Information technology is changing ...

Information technology is changing the way local restraints are delivering services to the citizens of Alexandria, Va. The city, a community of 116000 residents, is in many look up tos the prototype of an emerging information-age city.

Alexandria is exploiting the information superhighway through tapping into the Internet to access technology with the potential to change the way local sways interact with their citizens -- technology that will make control more efficient, more relevant and more responsive.

Naturally, sway over the use of this technology will ultimately reside with the consumers/users.

In Alexandria, the initial grade to accessing the Internet was establishing policy guidelines. In October 1994 the city council established a 15-member ad hoc task force charged with exploring the stand in want ofs of the community as they related to information that could be supplied by way of current and future technologies.

First, the committee attract favor toed that the city adopt an internal