings of elected officials. Some more (completed) e-government reports that I ran into: Download from: http://endowment.pwcglobal.com/publications_GrantDetails.asp?GID=61 Project Title: “Commerce Comes to Government on the Desktop: E- Commerce Applications in the Public Sector” Description: This project will examine electronic commerce and other World Wide Web technologies currently available in the private and public sector. The results of this research will be insights into how government can enhance its delivery of services online. The aim of this project is to spark creativity and innovation in the use of technology in the public sector, and to leverage private sector uses of technology in the public Download from: http://endowment.pwcglobal.com/publications_GrantDetails.asp?GID=80 Project Title: “The Use of the Internet in Government Service Delivery” Description: This project will examine the use of e-commerce and the Internet in government service delivery and communications. A national study will be conducted that will include a content analysis of the best federal, state and local websites. The analysis will describe and compare the ways in which government agencies are using the Web to improve the delivery of services. NSF Digital Government Grantees From: http://www.diggov.org/grants/ [Each project has a link to the relevant project page. If you work with any of these projects, please consider using DO-WIRE to update others on your progress. SLC] Grantees The Grant Recpients are listed below in alphabetical order. Click on the names to get a detailed description. Project Title Primary Investigator Sponsoring Institution A Language-Modeling Approach to Metadata for Cross-Database Linkage and Search W. Bruce Croft University of Massachusetts, Amherst A Web-Based Query System for Disclosure-Limited Statistical Analysis of Confidential Data Alan F. Karr National Institute of Statistical Sciences Adaptive interfaces for collecting survey data from users Frederick G. Conrad New School University Citizen Access to Government Statistical Data Gary Marchionini University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Citizen Agenda-Setting in the Regulatory Process: Electronic Collection and Synthesis of Public Commentary Dr. Stuart W. Shulman Drake University Collaborative Research: Quality Graphics for Federal Statistical Summaries Alan M. MacEachren Penn State University Collecting and Using Geospatial Data in the Field: An Extensible Framework and Testbed Sarah M. Nusser Iowa State University COPLINK Center: Information and Knowledge Management for Law Enforcement Hsinchun Chen University of Arizona Database Middleware for Distributed Ontologies in State and FederalFamily & Social Services Ahmed Elmagarmid Purdue University Designing the Digital Government of the 21st Century: A Multidisciplinary Workshop Sharon S. Dawes University-SUNI at Albany DGRC Energy Data Collection Yigal Arens USC Information Sciences Institute Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests Lois Delcambre Oregon Graduate Institute Heterogeneous Reasoning Tools for Design Support John Etchemendy Stanford University Hotlinked Governance: Openness, Effectiveness and the World Wide Web in Public Organizations Todd M. La Porte George Mason University I2T: An information integration testbed for digital government Chaitanya Baru University of California San Diego Identifying Where Technology Logging and Monitoring for Increased Security End and Where Violations of Personal Privacy and Student Records Begin Virginia E. Rezmierski, Ph.D. University of Michigan Information Technology Accommodation Research Professor Clifford Nass Stanford University Issues in the Development of Spatial Spreadsheets and Browsers Hanan Samet University of Maryland Knowledge Management Over Time-Varying Geospatial Datasets Peggy Agouris University of Maine Knowledge Networking in the Public Sector Sharon S. Dawes University at Albany - SUNY Quality Graphics for Federal Statistical Summaries David W. Scott Rice University REGBASE: A Distributed Information Infrastructure for Regulation Management and Compliance Checking Kincho H. Law Stanford University Representation and Distribution of Geospatial Knowledge Raphael Malyankar Arizona State University Survey Authoring and Administration Testbed Robert Balzer Information Sciences Institute Testbed for High-Speed 'End-to-End' Communications in Support of Comprehensive Emergency Management Charles Bostian Virginia Tech Use of Internet-based Intelligent Systems for Shaping and Enhancing Citizen Participation and Service Delivery in Government John Olooney University of Georgia Very Large Scale Multidimensional Data Management and Retrieval for USGS and NIMA Imagery Aidong Zhang State University of New York at Buffalo ^ ^ ^ ^ Steven L. 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