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(1/9/2007) The dangers of easy access wireless LANs recently prompted government officials in New York and California to create new laws to prevent network "piggybacking" and exposure of sensitive data in both businesses and homes. | (1/8/2007) Rules requiring independent audit mechanisms for electronic-voting machines are likely coming, but the changes won't happen overnight, a group of advocates said Friday. | (12/15/2006) A few months after the 2001 terrorist attack on New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's mandate was straightforward: Make the Big Apple a better place to live in. For his part, in four years as CIO of New York City, Gino Menchini helped set new standards for local government to be more accessible and more accountable to its citizens. | (12/12/2006) Ontario's Integrated Public Health Information System (iPHIS) is being heralded as hugely successful in co-ordinating previously disparate ways of controlling epidemic outbreaks, but the system may be overlooking thousands within the province's Aboriginal community. | (12/4/2006) Officials in Ohio's Cuyahoga County are mulling the idea of scrapping a US$17 million (C$19.5 million) investment in touch-screen electronic voting systems and switching to optical-scan devices. | (11/23/2006) IT upgrades can prove costly, especially for cash-strapped school boards, but a recent decision by the Education Computing Network of Ontario (ECNO) to rollout a Microsoft human resources and payroll processing application hopes to provide cost effectiveness and increased usability. | (11/16/2006) Greg Garcia, the recently named head of cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, is an impatient man when it comes to bureaucracy. That may be a good thing. | (10/25/2006) A consulting company for municipal broadband will now come in after wireless networks are built and test them, block by block. | (10/19/2006) Michael Ignatieff is the odds on favourite to win the Liberal Party of Canada leadership, according to online betting Web site www.pinnaclesports.com. | (10/10/2006) California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Saturday vetoed legislation that would have created a security framework for the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in the state's official documents and identification cards. | (9/25/2006) Google Inc. has agreed to post a court order against the company on its Belgian Web site, dodging a potential fine of Euro500,000 (C$714,000) per day for not doing so. |
  | |  | | 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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