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© December, 2000
Carole Keeton Rylander
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
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e-Texas Chapter 1 | Endnotes


Endnotes

[1] US Department of Commerce, “The Digital Economy,” Washington, DC, June 2000.

[2] Peter Drucker,“Beyond the Information Revolution,” The Atlantic Monthly, October 1999 (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99oct/9910drucker.htm). (Internet document.)

[3] Peter Drucker,“Beyond the Information Revolution,” The Atlantic Monthly, October 1999 (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99oct/9910drucker.htm). (Internet document.)

[4] The simple device was called the “Altair.”

[5] Louis Uchitelle, “Business to Business: It’s Just Beginning,” The New York Times, June 7, 2000, Section H, p. 1.

[6] “Business-to-Business E-Commerce Seen Soaring,” Reuters via Yahoo News, January 26, 2000.

[7] “VISA USA and Thomas Regional Partner to Lay E-commerce Foundation for Industrial Marketplace,” Business Wire, Inc., December 14, 1999.

[8] Dennis McCafferty with Christopher Elliott and Kelly DiNardo, “News & Views,” USA Weekend, March 28, 1999, p. 8.

[9] “Collaborative Research Internet Traffic Still Growing, Snafus Still Occurring, But Report Details Why So Much Actually Works,” PR Newswire, Financial News, March 3, 1999.

[10] Clinton Wilder and Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, “Putting the ‘E’ Back in Business,” Information Week Online, January 31, 2000 (www.informationweek.com/771/ebiz.htm). (Internet document.)

[11] Joseph White, “Getting into Gear: Car companies have big plans for e-commerce,” The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, April 17, 2000, p. R65.

[12] Joseph Guinto, “Business to Business E-Commerce: Promise and Peril for the Wannabe,” Investor’s Business Daily, March 8, 2000, p. 22.

[13] David Welch, “At Ford, E-Commerce is Job 1,” Business Week, February 28, 2000,p. 76. The Finnish cellular phone giant Nokia predicts that by 2005, all new cars will have at least one Internet address.

[14] Clinton Wilder and Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, “Putting the ‘E’ Back in Business,” Information Week Online, January 31, 2000 (www.informationweek.com/771/ebiz.htm). (Internet document.)

[15] Powerize.com, “Editor’s Choice: Agricultural Technology Growth,” March 22, 2000 (http://wwwrd.0mm.com/pwz121001). (Internet document.)

[16] Such as PayPal and Emoneymail.com.

[17] Robert D. Hof, “The Internet Economy: the World’s Next Growth Engine,” Business Week Online, October 4, 1999 (http://www.businessweek.com). (Internet document.)

[18] Jay Palmer, “Handheld gadgets are hot today, but the future belongs to wireless phones,” Interactive Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Cover Page, February 28, 2000 (http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB95152168526703192.djm&template= barrons.tmpl). (Internet document.)

[19] Jay Palmer, “Handheld gadgets are hot today, but the future belongs to wireless phones,” Interactive Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Cover Page, February 28, 2000 (http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB95152168526703192.djm&template= barrons.tmpl). (Internet document.)

[20] Deloitte Consulting and Deloitte & Touche, “The Emergence of the e-Health Consumer,” p. 4, figure 2 (http://dc.com/deloitte_research/featured/e-health/index.asp). (Internet document.)

[21] Deloitte Consulting and Deloitte & Touche, “The Emergence of the e-Health Consumer,” p. 4, figure 2 (http://dc.com/deloitte_research/featured/e-health/index.asp). (Internet document.)

[22] California Health Care Foundation, “The Future of the Internet in Health Care,” by Robert Mittman and Mary Cain, January 1999 (http://www.chcf.org/orderpub.cfm). (Internet document.)

[23] Daniel McGinn, “College Online,” Newsweek, April 24, 2000, p. 54.

[24] Betsy Schiffman, “Looking for the Virtues of the Virtual Classroom,” Forbes.com, June 6, 2000 (http://www.forbes.com/tool/html/00/jun/0606/feat.htm). (Internet document.)

[25] See (www.jonesinternational.edu/academics/accreditation/index.html). (Internet document.)

[26] Unext.com, “Company Overview” (http://www.unext.com/company_overview/alliances_01.html). (Internet document.)

[27] For an excellent analysis of the new economy see: Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (New York: Viking Penguin, 1998), Chapter 1.

[28] US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, “GDP and other major NIPA Series Tables: 1929-1999” (www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn/st1.txt/). (Internet document.)

[29] Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, historical database on Gross State Product.

[30] Texas Department of Economic Development, Business and Industry Data Center, Texas Exports Database (www.bidc.state.tx.us/exportdb). (Internet document.)

