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  Overview

eGovernment enables Employees to:

  • Better fulfill USDA's mission
  • Enhance the Department's citizen focus
  • Unify, simplify, and reduce redundancy in the delivery of services, information, and programs
  • Increase efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability
  • Spend more time on value-added activities

    eGovernment enables Citizens to:

  • Access programs, services, and information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • Obtain information through new delivery channels and new methods for interacting with government
  • Feel greater connectedness to a responsive Government
  • Access government services through single points of entry

    eGovernment enables the Public and Private Sectors to:

  • Enjoy services tailored to business needs rather than organized around government departments
  • Work more collaboratively with each other and with Government
  • Be more efficient because of reduced reporting burdens