Toward a paperless government
When Congress passed the Government
Paperwork Elimination Act in 1998, proponents talked about the remaking
of an enormous paper-bound bureaucracy into the prototypical 21st
century organization, complete with e-signatures and the electronic
storage of documents.
If you want an inkling of what this
involves, consider that the federal government's computer systems
stretch back some four decades, thus representing what may be the
biggest IT petri dish in the world.
The deadline for complying with the bill came and went last week with
little of the fanfare that accompanied the start of the project. CNET
News.com caught up with Ray Wells, IBM's top software executive in
Washington, D.C., to gain some perspective on how close Uncle Sam is to
realizing the ambition of a hard-copy-less system....
By Charles Cooper , Staff Writer, CNET News.com, October 27, 2003
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