I enjoy answering my own e-mails and will continue to do so until the volume is too great to handle. You can easily look up a state employee through the white pages and launch and e-mail directly. By the way, if you don't have access to the Internet at home or at the office you can go to most public libraries in the state, including the State Library, and use the SLED system. Although sometimes it takes forever to move a new idea through a bureaucracy, I'm proud of how fast the TIC got the State online. We unveiled our home pages in July, a mere six months after coming into office.
Statistics show a steady increase in usage.
Just last week the State of Alaska homepage received 96,000 hits from all over the world. Now there' s a faster, more efficient way to access information from the state of Alaska. Establishing the state on the World Wide Web was an important accomplishment of the TIC last year. This has drastically changed the way state government communicates. More exciting to me is the opportunity for average citizens to send quick e-mail messages to state government including the Governor, legislators and myself.