(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. | (3/12/2007) 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. | (3/1/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (1/24/2007) Four vendors on Tuesday demonstrated electronic health records (EHR) and showed off their prototypes to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' American Health Information Community (AHIC) advisory board. | (1/3/2007) The debate over the security of electronic voting machines hasn't gone away after November's elections in the U.S. | (12/12/2006) The federal government has announced it wants to speed up deregulation of local phone services by basing it on "presence of competitive infrastructure" in a specific geography rather than market share. |
  | |  | | 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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