The impact of computers on local and regional government

Whenever we talk of the "impact of computers" on a given area of applications, we usually become concerned with the technical character of the applications and how they might be supported with computer systems and/or other advanced information processing devices. Thus, in viewing the computer's impact on local and regional government, we could easily focus our discussion here on techniques of water billing, crime information retrieval or regional economic data analysis. And, indeed, some attention must be given to matters of this sort.