| 114th Year, 29th Issue | Thursday, February 27, 2003 | Sparta, North Carolina |
Alleghany County will be getting funds from the Rural Internet Access Authority to participate in a program designed to help local governments in rural areas offer more services via the Internet.
The RIAA announced Feb. 20 the first round of recipients chosen to participate in the program, dubbed the Local E-government Utilization Program (LEG-UP), a $1.5 million effort designed to improve the delivery of public services.
Through LEG-UP, the authority will work to advance technology infrastructure, training and use by local governments in 55 rural North Carolina counties and/or municipalities.
Also participating in the LEG-UP Pilot Project from this area is Mount Airy in Surry County.
"Through LEG-UP, local governments will be able to better serve the citizens in their areas. Imagine paying your water bill via e-mail or logging on to a town council meeting online," said Dr. James Leutze, chairman of the authority. "LEG-UP will increase interaction between citizens and the local governments that serve them."
LEG-UP builds on the authority's previous decisions to invest in and work with e-government projects in Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Mitchell, Swain, Wilkes and Yancey counties.
Those projects were approved in winter 2002.
In January 2003, the authority distributed a request for program participants through the N.C. League of Municipalities, the N.C. Association of County Commissioners and the chief information officers in every municipality in the state.
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