(4/30/2007) The nanny state's days are numbered. For over a century, government's top-down approach has created a culture of control and programmed public expectations that the state is responsible for solving society's problems. There are many complex social problems today that can't be solved by issuing edicts from office towers in Ottawa. Obesity, racism, economic sustainability: these are issues that need to be tackled communally by diverse players at all levels to change attitudes and behaviour. | (4/25/2007) With an influx of younger and increasingly tech-savvy physicians into the health care profession comes more opportunity for wide-scale adoption of e-health records. However, even if we do reach a complete digital environment, EHR systems alone will not provide all the potential benefits available to Canada's physicians and, ultimately, patients. | (4/23/2007) I'm writing this column on the day of the Virginia Tech national tragedy. Aside from the natural emotions from this overwhelming, random act of violence, this event struck even closer to home because one of my daughters was recently accepted into Virginia Tech, and she and a sister were planning a road trip to the campus. | (4/6/2007) U.K. firms are set to face increasing demands from staff for flexible and remote working arrangements with new employment rights that come into force Friday. The 2006 Work and Families Act gives people who care for adults similar rights to flexible working as those introduced for parents of young children in 2003. | (4/5/2007) The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has ended a proceeding that would have allowed mobile phone calls on airplanes, for now ending the possibility of phone conversations during flights. | (3/27/2007) After a Senate committee said current legislation is lacking security and privacy safeguards, the future of Australia's Access card appears to be in doubt. While legislation to implement the Access card has been passed by the House of Representatives, a parliamentary Senate committee has called for additional legislation to provide safeguards and ensure it doesn't become a national identity card. | (3/26/2007) A committee of MPs has warned there is "no evidence" that the U.K. government's proposed new child maintenance system and the IT to support it will avoid a repeat of the fiasco surrounding the doomed Child Support Agency (CSA). | (3/23/2007) We've all seen it happen. Self-destruction. Career-limiting beB-havior. Professional suicide. Some previously normal and capable IT manager suddenly starts acting strangely and destructively. If you are the supervisor of such a person, you've got a challenge on your hands. | (3/20/2007) Biometrics and encryption aren't exactly new. For most of us, neither is wildly exciting either. But the prospect of combining these two security pieces has sparked a call to action by Ontario's privacy commissioner. | (3/15/2007) The glitch that has plagued Canada Revenue Agency for the past two weeks appears to be fixed. The agency was able to restore their tax processing systems a day ahead of schedule. | (3/15/2007) Canada Revenue Agency has come under scathing attack for its crisis management tactics. Liberal Revenue critic Judy Sgro has urged federal Revenue Minister Carol Skelton to get back to Ottawa to address the needs of her crisis-stricken department. |
  | |  | | Blog Spotlight: Sandford Borins |  | As Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto, Sandford Borins brings InterGovWorld.com readers exclusive insights into how and why the public sector is changing. You'll find new perspectives and questions, observations and objectives, lessons and answers. Cover to Cover, the blog by Prof. Sandford Borins, appears every Thursday. Inside Cover to Cover | |
| | | Unified Communications |  | Unity is a word often heard in the public sector, with myriad agencies and departments looking to foster collective thinking around some of today's most pressing issues. The word, however, doesn't usually get mentioned in the same breath as technology. That's a situation, though, that might soon be changing, thanks to a new software platform known as unified communications.
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