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The Federal government has two roles in the information age: 1) to lead the society as we define our vision, goals, desired transformation, and strategies in light of the opportunities and newly created problems associated with information technology tools; and 2) to transform the government by becoming savvy users, key innovators and drivers of change with information technology tools.
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Comedy, Y.L. (2002). The Federal Government. In: McIver, W.J., Elmagarmid, A.K. (eds) Advances in Digital Government. Advances in Database Systems, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47374-7_13
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