(7/10/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (7/10/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (7/9/2007) The Internet of the future is being built on symbols: what they represent and the relationships between them. Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, is developing Web 3.0. In this exclusive interview, he explains his vision of the future Semantic Web, which he says will be much more powerful than anything we have seen before. | (7/8/2007) The Internet of the future is being built on symbols: what they represent and the relationships between them. Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, is developing Web 3.0. In this exclusive interview, he explains his vision of the future Semantic Web, which he says will be much more powerful than anything we have seen before. | (7/8/2007) The Internet of the future is being built on symbols: what they represent and the relationships between them. Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, is developing Web 3.0. In this exclusive interview, he explains his vision of the future Semantic Web, which he says will be much more powerful than anything we have seen before. | (6/4/2007) Rumours abound that Research in Motion Ltd. has commissioned a study of democracy's future based on the premise of a Blackberry for all Canadians. Such a scenario, perhaps not so entirely farfetched when considering wireless penetration rates now in excess of 90 per cent across much of Northern Europe, would galvanize the emergence of a truly virtual democracy. | (5/29/2007) Simplifying the procurement of information technology is the aim of the Australian government with the recent launch of version two of the SourceIT model contracts and user notes, a year after releasing the first version. Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn, said version two represents the government responding to feedback from industry and agencies. | (5/18/2007) Citing federal and state law prohibition, MySpace.com is refusing to provide the names of registered sex offenders found using its Web site to a group of state attorneys general. "We are doing everything short of breaking the law to ensure that the information about these predators gets to the proper authorities," said Hemanshu Nigam, chief security officer at MySpace.com, in an e-mail to Computerworld. | (5/15/2007) The most recent group to join the mounting opposition against the Real ID bill in the U.S. is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Real ID bill proposes to create a national standard for state driver's licences and other forms of state-issued identification. | (5/11/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (5/2/2007) 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. |
  | |  | | 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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