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Appendix A: E-Government Scenarios
Pages 117-124

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... Appendixes
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... For a glimpse of the potential impact of a truly digital government on the everyday life of an average citizen, consider the following hypothetical case. Margaret lackson had been quite satisfied with the local public schools for her two children, but one morning at breakfast as she was scanning her personalized summary of the news, she noticed that the school superintendent had announced that French classes were going to be eliminated at the high school because of budgetary pressures.
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... She immediately sent mail about her local school's decision to all of these people, copying the school superintendent, the high school principal, and the state and federal representatives of her district. That evening, Margaret received replies from the staff of the state official and the senator.
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... Sarah Janello is trapped in a Berkeley parking structure, but she has a wireless mobile communications device with her. Though the voice circuits are jammed with calls, she is able to send a text message informing the emergency dispatch center of her location, that her leg is pinned down by a supporting beam, and that other people appear to be trapped under the concrete.
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... These sorts of scenarios play themselves out thousands of times throughout the Bay Area that day and in the disaster's aftermath. CITIZEN ACCESS TO FEDERAL STATISTICS Individuals want access to federal statistical data.
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... The modeling company's software is able to access the underlying government databases directly, using an application programming interface offered by the government to allow nongovernment computer programs to analyze the data in new or different ways. CENSUS 2020 The decennial census is carried out, pursuant to constitutional mandate (Article 1, Section 2)
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... An unresolved challenge is what methods might be used to obtain information on homeless and other groups that could not be readily identified or located by any of the methods described above.
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