Author: Gordon Press Publishers
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Published: 1995-07
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ISBN-13: 9780849074431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James W. Cortada
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-11-06
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 019029017X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada completes his sweeping survey of the effect of computers on American industry, turning finally to the public sector, and examining how computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in government and education. This book goes far beyond generalizations about the Information Age to the specifics of how industries have functioned, now function, and will function in the years to come. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computings and telecommunications role in the entire public sector, including federal, state, and local governments, and in K-12 and higher education. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada examines the unique ways different public sector industries adopted new technologies, showcasing the manner in which their innovative applications influenced other industries, as well as the U.S. economy as a whole. He builds on the surveys presented in the first volume of the series, which examined sixteen manufacturing, process, transportation, wholesale and retail industries, and the second volume, which examined over a dozen financial, telecommunications, media, and entertainment industries. With this third volume, The Digital Hand trilogy is complete, and forms the most comprehensive and rigorously researched history of computing in business since 1950, providing a detailed picture of what the infrastructure of the Information Age really looks like and how we got there. Managers, historians, economists, and those working in the public sector will appreciate Cortada's analysis of digital technology's many roles and future possibilities.
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative Appropriations
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 1438
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: M. Granger Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-10
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1136526757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The elimination of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) in 1995 came during a storm of budget cutting and partisan conflict. Operationally, it left Congress without an institutional arrangement to bring expert scientific and technological advice into the process of legislative decisionmaking. This deficiency has become increasingly critical, as more and more of the decisions faced by Congress and society require judgments based on highly specialized technical information. Offering perspectives from scholars and scientists with diverse academic backgrounds and extensive experience within the policy process, Science and Technology Advice for Congress breaks from the politics of the OTA and its contentious aftermath. Granger Morgan and Jon Peha begin with an overview of the use of technical information in framing policy issues, crafting legislation, and the overall process of governing. They note how, as nonexperts, legislators must make decisions in the face of scientific uncertainty and competing scientific claims from stakeholders. The contributors continue with a discussion of why OTA was created. They draw lessons from OTA's demise, and compare the use of science and technological information in Europe with the United States. The second part of the book responds to requests from congressional leaders for practical solutions. Among the options discussed are expanded functions within existing agencies such as the General Accounting or Congressional Budget Offices; an independent, NGO- administrated analysis group; and a dedicated successor to OTA within Congress. The models emphasize flexibility--and the need to make political feasibility a core component of design.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007-10-06
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 0309103932
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social Security Administration Electronic Service Provision examines the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) proposed e-government strategy and provides advice on how the SSA can best deliver services to its constituencies in the future. The assessment by the Committee on the Social Security Administration's E-Government Strategy and Planning for the Future was based on (1) its examination of the SSA's current e-government strategy, including technological assumptions, performance measures and targets, planned operational capabilities, strategic requirements, and future goals; (2) its consideration of strategies, assumptions, and technical and operational requirements in comparable public- and private-sector institutions; and (3) its consideration of the larger organizational, societal, and technological context in which the SSA operates.
Author: Helen Bolderson
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the delivery and governance of statutory cash benefits for those of pension age, and for people who are incapacitated, unemployed or lone parents. Gives details on how and where claims are initiated, the nature and treatment of any evidence required and the means by which it is verified, the personnel involved in making decisions on claims, how payments are made and reviewed, and the routes to "exit" from benefit. Countries are treated separately.