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Digital Initiatives Enable Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission to be More Effective

May 27th, 2008

Executive Director John Contino of the Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission (www.ethics.state.pa.us) first turned to document management to eliminate the need to bring in temporary help to number the pages of legal files for major court cases.

From that starting point, document management has become an integral part of Commission operations, adding significantly to its public education and information capabilities and becoming a valued productivity tool. Full story »

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A Paperless Paper Trail For Alaska Billions

October 24th, 2005

When you have a state where:

  • More than $20 billion is invested, half in blue-chip stocks, the rest in government and corporate bonds and real estate;
  • It’s expected to produce $1.5 billion a year, including a dividend for every man, woman and child who’s a legal resident of your state – making yours the only one of the 50 United States to give money to its residents instead of collecting money from them;
  • and because we live in a litigious age, when stockholder lawsuits are as commonplace and familiar as the mailman,

It was just common sense for The Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation to install an electronic watchdog, Laserfiche, to keep an eye on its portfolio of stocks in thousands of corporations, domestic and foreign.
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