Dot Gov retail
In the first study of this type, Federal Computer Week and the Pew Internet & American Life Project showed that the government has more success in the retail line of the company, whose name is synonymous with online shopping . Last year, Uncle Sam sold more than $ 3.6 billion in products and goods on the Internet. Amazon.com net sales of $ 2.8 billion in 2000.
It is certainly not a novelty for the government to sell the property and wealth, on the Internet is changing the way government operates. Now, it can reach a broad public procurement and achieve a higher degree of effectiveness than in the past, current and former executives of technology say. And overweight than sell products and savings means on the property for taxpayers.
According to the study, the federal government operator or cared for at least 164 Web sites that sell something to the public. The Department of Defense is working at least eight places from the sale of products ranges from toothpaste to use military trucks and in most cases require a government to purchase the product identification. The Treasury Department’s “Treasury Direct site accounts for the vast majority of online sales of government, the sale of 3.3 billion dollars of savings in the USA, letters, T-Bills and notes during the last year.
“This is a natural evolution for the government to sell directly to the public,” said Bill Piatt, director of e-government strategy Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc., and former Chief Information Officer of the General Services Administration, the one of the largest online providers in the government. “Many people have more access to property online, as the former approach.”
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