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PRESS RELEASE
We invite you to visit and experience for yourself the new customer focused US Government Internet portal www.FirstGov.gov Vice President Dick Cheney launched the redesigned FirstGov.gov website February 27, 2002. FirstGov.gov is the U.S. Government’s official Internet portal. This is a totally new look and feel for FirstGov. The redesigned site focuses on gateways for citizens, businesses, and government, and features online transactions. President Bush has called FirstGov, “ the Front Door to my Administration’s e-government initiative to make government more accessible to all Americans.” GSA Administrator Stephen A. Perry described the FirstGov redesign, “significant progress in harnessing the power of technology to improve citizens interaction with their government.” The new FirstGov site is designed to connect visitors faster and more accurately with the transactions, services, and information that matter to them. Under the Citizens Gateway, visitors to the site can find helpful links under “Change Your Address,” “Government Shopping,” “E-File your Taxes,” “Social Security OnLine,” and much more. The Business Gateway offers links to information on “Business Opportunities,” “Business Laws and Regulations,” “Federal Auctions and Sales,” and other helpful links. The Governments Gateway important information resources for federal, state, local, and tribal governments and employees such as grants, travel, government jobs, government sales and auctions, and the very latest concerning information technology. In response to feedback from customers, FirstGov was redesigned to meet the public’s desire to conduct more transactions online and to have government information organized specifically for citizens, businesses, and governments. Since its original launch in September 2000, visitors to FirstGov.gov have found it easy to find Web-based information, services, and transactions on federal, state, and local government Web sites. More people have been finding it more efficient to go online than to waste valuable time standing in line to work with government. With FirstGov, citizens no longer need to know the name of the government agency or department to find what they are looking for. If citizens prefer to search information and services, the FirstGov search engine takes them there, in a flash of a second, to more information and services than are available from any other source. FirstGov connects citizens to over 50 million pages of federal, state, local, government Web pages. During 2001, FirstGov.gov received 50 million hits. FirstGov.gov is currently averaging 6 million hits per month. FirstGov is an interagency initiative managed by the U.S. General Services Administration. For more information contact: FirstGov@FirstGov.gov
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