Provides information on Internet and electronic dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) activities in the executive branch of the federal government. Emphases is on fiscal year 1994 through 1996 expenditures for Internet and BBS activities, the number of www sites and electronic dial-up BBSs, and the number of employees with government-provided Internet e-mail and www access. In addition, the report provides information on the benefits agencies associate with these activities and on guidance for Internet activities. Discusses the issue of employee misuse of government-provided Internet resources at some agencies. Charts and tables.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
BBSes range from small hobbyist systems with only a few files or message areas to large commercially run boards with numerous access lines and features. Arrangement of this directory is by state; a master list and a topic index help provide access to 10,000 bulletin boards. Entries include contact and personnel details and a brief description. Anno
Provides guidance on how to build and use of a computer bulletin board system (BBS). Includes separate chapters on hardware and software selection and lists the major BBS packages available for today's microcomputers.
Community Informatics is developing as an approach for linking economic and social development efforts at the community level to the opportunities that information and communication's technologies present. Areas such as SMEs and electronic commerce, community and civic networks, electronic democracy and online participation are among a few of the areas affected. Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies is an introduction to the discipline of community informatics. Issues such as trends, controversies, challenges and opportunities facing the community application of information and communications technologies into the millennium are studied.