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(2/21/2008) U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama has technology on his side. No, not necessarily the technology industry as a whole, although the Democrat's tech policy agenda has won him some support. Instead, Obama's campaign has embraced innovative technologies that help him connect with voters, volunteers and supporters. | (2/14/2008) With new regulations and the recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, legal departments are turning to IT leadership to manage the retention, deletion, search and recovery of electronic information. For IT management in large companies, this means tracking billions of e-mail messages, database records and desktop files as they move across tens of thousands of servers and desktop computers. | (2/4/2008) If Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion is accepted, privacy groups are threatening a fight before U.S. regulatory agencies. Microsoft announced that it sent an offer to Yahoo's board of directors last Thursday, going public with the news Friday morning. | (1/31/2008) Alarms are sounding from many quarters about looming shortages in IT staff. The public sector will be particularly hard hit. An attrition rate of about 50 per cent over the next 10 years is expected for senior government IT staff due to early retirement, says David Tighe, VP at OriginHR, a Toronto-based recruiting and retention services provider. | (1/18/2008) Back in June 2006, when Facebook was still a university phenomenon, a group of civil servants started up the Government 2.0 Think Tank (G2TT) in Ottawa. Led by Patrick Cormier, then a military lawyer and a project director at the Department of National Defence (DND), G2TT's aim was to provide a forum to connect people who want to use open source and Web 2.0 concepts to make governments more efficient and interactive. | (1/18/2008) Back in June 2006, when Facebook was still a university phenomenon, a group of civil servants started up the Government 2.0 Think Tank (G2TT) in Ottawa. Led by Patrick Cormier, then a military lawyer and a project director at the Department of National Defence (DND), G2TT's aim was to provide a forum to connect people who want to use open source and Web 2.0 concepts to make governments more efficient and interactive. | (1/17/2008) The day-to-day requirements of keeping enterprise systems up and running efficiently and ensuring a happy user base is one huge challenge, which makes it hard for most IT workers to look ahead. Yet, as Forrester Research analyst Sharyn Leaver notes in a recent report, many of these same people point to "a lack of insight into future trends as an inhibitor to their effectiveness and development." | (1/10/2008) The Centers for Democracy and Technology (CDT) have warned that a proposed new RFID-enabled passport card intended for use by Americans frequently travelling to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean poses serious security and privacy risks for users. | (1/4/2008) According to a recent Computerworld poll, it's going to be a tough year for IT project managers. Project management has always earned a high ranking on the annual list of IT managers' worries, but in the first-half of the 2008 Vital Signs survey, it took the No. 1 spot. | (1/4/2008) According to a recent Computerworld poll, it's going to be a tough year for IT project managers. Project management has always earned a high ranking on the annual list of IT managers' worries, but in the first-half of the 2008 Vital Signs survey, it took the No. 1 spot. | (1/3/2008) As we welcome the New Year, it's also a time to reflect and look back on the news that resonated with our readers in 2007. The most-read stories run the gamut of topics, from free WiFi scams and hot public sector IT trends to the realities of Facebook for the government. Read on for the top 10 stories of 2007. |
  | |  | | 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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