This was a content publishing system proj-ect. Right now, the site has about 10 percent of the content on it that it should. For the investment the city has made, it will get huge returns and will invest no additional money. When supplying content, agency editors log into an Active Server Page that acts as a front end to the database. The database uses Microsoft's BackOffice and SQL Server to wrap the look and feel of the Web site around locally keyed information.
City officials have yet to add all the services they plan to offer through the site.
For example, they plan to add community kiosks to enhance citizen access. But officials will poll users before making future enhancements. Columbus 'Scorecard' Simplifies TrackingMayor Gregory Lashutka of Columbus, Ohio, is urging the city's 20 suburbs to maintain a cross-community checklist on Year 2000 readiness, just as the city itself keeps a compliance scorecard of its 24 internal divisions. Columbus hired Cambridge, Mass.-based iCube International Integration Inc., which in six weeks showed the city's Year 2000 progress and specified its next steps. The scorecard analyzes each application and tracks the Year 2000 compliance of hardware and software.