High school students learn GIS and help with emergency planning

Government agencies find the World Wide Web has breathed new life into legacy data, resulting in the development of some unique electronic services.

Kinko's offers videoconfencing services to inmates and their attorneys, their families and the courts.By James Wolf Special to Government Technology

Richard Rosecrance is a professor of Political Science and the director of the Center for International Relations at the University of California, Los Angeles. Previously in the Policy Planning Council at the State Department, Rosecrance has had full professorships at Berkeley, Cornell as well as at UCLA. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Global Economic Transformation: The Rise of International Services and the Virtual State.

Can common concerns and Internet connectivity overcome tradition and turf in pursuit of intergovernmental solutions? Our panel of experts tackles the issues.