E-government Services
Perhaps no legacy of the Clinton Administration is more important to the average citizen than the E-government initiative to make government services and information available on the Internet. Here is a growing list of services.
Airport Delay Reports from the FAA
Internet users can get near-real-time status information for 40 major U.S. airports. The FAA hopes to increase coverage to 100 airports in the future.
Every month, over a half-million Internet users visit the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Web site where they find a daily-updated selection of thousands of highly affordable homes and apartments offered by HUD plus nine other government agencies.
With its TreasuryDriect Web Site, the Bureau of the Public Debt combines E-government and E-commerce to allow Internet investors from individual to banks buy and manage T-bills and bonds online.
The U.S. Postal Service has just made one of the many hassles of moving -- getting your mail to follow you -- a little easier by initiating an Internet online change of address service.
Using a secured Web site consumers can now file complaints of Internet fraud online. The Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) is a joint program of the Justice Department and the FBI.
Americans can now file complaints of mismanagement or violations of the tax laws, rules, or regulations by employees of the Internal Revenue Service via the Internet as a service of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA).
Get real-time ozone level reports for your area, plus longer term reports on all sorts of pollution online from these EPA E-government sites.
View real-time displays of the tracks of the MIR and International Space Stations, plus the Hubble Space Telescope and many other satellites from this new NASA service. A very educational and flat-out interesting site.
The National Parks Service enters the E-government arena with a pair of Web sites designed to help vacationers find exactly the right park or parks to visit.
The Social Security Administration has made it possible -- even easy -- for Medicare beneficiaries to order a replacement Medicare card over the Internet.
A Web site where you can sort of wander around the U.S. Treasury looking for forgotten money. You will try this. You know you will.
Around 26 million Americans are the rightful owners of over $10 billion in unclaimed property held by state governments. If some of it belongs to you, the states want you to have it. Learn more here.
How much radiation was absorbed by pilots of the SR-71 spy plane while flying at high altitudes? Learn this and other once top-secret information from the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).
Internet users can view and even bid to adopt wild horses and burros online at the BLM's Wild Horse & Burro Internet Adoption Web Site. Internet adoptions are held periodically throughout the year with the next bidding scheduled in June or July.
Reference Links
United States Government Electronic Commerce Policy
News and progress reports on government efforts to advance and protect business on the Internet.
"Imagine a democracy where ordinary citizens help decide what laws need to be passed and how they should be written." Federal Computer Week - 05/22/00
This project of Georgetown University invites the public to offer suggestions of how E-government should be built.
The House of Representatives approves a bill blocking fees for accessing the Internet and ending forever the infamous myth of bill 602P and Congressman Tony Schnell. From your About.com Guide
President Clinton on April 30, 2000, announced new proposed legislation designed to protect the financial privacy of American consumers. From your About.com Guide.
Asking for $9 million to get the center going, President Clinton proposes a combined Internet and E-commerce effort to defeat Web site hackers. From your About.com Guide.
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