(9/19/2006) A recently rolled out financial tracking system at the University of Alberta (UA) hopes to ensure research dollars don't go over -- or under -- budget. | (9/12/2006) European and U.S. security officials were locked in talks in Brussels Monday to replace a passenger data sharing agreement that was outlawed by a European court in May. | (9/7/2006) A broadband pilot project in the rural community of Chapleau, Ont. is fixing to stimulate economic development. | (8/2/2006) A trilingual Web tool recently launched in the community of Kanesatake, Quebec hopes to revitalize the nearly extinct Mohawk language. | (7/25/2006) The recently created Ontario Ministry of Small Business and Entrepreneurship has launched a Web site aimed at providing easily accessible resources with the click of a button. | (7/12/2006) At the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum Africa on Tuesday, Microsoft Corp. announced a number of initiatives in cooperation with local and global organizations that are aimed in part at boosting tourism in Africa as a way to spur economic development on the continent. | (7/10/2006) Industry Minister Maxime Bernier went a long way towards clearing up a murky picture when he told the audience at The 2006 Canadian Telecom Summit last month that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) should regulate the telecom market only when absolutely necessary. While Bernier's message was welcome, the challenge now will be for the government to follow through on its plans.
| (5/23/2006) Research group National ICT Australia (NICTA) has received an additional A$250 million (CDN$210.8 million) in funding from the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) and the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). | (4/10/2006) Electronic sharing of health information is still in the Wild West stage of US federal regulation, privacy advocates say. | (4/7/2006) An IBM supercomputer directly related to the famous Deep Blue that battled chess grand master Gary Kasparov in 1997 has recently been recruited to aid Canadian researchers in the fight against cancer. | (3/30/2006) The Conservatives' first few months in power have not been uneventful. As the new Cabinet gets to work and Parliament reconvenes, an agenda presents itself that is at once busy and risky for a minority government: an inaugural budget, child care and health care changes, softwood lumber and new defence spending, Senate elections and institutional change and, perhaps, eventually, even a free vote on the definition of marriage. |
  | |  | | 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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