SENATOR ADVOCATES ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT - Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) has called upon all levels of U.S. government to collaborate on efforts to make government services available to citizens in cyberspace. The federal government's Chief Information Officer Council and the National Partnership for Reinvention of Government are already working on the task, but Lieberman says these groups are "often not well coordinated." Efforts to ramp up e-government services start with the need for a federal CIO or IT czar with real power, according to Lieberman. A bill to create such a position is set for introduction by October, but Lieberman does not anticipate any movement on the bill during this session of Congress. Other keys to improving e-government efforts are one-stop shopping for citizens, interoperability standards, an apparatus for interagency funding and a need for immediate action. (InfoWorld.com, 2000 July 12 - Edupage 13 July 0)