(10/29/2007) If you are in charge of a project, you can be lulled into a false sense of security as the weeks go by, yet the status reports become a paper trail that comes back to haunt you. Because important information is in those reports somewhere and because you don't see it, you will pay the consequences unless you take steps to make sure key issues and potential problems are clearly highlighted. | (9/10/2007) It would appear that the German government is sending mixed messages when it comes to computer hacking. After passing antihacking legislation earlier this year to crack down on the sharp rise in computer attacks in the public and private sectors, the government is now floating a plan to develop and smuggle its own spyware on to the hard drives of suspected terrorists through e-mail messages. | (8/27/2007) Companies are facing increasing difficulty in their efforts to find qualified data centre managers, since the required skills have expanded beyond IT expertise to a mix of IT, facilities and security management abilities. | (8/22/2007) As the market continues to pick itself up from the rubbles of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000, some major shifts are transpiring in the IT employment market. As a result, recruiters in the IT space are noting some never-before-seen and previously dormant IT positions suddenly being in demand. | (8/16/2007) The U.K. government has admitted that fresh delays have hit its scandal-hit Libra project to provide a case management computer system and infrastructure for magistrates courts. It is the second recent blow to justice system IT projects, following the announcement earlier this week of a review of the C-Nomis offender management system. | (8/13/2007) A proposed revamp of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's air passenger screening program offers improved personal privacy, but still falls short of acceptable protection standards, according to a leading privacy advocate. The Transportation Security Administration, part of DHS, will maintain direct control of checking domestic passenger lists against terrorist watch lists. | (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. | (7/13/2007) Nortel president and CEO Mike Zafirovski is set to receive a nomination to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee from President George W. Bush. The committee serves in an advisory capacity to the U.S. president and provides recommendations and analysis on a variety of technical and policy issues on areas including telecommunications, infrastructure protection and national security. | (7/4/2007) A deadline of just under a month has been given to critics to reshape last weekb s agreement that allows European passengersb personal data to be shared with U.S. authorities before it comes into effect, according to Stavros Lambrinidis, vice president of the European Parliament's civil liberties committee. | (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) Not only is identity theft becoming more common in Canada, it would appear that the U.S. is ahead of Canada with respect to tackling the problem. A recent cross-country survey reveals that nearly one in 15 Canadians has been a victim of the crime and one in six knows someone who has been victimized by ID thieves. |
  | |  | | 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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