Top 10 Applications For E-Government In Planning

19 September 2002 - 11:00am

PLANetizen editor Chris Steins writes in Planning Magazine about the top 10 ways e-government can be applied to the field of planning and development.

"Broadly, e-government is anything from responding to citizens' questions via e-mail to accepting payment for government services over the Internet. In this article Chris Steins proposes a taxonomy of e-government as it relates to planning, and a description of its top 10 applications... How can you build or expand e-government for urban planning? The first step is to evaluate which of the strategies would produce the biggest return for your agency." Editor's note: A copy of this article is also available at:http://www.urbaninsight.com/virtual/egov0902.html

Source: Planning Magazine, September 19, 2002
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