(3/27/2007) After a Senate committee said current legislation is lacking security and privacy safeguards, the future of Australia's Access card appears to be in doubt. While legislation to implement the Access card has been passed by the House of Representatives, a parliamentary Senate committee has called for additional legislation to provide safeguards and ensure it doesn't become a national identity card. | (3/26/2007) A committee of MPs has warned there is "no evidence" that the U.K. government's proposed new child maintenance system and the IT to support it will avoid a repeat of the fiasco surrounding the doomed Child Support Agency (CSA). | (3/23/2007) We've all seen it happen. Self-destruction. Career-limiting beB-havior. Professional suicide. Some previously normal and capable IT manager suddenly starts acting strangely and destructively. If you are the supervisor of such a person, you've got a challenge on your hands. | (3/7/2007) Imagine a memory storage device or an electronic circuit only a few thousand atoms in width and made up of molecular-sized components. These devices may very well be the future of nanotechnology, an area of applied science and engineering devoted to the atom-by-atom design of structures typically less than a hundred nanometres in size. | (3/2/2007) IT leaders this week debated which standards should be used to build interoperable health information systems - an effort complicated by patient privacy concerns, technology hurdles and competing vendor interests. | (2/28/2007) If you've defaulted on your child support payments in Ontario, chances are you'll find yourself on goodparentspay.com - and millions will have read all the gory details. Since the Ministry of Community and Social Services launched goodparentspay.com over a week ago, the site has received over 10 million hits, and 150 tips from the public. | (2/16/2007) Canadian doctors should be enticed to adopt electronic health record systems through a combination of subsidies and results-based incentives similar to those employed in New Zealand, suggests a group of Kiwi experts on tour in Canada. EHR systems will be widely used only when physicians realize the benefits the technology offers. | (2/2/2007) A card management system that tracks access cards through their entire lifecycle and can hold applications for secure storage or transfer of holder information is set to launch in Australia. | (1/30/2007) The Winnipeg Police Service is set to launch a crime tracking program - dubbed CrimeStat - early next month in hopes of generating accurate and timely information on crime in the city. | (1/29/2007) Enterprise IT administrators didn't need the recent stories about large-scale data breaches at TJX Co. (network compromise potentially exposing credit data on hundreds of thousands of customers) or Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (lost hard drive with personal financial information on 470,000 mutual fund customers) or Nationwide Health Plans (backup tapes with data on 28,000 patients stolen from a lockbox) to convince them that data protection was an urgent problem in need of attention. | (1/12/2007) The U.S. Federal Communications Commission's Kevin Martin weighed in on net neutrality, saying it "means different things to different people" during his presentation at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. |
  | |  | | 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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