Commerce Secretary Launches Redesigned
www.commerce.gov

New Site Helps Businesses Find Development, Grant and Trade Opportunities

U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans today announced a newly redesigned Department of Commerce Web site (www.commerce.gov) to better serve businesses and communities across the country. Already one of the most visited government brands online, the Department of Commerce Web sites attracted more than 5.8 million unique visitors during the month of June, reaching nearly five percent of the month's active online population at home and at work, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.

"Our new Web site will make government more accessible to all Americans, helping them find services, do business, and connect with the Department of Commerce with just a click of a computer mouse," Evans said.

The Department has redesigned and reengineered its Web site to be of better service to businesses and communities across the U.S. supporting the goals of the Administration in creating an electronic government and a government of the 21st century. The Web site will make government more accessible to all Americans allowing them to find services, do business, and connect with the Department of Commerce.

The new Commerce Department Web site conforms with President Bush's e-Government Initiative, expanding electronic government to make it easy for citizens and businesses to interact with the government, saving taxpayer dollars and significantly improving the government's quality of service for citizens and businesses. Along with providing the most current news from the Commerce Department, the Web site helps businesses find development, grant and international trade opportunities. It also provides more access to the many diverse and critical services of the Department, including economic indicators, official time, weather forecasts, and population demographics.

The Commerce Department makes possible the weather reports heard every morning; it facilitates technology that Americans use in the workplace and home every day; it supports the development, gathering and transmitting of information essential to competitive business; it makes possible the diversity of companies and goods found in the global marketplace; it supports environmental and economic health for the communities in which Americans live; and it conducts the constitutionally mandated census. The new Web site can be found at www.commerce.gov.