(1/9/2008) According to a recent study, large enterprise companies in particular are willing to pay for top talent, with CIOs and IT executives gaining the biggest increase in compensation in the past year. | (1/4/2008) Tougher criminal penalties for data security breaches are being urged by a committee of MPs as incidents where the government or contractors have lost people's personal data continue to come to light. | (12/20/2007) A recent survey found that IT workers tend to have free-market principles and independent attitudes about political parties on the subject of U.S. politics and the government's role in regulation. | (12/18/2007) The City of Brockville in Ontario has become the latest municipality to offer Industry Canada's online service tool BizPaL. "Whenever we can simplify the paperwork and bureaucracy and get to the business quickly, we not only should do so, but must do so," said Brockville Mayor Dave Henderson. | (12/10/2007) The U.K. Office of Government Commerce has warned that government departments are increasingly dependent on outside consultants to fill procurement skills gaps, with the tendency being particularly pronounced in IT. | (12/6/2007) As more and more services move online, identifying and authenticating citizens in cyber-space are becoming more difficult for governments. Citizens want one-stop service but they also want assurances their personal information is kept private. Securely sharing identity information while remaining within the confines of privacy legislation, therefore, is a challenge the public sector is working to overcome. | (12/6/2007) As more and more services move online, identifying and authenticating citizens in cyber-space are becoming more difficult for governments. Citizens want one-stop service but they also want assurances their personal information is kept private. Securely sharing identity information while remaining within the confines of privacy legislation, therefore, is a challenge the public sector is working to overcome. | (12/6/2007) As more and more services move online, identifying and authenticating citizens in cyber-space are becoming more difficult for governments. Citizens want one-stop service but they also want assurances their personal information is kept private. Securely sharing identity information while remaining within the confines of privacy legislation, therefore, is a challenge the public sector is working to overcome. | (12/5/2007) Don't let your data warehouse turn into an IT security nightmare, warns CIO Government Review columnist Richard Bray. Bray explores the security challenges involved in managing continuously increasing volumes of data, while looking at how organizations can get the most value out of their data jewels. | (11/29/2007) According to a recent focus-group report, young IT workers in the U.S. government believe that by the time technology is rolled out it's obsolete, and as a result they're concerned they aren't getting the experience they need because some functions are outsourced. | (11/28/2007) In an effort to improve health care services to citizens in rural and remote areas, the Alberta government is providing more than $2.4 million in funding towards the expansion of its telehealth network. Fourteen projects will be added over the next year-and-a-half, including real-time pharmacist verification and a "TeleWomen's health" project. |
  | |  | | 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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