Essential Federal Information Services

Federal Information Management - Context and Effects

In spite of their common legal basis public sector organizations have developed a plethora of diverse forms and service descriptions for similar or even identical citizen services. As a consequence for citizens as well as for businesses it is difficult to understand the wording of forms and the procedures necessary for citizen and business services. Public administration cannot profit from syne...

Federal information policy: Putting it all together

1998 Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture NFAIS Annual Conference February 24, 1998 Philadelphia, PA Kent Smith, Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine © 1998 Kent Smith Good morning and thank you for the honor to present this lecture in the memory of Miles Conrad, first president of NFAIS and one of its original founders. The lecture series is a fitting memory to a man of vision, strength, dev...

National decision and Information System and Services (ISS)

ISS which may be interpreted as transparency in information delivery is of high importance in personal life as well as in ruling system. It may be stated that these two are two sides of the same coin. If there is a real intention to govern people in a real democracy, then ISS is well-defined and developed in the country, and if ISS is well-defined, then it can be concluded that real resolutenes...

Selling Federal Reserve Payment Services: One Price Fits All?

I n a large modern economy, there is a vast and constant movement of funds in the conduct of commerce and finance. The channels through which these funds move constitute the payment system, which, ultimately, forms a network connecting all participants in the economy. In dollar value, the bulk of this movement is not in cash but in the form of instructions for the crediting and debiting of acco...

Federal policy leading the way in emergency medical services.