Effective Collaborative Practices |
(8/30/2006) A person suffering extreme breathing difficulty and high fever is rushed to a hospital. The patient's condition rapidly deteriorates and a nurse at his bedside develops similar symptoms.
Moments later a diagnosis confirms Toronto's first human case of avian flu. | (8/30/2006) A person suffering extreme breathing difficulty and high fever is rushed to a hospital. The patient's condition rapidly deteriorates and a nurse at his bedside develops similar symptoms.
Moments later a diagnosis confirms Toronto's first human case of avian flu. | (8/16/2006) Convera Corp. has released a beta version of a new search engine designed to help U.S. government workers find relevant information within the glut of data on the Internet. | (8/8/2006) Numerous public-sector organizations are interested in using IT to improve operational efficiency and customer service but struggle to define and measure the economic, social and political returns of government-funded technology programs, according to SAP AG executives. | (8/1/2006) Albertans are to have a new and improved electronic health record (EHR) system soon as the result of a partnership with IBM Canada Ltd. | (8/1/2006) You can't have collaboration without a collaborator. Before Lac Carling X, there was no national organization with a mandate to serve as a municipal voice in collaboration with other levels of government to advance the cause of citizen-centred service.
| (7/21/2006) As a former Novell NetWare and GroupWise user, Tourism Calgary's decision to standardize its network on Microsoft Corp. technology was based on the IT manager's belief that Linux isn't quite ready for prime-time. | (7/6/2006) In order to manage and defend against an increasingly sophisticated threat environment, awareness and collaboration are crucial for government agencies to secure their online data. | (7/5/2006) Vendors will have a tough time meeting the fed's ICT needs in the 06-07 financial year, because not all agencies are forthcoming with procurement plans, according to market researcher Intermedium. | (6/29/2006) Yahoo has released user identities to Chinese authorities that have led to the jailing of dissidents; Google censors results in its China search engine; Microsoft has removed blogs written by Chinese journalists in MSN Spaces; and Cisco helps the Chinese government block access to Web sites by selling it network management gear. | (6/22/2006) The implementation of electronic medical records (EMRs) is not a choice for physicians, but an inevitable step towards fully utilizing IT in Canadian health care, according to industry experts. |
  | |  | | 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.
| |
|  | |  | |
|
|  |
| | |
| | |  |  | Knowledge Centres at a Glance |  | | | | |  | |  |  | | | | | |
|
|
|
