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(7/3/2007) John Grey, chair of HPb s Environmental Strategy Council, addressed the companyb s environmental programs and goals at a recent roundtable. Grey discussed their promise to reduce energy consumption, and the impact that HPb s video collaboration tool, Halo, has had on the b greenb movement. | (6/28/2007) The decision by Telus to call off its proposed merger with BCE earlier this week was met by surprise, but analysts are saying this decision may be a good thing for Canadian enterprise customers. Despite waging a high-profile public relations campaign last week with its chief executive arguing about the need for a truly national player, Telus issued a terse statement that it would not submit an offer as part of BCE's strategic review. The Western incumbent blamed "inadequacies of BCE's bid process" as the reason for the about-face. | (6/19/2007) CIOs are making headlines these days, but not always for the right reasons. Security breaches, crashed Web sites and other public technical snafus create the kinds of crises that put IT leaders front and centre. How you follow up in the immediate aftermath of a crisis can affect not only how the event is perceived, but also how successfully you'll avoid trouble in the future. | (6/18/2007) CIOs are making headlines these days, but not always for the right reasons. Security breaches, crashed Web sites and other public technical snafus create the kinds of crises that put IT leaders front and centre. How you follow up in the immediate aftermath of a crisis can affect not only how the event is perceived, but also how successfully you'll avoid trouble in the future. | (6/18/2007) The Technology CEO Council, an advocacy group representing several tech vendor CEOs, has been meeting with U.S. presidential candidates with the hopes of receiving an encouraging response to the policies they are pushing. The council, whose members include the chief executives of Intel Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., and Dell Inc., has met with several presidential candidates in recent months, says Bruce Mehlman, executive director of the group. | (6/14/2007) Making sense of the immense piles of disjointed data amassed by government is paramount. Translating public spending into meaningful results is what earns it credibility. System integration, information lifecycle management and other initiatives to re-order information processing will take years to come to fruition. What to do in the interim with existing data and systems? | (6/7/2007) Canadian government IT executives recognize that data disorder in the public sector is unsustainable, but no one province has all the necessary resources to tackle all the issues. Instead of working in isolation, a new sub-committee has been formed to develop common standards and guidelines across all levels of government. | (5/23/2007) A 10-year strategic vision for the ICT industry was launched this week by a consortium of 20 industry associations aiming to develop an internationally competitive ICT sector in Australia. The consortium has put forward a Vision Statement containing 12 parameters said to be vital to Australia's economic prosperity, because of the role of ICT as an enabling technology that supports all sectors of the economy. | (4/17/2007) Recently, Liberal MP Marlene Jennings reintroduced the Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act (MITA) as Bill C-416. The private member's bill is a peculiar choice for pushing forward the Liberal's tough-on-crime agenda considering the bill's unpopularity and shortcomings when first introduced in November 2005 and subsequently died on the order paper when the previous government fell. | (4/13/2007) The formation of Local Health Integration Networks (LHIN) in Ontario marks an important new chapter in the organization and delivery of health care in Canada's largest province. Although technology and the emergence of e-health are important drivers of this experiment in regionalization, governance will ultimately be the key determinant of success or failure. | (3/20/2007) Biometrics and encryption aren't exactly new. For most of us, neither is wildly exciting either. But the prospect of combining these two security pieces has sparked a call to action by Ontario's privacy commissioner. |
  | |  | | 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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