The White House today released two memoranda to federal agencies designed to strengthen public access to federal government information and services. Largely unnoticed, the two memoranda direct agencies to put more information online and contain 16 directives for improving public access to government information and numerous strategies for improving electronic services. Among other things, agencies were directed to organize information by the ways people may seek it rather than along bureaucratic lines. Agencies were singled out to perform specific tasks; for example, the Environmental Protection Agency must develop a "national strategy" for using information technology and public access to information to drive environmental cleanup and pollution prevention efforts. Other directives would, among other things, improve the way government delivers benefits, protects personal privacy and reports on school performance. Text of Memoranda to Federal Agencies

• Use of Information Technology to Improve Our Society

• Electronic Government (E-Services)