Local Governments Up and Running on Web.

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According to a new survey on electronic government, more than 80 percent of local governments now have their own Web site. Of those governments that do not yet have sites, 70 percent plan to create one within the next year. The survey, which was commissioned by the International City/County Management Association and Public Technology, Inc., and conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland, discovered that more than two-thirds of local governments' Web sites were less than three years old. Of the more than 40 percent of respondents who provided...