[31] Office of the US Trade Representative, “America and the World Trade Organization” (http://www.ustr.gov/html/wto_usa.html). (Internet document.)

[32] Texas Workforce Commission employment database and Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts gross state product estimates by industry (http://www.twc.state.tx.us). (Internet document.)

[33] Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, “Out of the Loop,” Fiscal Notes, January 2000 (http://www.window.state.tx.us/comptrol/fnotes/fn0001/fn.html#out). (Internet document.)

[34] University of California at Berkeley, “Tools for Thought: What Is New and Important About the ‘E-conomy,’” by Stephen S. Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong, and John Zysman, February 27, 2000 (http://econ161.berkeley.edu/OpEd/virtual/technet/Tools_for_Thought.html). (Internet document.)

[35] Lawrence H. Summers, “The New Wealth of Nations,” Remarks at the Hambrecht & Quist Technology Conference, San Francisco, California, May 10, 2000 (http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/ps617.htm). (Internet document.)

[36] “Financial Impact of Internet Business Solutions (FY ‘00),” Cisco Systems Internal Document, October 2000.

[37] These savings have come in the form of reduced overhead.

[38] The State of Pennsylvania has achieved millions of dollars in savings from lower prices by employing Internet-based reverse auctions to purchase bulk commodities such as coal, reflective material and rock salt. Savings range from 8-16 percent depending on the commodity.

[39] Sue Bostrom, Vice President, Internet Business Solutions Group, Architecting the Internet Organization, Cisco Systems, 2000. (PowerPoint Presentation).

[40] Internal documents provided to e-Texas from IBM.

[41] Phillip Evans and Thomas Wurster, Blown to Bits: How the Economics of Information Transforms Strategy, (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000), p. 15.

[42] Larry Downes and Chunka Mui, Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998), p. 24.

[43] US Department of Commerce, The Emerging Digital Economy, Washington, DC, June 1999 (http://www.ecommerce.gov/ede/). (Internet document.)

[44] US Department of Commerce, The Emerging Digital Economy, Washington, DC, June 1999 (http://www.ecommerce.gov/ede/). (Internet document.)

[45] Roland Jones, “Businesses Use the Web to Cut Their Costs,” by ABCNEWS.com from TheStreet.com (http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/cuttingcosts991021.html). (Internet document.)

[46] Joseph Guinto, “Business to Business E-Commerce: Promise and Peril for the Wannabe,” p. 22.

[47] Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, “It’s Official: IT Adds Up,” Informationweek Online, April 17, 2000 (http://www.informationweek.com/782/productivity.htm). (Internet document.)

[48] Goldman Sachs, “The Shocking Economic Effect of B2B,” Global Economics Paper No. 37, by Martin Brookes and Zaki Wahhaj (London, England, February 3, 2000), p. S12.

[49] The countries studied were France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the US.

[50] Matthew Symonds, “Survey: Government and the Internet,” The Economist, June 24, 2000, p. 4.

[51] Larry Downes and Chunka Mui, Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance, pp. 16-20.

[52] Larry Downes and Chunka Mui, Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance, pp. 19.

[53] Evans and Wurster, Blown to Bits, p. 69.

[54] Michael Cox remarks at e-Texas Commission Meeting, Austin, Texas, July 20, 2000.

[55] Matthew Symonds, “Survey: Government and the Internet,” The Economist, June 24, 2000, p. 4.

[56] All total spending amounts are from Table 25 in various years of the Comptroller’s Texas Annual Cash Report. All amounts include trust fund expenditures, if any, for each agency.

[57] Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Texas Medicaid in Perspective, Third Ed. (Austin, Texas, February 1999), p. 84.

[58] Inmates also are serving more of their sentences than at the beginning of the decade. The parole approval rate dropped from 79.4 percent of parole considerations in 1990 to 20.2 percent in 1998. As a result, the share of the average sentence served lengthened from 20.8 percent to 50.4 percent over the decade, creating a further need for prison space.

[59] E-Texas E-Government Task Force Public Hearing, Houston, Texas, April 3, 2000 (http://www.e-texas.org/egov/meetings.html). (Internet document.)

[60] Oregon Department of Administrative Services, State Surplus Property, “Online Property & Evidence Sales,” Salem, Oregon, August 7, 2000. (Computer printout.)

[61] Washington Department of Information Services, “DIS E-Mall Helps Government Agencies Save Time and Money on Technology Purchases,” March 6, 2000 (http://www.wa.gov/dis/techcentral/feature125.htm). (Internet document.) The “E-Mall” is accessible via (http://emall.dis.wa.gov/).

[62]“Gov. Ridge Says State’s New ‘Friction-Free’ Business Website Proves to Be Immensely Popular,” Pennsylvania Office of Administration, March 30, 2000. (Press release.)



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