• City of San Antonio government home page
• City Public Service
• San Antonio Water System (SAWS)
• San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau

• Bexar County
• Bexar County Appraisal District
• Bexar Metropolitan Water District

• Alamo Federal Executive Board consists of the principal representatives of each federal agency in the city, to foster improved communication and coordination.
• Edwards Aquifer Authority

• TransGuide The Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) "smart highway" project, called TransGuide, is online in San Antonio.

• SalsaNet  mediaLab
• The Public Studio of the San Antonio Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is an example of how the planning process of the future might work.
• Downtown Alliance

Organizations, Think Tanks and Theory

• The Internet Society:
        The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 150 organizational and 6,000 individual members in over 100 countries. It provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). The Smart City is a project of the South Central Texas Chapter of the Internet Society (SalsaNet.)

• Yahoo Internet Life Most Wired Cities:
       The San Antonio page was especially interesting (we came in 27th with 25.5 points, compared to #1 San Francisco's 60.5) and got a lot of good brownie points for the strength of our government sites. (Added May 22, 1998)

• Technology 21: Making Pennsylvania a 21st Century technology leader
        Mostly about business and education oriented initiatives, with good data and ideas.(Added May 22, 1998)

• 1997 GII award winners in the government category
        The winner was Indianapolis (Added May 22, 1998)

• States Inventory Project
          A clearinghouse for tracking state National Information Infrastructure (NII) activities. Large section on Texas initiatives.

• LaPlaza TeleCommunity Network Papers
          Papers from a May, 1996 Taos, NM Community Networking '96 "Bring People Together" Online Conference.

• Public Technology, Inc.
          Public Technology, Inc. (PTI), is the non-profit technology R&D organization of the National League of Cities (NLC), the National Association of Counties (NACo), and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA).

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
          (added 10/06/97) Maintains a section on Community Networking. See especially the proceedings of their conference, Community Space and Cyberspace.

• The Center for Civic Networking
          The Center for Civic Networking promotes best practices and policies that foster the public use of information infrastructure for community economic development, social service delivery and participation in governance.

• National Information Infrastructure Virtual Library
         

• Association of Bay Area Governments Telecomm Network
           Designed to help local governments find information, sample agreements from other jurisdictions and help from the Bay Area's talented pool of public servants. See especially this list of How Local Governments use the Internet
• New York State
          Developing & Delivering Government Services on the World Wide Web: Recommended Practices for New York State
• Background
          on Clinton-Gore Administrations "Next-Generation Internet Initiative."
• Smart Communites™ Home
• Los Angeles
           Mayor's Special Advisory Committee on Technology Implementation Final Report
• Communications as Engagement
  The Millennium Report to the Rockefeller Foundation (October 1994)
• The Virtual Community:
          Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, by Howard Rheingold
• KickStart Initiatives
          community-based efforts to bring the Information Superhighway to all individuals through schools, libraries, and community centers.

• "Cities Online: Public Access to City Services on the Web."
          Craig Milo Rogers and Paul Mockapetris, USC/Information Sciences Institute

• "Envisioning On-line Public Information Services for San Diego."
         Terje Norderhaug

• "Government Service Delivery: Reengineering Through Information Technology."
         National Performance Review, Reenigeering Through Information Technology Team, Draft for Public Comment.

• "Digital Nation: On-line experiment's goal is to link entire town."
         Dwight Silverman

• "Blacksburg Electronic Village - Research

• "Use and Impact of Community Networking in the Blacksburg Electronic Village."
         Andrea Kavanaugh and Scott Patterson

• What are Communities Doing On-Line?
          (added 12/11/97) Presented at Supercomputing '95 December 7, 1995. Contains possible research methodologies for analyzing city online services.

Convergence of Television and Computers

• Public TV and the transition to digital broadcasting
         From Current Online, the biweekly newspaper that covers public TV and public radio in the United States
• Corporation for Public Broadcasting
           See especially these infopackets:
  • The TV or the PC: Which Way for Public Broadcasters?
  • TV and Radio Meet the Internet
  • TV and Radio Meet the Internet, Part Deux: Intercasting

City/County/State Government Web Sites

• San Diego
           makes a commitment to become a City of the Future.
• Albuquerque
         a "Smart City", where all citizens use tools of computing and communcations technologies to improve quality of life.
• Palo Alto's home page.
          Simple and elegant.
• Jackamas County, Oregon
  

• Austin City Connection,
  
• Preparing for the Millennium
       Florida's State Strategic Plan for Information Resources Management: 1996/1997 - 1999/2000

• Wellington, New Zealand
          "Info City" and vision for the year 2020.

Civic Networking (non-government) sites

• Community Networks
         A list of links to community networks from the World Wide Web Virtual Library
• Smart Valley
         Smart Valley creates and facilitates the implementation of projects that accelerate the adoption of technology in various sectors of the community with emphasis on education and local government.
• Davis (California) Community Network
          (added 11/12/97) A non-profit with the mission to strengthen the community by helping its members understand and benefit from participation in the electronic information age.

• LibertyNet
        Linking people and information in the Philadelphia Region

• Charlotte's Web
          Charlotte, North Carolina Community Network

• Project DIANE
         Diversified Information and Assistance NEtwork, uses digital public telephone network and interactive video/multimedia computer technologies to support cooperative electronic alliances in education, community service and economic development.

• Talahassee FreeNet

• Hampton Roads, VA, Community Links
         Community Link is a public service of WHRO, the Public Telecommunications Center for Hampton Roads, Virginia, and made possible in part by grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Bell Atlantic Corporation.

• USA CityLink
         The USA CityLink Project is the most comprehensive United States city and state listing on the web. It provides users with a starting point when accessing information about US states and cities.