U.S. Government Resources

General Sites

CampaignMoney

A searchable database website free to use of all political contributions made to candidates at the national level from 1999 - present

Government Contracts Won

A searchable database website free to use of all contracts awarded by the defense department from 2000 - present

Digital Economy 2000 Report

Executive Summary plus links to full report.

Resources for Governments and electronic commerce

From Computerworld.

President's Information Technology Advisory Committee Interim Report to the President

Interim Report on future directions for Federal support of research and development in high performance computing, communications, information technology, and the Next Generation Internet.

Government Information Technology Services

Includes Access America, a report on "reinventing government" using information technology.

The States Inventory Project

The States Inventory Project is an on-line clearinghouse that tracks how states are planning, regulating, deploying, and using their information infrastructures.

High Performance Computing and Communications Web server.

Part of the National Coordination Office

Public Access to the Internet.

A conference summary.

Computing Research.

Social impact of driving information technology and the information industry forward.

Federal Communications Law Journal.

Co-published by the Federal Communications Bar Association and the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington.

Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy

The Whitepaper on Information Infrastructure Assurance is especially interesting.

CapWeb

Guide to US Congress.

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Executive Branch & Agencies

Technology for Economic Growth: President's Progress Report

A summary of the Clinton Administration's technology-related achievements.

Government Printing Office

The government's bit bucket.

EDGAR

Electronic Data gathering Archiving and Retreival project: A heterogeneous financial data archive that contains all forms filed electronically to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by domestic publicly traded corporations.

Central Banking Resource Center

Links to various central banks, ministries of finance and economics, etc.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

NTIA is involved in a broad range of activities whose goal is to extend the benefits of the Information Superhighway.

Census Bureau

As the "Factfinder for the Nation" the Census Bureau collects data about the people and economy of the United States and produces a wide variety of statistical data products including printed reports, statistical briefs, and computer files on tape and CD ROM media.

Federal Repository Library Gateways

Connection starting point for connecting to GPO Access Online Databases. Get GPO literature, the Congressional Record, Federal Record, Bills, etc.

The Common Carrier Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission

The Bureau pages provide user-friendly access to recently-released items, as well as information about the Bureau and descriptions of current proceedings.

Office of Technology Assessment

Archive of now-defunct office.

Defense Message Systems Homepage

The primary objective of the DMS Program is to reduce cost and staffing while maintaining existing levels of service and security of messaging within the DoD.

Paperwork Reduction Act Information

The Internet Multicasting Service project to put U.S. Patent and SEC documents on-line and an anaylsis of the Paperwork Reduction Act. This demonstration project has been terminated but data still remains online.

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Congressional Resources

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

Its missions is to provide the Congress with economic and budgetary information.

Joint Economic Committee

The Joint Economic Committee was established soon after World War II to provide economic analysis to the Congress as a foundation for fiscal policy.

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National Information Infrastructure

Harvard Information Infrastructure Project

The Information Infrastructure Project in Harvard's Science, Technology and Public Policy Program investigates and elucidates issues around the emerging digital information infrastructure.

Internet Law and Policy Forum

The Internet Law and Policy Forum provides to the world a neutral venue in which to develop solutions to the challenging legal and policy questions of the Internet.

Whitehouse materials on the National Information Infrastructure:

• Browse a hypertext of The Agenda for Action.
• Search the full text of the NII Agenda for Action.
• Browse releases by the Information Infrastructure Task Force.

Information Infrastructure Task Force

NII Virtual Library

At the National Institute of Standards

The Global Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Cooperation

A report by the US government's Information Infrastructure Task Force.

Collaborations in Internet Security

Working group to examine Federal information security technology.

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NSFNET

Merit Network, Inc

Number of useful links such as "Overview of current network architecture", all the NAPs, etc.

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Government Regulation

Alliance for Competitive Communication

Sponsored by an "ad-hoc coalition of the seven regional Bell operating systems," this site contains items about telecommunications deregulation.

Internet Telephony Consortium

Lots of information about Internet telephone.

Voice On Internet Coalition

An organization to lobby for voice telephony on the Internet.

Consumer Project on Technology

A project involving info tech policy issues run through the Taxpayer Assets Project.

Bell Atlantic Report on Impact of Internet on LECs

According to this report, Internet use has had a significant effect on local telephone switch capacity. (3/96)

Univeral Access to E-Mail

A RAND report by Robert H. Anderson, Tora K. Bikson, Sally Ann Law, Bridger M. Mitchell (1995)