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Annual reports submitted to OMB. |
All of the 24 agencies have submitted annual reports to OMB. For example, in their fiscal year 2011 reports, agencies provided
information required by OMB, such as descriptions and status of their top three egovernment IT accomplishments and information
on their compliance with goals and certain provisions of the act. Specifically, this included information on how agencies
have implemented the use of electronic signatures, utilized management tools to improve the dissemination of and access to
agency information by the public, and complied with Section 508 requirements. Fifteen of the agencies stated that their e-government
reports had value. For example, 7 agencies felt that the reports helped to highlight their annual e-government accomplishments,
3 agencies used them to evaluate how they were addressing act requirements, and 1 agency used them to cite effective e-government
practices. However, the remaining 9 agencies questioned the value of preparing and submitting the annual reports to OMB. For
example, 1 agency reported that it did not use the report for internal program evaluation or management. In addition, 3 of
these 9 agencies noted that preparing the reports required dedicated resources and working within short time frames, and that
the reports duplicated information they had already provided to OMB through other means.
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