(5/23/2006) The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on Monday warned military veterans about the potential for identity theft after personal data on up to 26.5 million VA clients was stolen from an analyst's home. | (5/2/2006) Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) will present several new open source-based desktop and security applications on Wednesday at a local Linux event. | (4/28/2006) China claimed that it has lost US$1 billion in disputes over intellectual property (IP) rights since it joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. | (4/20/2006) Governments need to pass more antispam laws, give law enforcement agencies more resources and work better across borders to combat unsolicited e-mail clogging up inboxes, an international economic group said Wednesday. | (4/17/2006) France has begun issuing electronic passports that will allow its citizens to travel to the United States without a visa, according to Amsterdam-based Axalto. | (4/6/2006) Health care industry experts were divided in their assessments of Tuesday's speech from the throne. | (4/4/2006) Anticipating fierce opposition from operators, the European Commission Monday opened a six week-long consultation about its plans to slash the cost of using a mobile phone on the move. | (3/30/2006) In many remote communities in Northern Ontario, there are seasons when the main link to the outside world is a phone box. The KNet network has changed that for more than 60 communities in the region. | (3/20/2006) The emerging RFID industry is not producing Orwellian and Kafkaesque chips. At least, not yet. But privacy advocates are already sounding loud and urgent alarms about the potential abuses of RFID technology. | (3/14/2006) The Philippine Department of Science and Technology (DoST) has launched an open-source portal to integrate databases of other government agencies. | (3/8/2006) The advent of electronic government a decade ago brought with it unfettered rhetoric and anticipation. Born in an era of dot-com valuations and an infatuation with most anything beginning with the prefix "e," it generated much hope b and much has been delivered. |
  | |  | | 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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