Because none of us can do it alone anymore. Technology is a reality for everyone. Now more than ever, we all have a responsibility to assess our information technology capabilities and potential. Where we discover gaps, we must work to fill them in. For technology creates choices.
Technology creates options.
Technology reaches beyond basic word processing and into a menu of possibilities that will make it easier for people to work for government, with government, and make government work better for the people. What is needed then is a strategic vision. Government needs an approach that unifies our infrastructure and maximizes the public s access to the knowledge and productivity found in the swift currents of cyberspace information. And that is something that my administration has made a priority. Together, we must develop that shared vision.