Yet again Federal e-Gov is under budget cut threats. With the FY05 budget just signed, looking forward to FY06 sees even less money flowing into the GSA e-Gov office.
The problem remains that no-one really understands what "e-Gov" is. I've heard certain Federal executives quoted as claiming that e-Gov captures everything the government does. The problem is not that this position is inaccurate but that it's absolutely correct.
e-Gov is an amorphous buzzword dreamed up by technology lobbyists eager to sell their goods to a government desperate to find efficiencies wherever it can. But "e-Gov" is not a project unto itself. At best, it's a technology oversight activity.
Expect to see the GSA e-Gov office folded into OMB, and for the OMB e-Gov office being subsumed into a broader OMB technology policy shop within the next year. Don't believe me? The Navy's already done it, and where DOD goes, so goes the government.
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