The President's E-Government Initiatives

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The President's E-Government Initiatives represent a combined effort among government agencies to make government citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-based. Agencies plan to achieve these goals by transforming traditional government roles to meet citizens' online needs. The initiatives are at the core of the President's Management Agenda (PMA).

Using the Internet to create a citizen-centered Government
The explosive growth of the Internet has forever changed the relationship between businesses and their customers. The Internet is also transforming the way citizens want to interact with the Government.

Citizens are no longer interested in searching for information by agency function. They now want programs and services grouped by their specific needs rather than by individual departments.

The President believes that providing access to information and services is only the first step in E-Government. In order to make Government truly "citizen-centered," agencies will:

• work together to consolidate similar functions around the needs of citizens and businesses,
• use the Internet to transform the government around customer needs,
• conduct transactions with the public along secure web-enabled systems that use portals, such as FirstGov, to link common applications and protect privacy,
• give citizens the ability to go online and interact with all levels of government that provide similar information and services around citizen needs rather than agency boundaries.

Related Links

• E-Government's role in Implementing the PMA
• E-Government Initiative links