Much of this exists in government databases but the information needs of Canadians go beyond government information. There are several examples of gateways or networks which include documents and links to both government and private sector organizations. Manuscripts that might have stayed in someone's filing cabinet end up on government Web sites. That's the upside. But the downside is that we are losing information due to the constant updating of information and lack of proper archiving.
Content is here today, gone tomorrow.
With the tremendous growth of the Internet, information has become harder to find and many sites languish. In this newly competitive Web world, government site managers are looking for better promotional tools. This session brings together industry and government experts to discuss a wide range of promotional options including meta tagging, optimizing sites for search engines, building cyber relationships, on-line advertising as well as traditional tools such as media relations. It seems, to paraphrase a famous quote, that the reports of the traditional media's death have been greatly exaggerated. For some years now, the most zealous among the Netsurfers have been predicting the death of these media and their integration into a seamless virtual system delivered to every household.