Government Technology

Governor Judy Martz today announced that Brian Wolf, Montana’s first Chief Information Officer, would be leaving state government in June for a position in the private sector. Wolf was hired by the Department of Administration…

Three Idaho agencies collaborated with Access Idaho, the state’s official Web site, to develop a single Web site where motor carrier firms and companies with fleet vehicles can take care of state and industry-related business around the clock.

At an accelerating pace, federal and state highways across much of the United States are being fitted with critter-crossing technology.

GovBenefits.gov includes information on a variety of benefit and assistance programs for veterans, seniors, students, teachers, children, people with disabilities, dependents, disaster victims, farmers, caregivers, job seekers, prospective homeowners and more.

"I’m absolutely overjoyed with this system in comparison to what we had before," says acting state Revenue Director Don Hoffman. "I’m more than happy to showcase this system."

The main goal of the strategy is to achieve a highly effective, customer-focused public sector capable of delivering top quality services to citizens and businesses.

The business entity annual report on-line filing service is the result
of an
alliance between state government and the private sector.

Whether one is searching for a new place to hike, hunt or fish, trying to figure out who owns a particular piece of land or researching water rights, NRIS has the answer.

From rationing street salt to sending out daily e-mail messages on parking rules, once-lumbering bureaucracies are adopting the latest scientific advances as a means of cutting costs, increasing efficiency as well as ensuring greater accountability after a series of corporate and government corruption scandals.

"We have an economy and a country that runs on-line any more," says Supreme Court Justice James Nelson, who chairs the court’s commission on technology. "There is certainly no reason why that shouldn’t apply to our society’s judicial needs as well."