panel presentation How the WWW Helps the Government

How the WWW Helps the Government

Panelist:

Dr. Mark Elfont
elfont@mailgate.navsses.navy.mil
Jeffrey Graber, chair
Compuware Corp.
jeff_graber@compuware.com
301-652-1143
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov
http://www.compuware.com
Maryann Haffey
Maryann.Haffey@gsa.gov
Policy OnRamp.
http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov.
Kenneth J. Lanfear
Network Information Products Coordinator for Water Resources
U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia
lanfear@usgs.gov
Phone: 703-648-6852

Dr. Eric Loeb
loeb@ai.mit.edu
(617) 253 - 5899
Post-doctoral Associate, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.
David Lytel
dlytel@ostp.eop.gov
202.456.6037
Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House
http://www.whitehouse.gov

The WWW provides government agencies with a tremendous opportunity to improve their ability to provide information and services. This panel and our audience will debate the advantages and pitfalls of using the WWW in a government agency.

Issues to be discussed:

What do we do with usage statistics?
How does this affect user privacy?
What are you allowed to put on a server?
Who is responsible for the contents?
How do you certify servers and their contents?
Should employees be allowed to use govt. WWW resources for other than govt. business, even on their own time?
Can the WWW support creating a virual organization?
Can the WWW support facilitating participatory democracy?
Can the WWW support change management?
How to make your agency's presentation effective?
How to handle the adoption or non-adoption of Internet standards?
How tokeep pace with the high end without losing the low end?
How to maintain the boundaries between governmental and political content?