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Source: Detroit Free PressNov.迷你倉 12--WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has sent a team of five experts in government technology from cities across the U.S. to Detroit on a two-day mission to improve municipal services.Led by the White House Office of Science & Technology, the team -- which traveled to Detroit on Monday night -- includes officials from Boston, Chicago and New Orleans, as well as those from Louisville, Ky., and Raleigh, N.C.Meetings between the officials and Detroit city leaders, as well as local business people and nonprofit leaders, are hoped to lead to improvements in several areas, including enabling online permitting, streamlining payroll, increasing access to government data and creating a non-emergency 311 system.Officials will also be evaluating existing information technology systems in the city to determine if there are "opportunities for consolidation and cost savings in areas including software applications, data centers and servers."The visit by the officials grew out of the announcement by White House officials in late September of some $300-million in federal, local and nonprofit aid to the city, which filed the largest-ever municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history this summer.Much of the funding had already been awarded to the citmini storage, however, and federal officials were quick to point out that they also planned to help Detroit improve its accounting and technology systems as a way to make sure funding got to its intended uses more quickly.The Obama administration at the time also promised to send its chief technology officer, Todd Park, to Detroit to help analyze and improve city systems. Park has recently become embroiled in Congress' ongoing investigation into problems surrounding the launch of Healthcare.gov, the administration's website to enroll people under the Affordable Care Act.A White House team led by Don Graves, a deputy assistant secretary at U.S. Treasury, has been spending a few days each week in Detroit, offering aid in getting federal money to intended projects and help in cutting through bureaucratic red tape.In conjunction with the Tech Team project -- the name given to this week's visit and follow-up efforts by the team -- the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Dan Gilbert's Rock Ventures will provide $500,000 to help implement its recommendations. The Kresge Foundation is supporting the Tech Team's trip to Detroit this week.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Detroit Free Press Visit the Detroit Free Press at .freep.com Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