(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. | (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. | (6/15/2007) Heading up the IT infrastructure of the Vancouver Olympics in 2010 is sure to be a daunting challenge but is a role that Ward Chapin has accepted - with a little trepidation. "I kind of felt like the dog that chased the car and caught it," Chapin told a crowd of attendees on Tuesday at the Global Connect conference. | (5/27/2007) An electronic revolution is taking place at the George Washington University , whose CIO last week called for technologies that can help satisfy increasing user demands for support of Web 2.0 technologies. But some users say management concerns about control, security and trade-secret exposure will deter organizations from ever embracing Web 2.0 tools. | (5/9/2007) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Ga., are looking to implement software from SAP AG for a vaccine and immunization system, to be used by approximately 44,000 provider offices across the United States. | (4/25/2007) The Government of Canada must more fully embrace the principles and practices of enterprise business in order to transform the federal public service into a slick, efficient organization, says Jim Libbey, executive director of Treasury Board Secretariat. While standardization, cost savings and improving internal corporate services are among the biggest drivers for shared services, much more needs to done to achieve really significant improvements in productivity. | (4/5/2007) A recent ruling by Canada's Privacy Commissioner has brought into sharp focus gaps in our privacy legislation. Jennifer Stoddart, recently ruled that an international organization acted legally when it divulged personal data of Canadians to the U.S. government. | (3/21/2007) While it may be easy for the U.S. government to get information on its citizens, it isn't always so easy to obtain information on federal agencies. A report issued this week found widespread failure among federal agencies to follow the Electronic Freedom of Information Act amendments that took effect in 1997. |
  | |  | | 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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