Press
Release
March
27, 2000 Olympia Washington.
The public is invited to attend Forum 2000
on May 23-24 at the Saint Martin's College in Lacey. This year's Forum theme is e-Government:
Services on Demand.
Forum 2000 will address many of the
challenges confronting state technology leaders as they try to implement
today's digital government. These challenges include:
- Providing direct government services over the Internet to the
citizens of the State of Washington in a way that saves citizens time and
money and reduces the costs of service delivery.
- Using technology to deliver state services 24 hours a day, seven
days a week; Service delivery that goes beyond 8 to 5, Monday thru Friday.
- Forming service partnerships with Federal, County, and Municipal
governments so that service delivery to citizens is straight forward,
comprehensive, and not confused by the complexity of governmental
organizational structures.
- Performing Internet-based financial transactions that ensure the
security of citizen and State resources.
- Providing access to the users of digital government services and
technical support to the providers of digital government services.
- Finding, maintaining, and retaining a skilled government workforce.
- Providing citizen access to public records and services while at
the same time preserving their rights to privacy and consumer protection.
- Dealing with explosive growth of e-commerce on the Internet and
what that means for government-to-government, government-to-business, and
government-to-citizen business activity.
- Integrating technologies such as computers, video, fax machines,
and telephones.
Forum 2000 is designed to provide the
technology information that is needed to meet these challenges. If you've ever
wished that you had a single, time-effective way to get access to the latest
ideas, trends, and solutions in one location then Forum 2000 is your answer.
FORUM 2000 is a chance to see the latest technologies and to share experiences;
to talk to the vendors who market and support these new technologies; to attend
presentations by noted speakers who can explain trends and describe real world
solutions. Forum 2000 is an excellent chance to talk to technology managers and
technology implementers who are experiencing, or have solved, similar problems
to what you're facing today.
At 8:30 am on May 23, Steve Kolodney,
Director of the Department of Information Services, will give "A
Digital State Government" the Forum's keynote address. Forum 2000 will
provide 20 different keynote and content speaker presentations to address the
above challenges.
More than 50 vendors, including the
following corporate sponsors, have chosen to be at Forum 2000. Please stop by
at their booths.
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COMPAQ |
MICROSOFT |
DELL |
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IBM |
ORACLE |
INFORMIX |
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NOVELL |
SUN |
U.S. WEST |
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UNISYS |
SAGASOFTWARE |
COMM SYSTEMS SPEC (CSI) |
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HP |
CISCO |
GATEWAY COMPUTERS |
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SILICON GRAPHICS INC |
GTE |
PUGET SOUND SYSTEMS GROUP |
Forum 2000 is free and open to the public.
In addition to the two day Forum, the IPMA
will sponsor an 'invitation only' Forum Executive Breakfast. The Forum
Executive Breakfast will feature Washington State Attorney General, Christine
Gregoire speaking on "Privacy and Law Enforcement in Cyberspace" and
will be held at Saint Martin's Worthington Center on Monday, May 22, at 7:30
a.m. (Note: This date has been changed from that announced in the original
press release.)
IPMA,
P.O. Box 1943, Olympia, WA 98507-1943