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Government Services Information Infrastructure Management
Government Services Information Infrastructure Management
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The GSII is an enlightened attempt by the Clinton/Gore Administration to form a "virtual government" crossing agency boundaries to interact more closely with industry and with the public, as well as with state and local government, to greatly improve the delivery of government services. The GSII is that portion of the NII used to link government and its services, enable virtual agency concepts, protect privacy, and support emergency preparedness needs.
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used to link government and its services, enable virtual agency concepts, protect privacy, and support emergency preparedness needs. It was also recognized that better integration and coordination were required not only across federal government
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citizen could, in this fashion, receive multiple services such as social security, food stamps, tax preparation assistance, information on the national park system, and so on through a single interaction wad one agency. The attributes of an effective GSTI must include t~rnely infusion of appropriate IT to meet requirements; coordination of infiastn~cture across government requirements and with the private sector; effectiveness, while also allowing for innovation and flexibility to meet specific needs; information surety to guard citizens' rights and privacy while also providing for national security needs; cost-effectiveness of IT acquisition and development while also encouraging a competitive technological environment; ubiquitous accessibility to all citizens, including those with disabilities; ease of use for locating government information or for service delivery, transparent (to the users integration of the GSH portion of the NI!
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Current federal coordination mechanisms are a result of the Brooks ADP Act of 1965 which was passed In an era characterized by mainframe computers when time-shared processing was the primary technique for managing scarce IT resources. Reflecting the centralized technology, the decisional and oversight responsibility for planning, acquinng, and managing 1rr was taken from the heads of the venous executive agencies and vested in the administrator for general services.
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requirements driven by these other mission applications as well as those that represent government services to its customers and Heir non-government requirements, is essential to making the government work better and cost less. The Federal Internetworking Requirements Pane!
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Affinity groups could establish a common perspective for evaluating new technologies, eliminating unwarranted redundancies, interacting with venous affinity subgroups or working groups, and sharing data, information, and knowledge about their enterprise or business area and how IT promotes effectiveness. By focusing on common requirements and solutions In this manner, affinity group activities can result in application~riven standardization for supporting important common functions, for setting priorities for new tasks, and for understanding the minimum capabilities needed to perform common business functions.
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It is timely that the Congress and the Administration are now committed to telecommunications reform, as this w'll help lay the foundation for resolving some of the GSH versus Nit issues in the future. Key issues that need to be addressed for successful GSH and Nit integration include procurement reform, key and certificate management infrastructure, electronic signature, intellectual property, common camer status and open access for the network and information service providers, standards setting, and cost recovery for shared infrastructures .
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and ensuring that the GSIl is an integral component of We NIl. Lastly, continued dialogue on the direction of development and deployment of the GSIT especially relative to its superset, the NIT via the WWW implementation of We GSIT Plan, is needed to ensure convergence of these two very important national resources and to achieve We optimum "range of ~nteroperability" and We maximum benefit Nat one could expect Mom such a complex and diverse infrastructure.
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