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(7/17/2007) Australia's federal election this year will be the first to engage electronic voting that will allow blind or visually impaired people to vote at 29 locations. Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn, said the trial will be a first for electronically assisted voting at the federal level. | (6/19/2007) Lieutenant Commander Kent Penney is head of the Combat Camera team, which shows the public through photography and video the work that the Canadian Forces is doing around the world. It is work that is of special significance now with the current campaign in Afghanistan. In Part 1 of InterGovWorld's Spotlight on Penney, he sat down with senior writer Lisa Williams to discuss how he got his start in the Armed Forces, and how Combat Camera is an important tool not just for the media and public, but for members of the military as well. In Part 2, Penney talks about the switch to high-definition, and the amazing assignments that his team covers all over the world. | (6/18/2007) Lieutenant Commander Kent Penney is head of the Combat Camera team, which shows the public through photography and video the work that the Canadian Forces is doing around the world. It is work that is of special significance now with the current campaign in Afghanistan. In Part 1 of InterGovWorld's Spotlight on Penney, he sat down with senior writer Lisa Williams to discuss how he got his start in the Armed Forces, and how Combat Camera is an important tool not just for the media and public, but for members of the military as well. In Part 2, Penney talks about the switch to high-definition, and the amazing assignments that his team covers all over the world. | (5/18/2007) Toronto is among 16 cities around the world that may soon be monitoring their carbon emissions courtesy of Microsoft Corp. and the Clinton Foundation who are working together to develop free Web-based software and services. Yesterday's announcement came a day after former U.S. President Bill Clinton said his foundation would finance the renovation of buildings in the 16 cities to make them more environmentally friendly. | (4/19/2007) The U.K. Office of Government Commerce has launched a recruitment scheme aimed at developing more public sector procurement specialists. The government has been under pressure to improve the quality of procurement by its central departments, with costly major IT schemes highlighting weaknesses on the buying side. | (3/19/2007) The U.S. tax collecting department is warning taxpayers that the only URL for their Internal Revenue Service is IRS.gov. The IRS posted a note on its Web site last week alerting taxpayers of tax season scams and that Web sites like IRS.com are not affiliated with the U.S. government. | (3/12/2007) While there are major differences in the way health care is provided in Canada and New Zealand, both countries see a similar role for e-health in providing more effective services to their citizens. A group of New Zealand health experts has toured Canada and other countries looking at how they employ information technology in health care. | (3/12/2007) Ottawa turned on its 311 call centre in the fall of 2005 and also operates a walk-in service centre that's staffed by representatives from all three levels of government. After several years of planning, the national capital is ready to begin plans for upgrading to VoIP. | (3/12/2007) One benefit of federalism lies in the experimentation and learning that can occur across jurisdictions, such as provinces and municipalities. Federalism allows for a positive mixing of competitive and collaborative pressures and there is little reason for this balance not to extend beyond national borders. | (2/27/2007) Company intranets can be an effective way to communicate with your employees, but the plethora of information placed on them can detract from user-friendliness and usefulness. Streamlining your intranet may be easier than you think. In fact, it could be only 10 steps away. | (2/26/2007) The U.S. Department of Defense's lead intelligence agency is using wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and enterprise "mashups" to help its analysts collaborate better when sifting through data used to support military operations. |
  | |  | | 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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