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(9/13/2007) High-tech consumer products and services of all kinds are making their way into the workplace. They include everything from smart phones, voice-over-IP systems and flash memory sticks to virtual online worlds. And as people grow more accustomed to having their own personal technology at their beck and call, the line between what they use for work and what they use for recreation is blurring. | (9/13/2007) High-tech consumer products and services of all kinds are making their way into the workplace. They include everything from smart phones, voice-over-IP systems and flash memory sticks to virtual online worlds. And as people grow more accustomed to having their own personal technology at their beck and call, the line between what they use for work and what they use for recreation is blurring. | (8/16/2007) A plan to tackle privacy and security issues that continue to hamper the launch of the Australian Government's A$1.1 billion Access Card was released by the Biometrics Institute recently. The plan follows continuing parliamentary debate which has stalled the Access Card legislation with members of the Senate seeking additional privacy safeguards. | (8/10/2007) A new Wi-Fi network in Minneapolis - only partially completed and just two months old - is nonetheless giving the city critical help in responding to last week's collapse of a highway bridge. The network helped the city with communications, moving large mapping files to the recovery site, and is supporting wireless cameras that are being installed to help with recovery operations. | (7/3/2007) A recent survey of online voters in the Town of Markham 2006 election may point to the future of e-voting in Canadian municipalities. In partnership with the Town of Markham, the survey is part of research conducted by Toronto-based Delvinia Interactive that began in 2003 to track online voter feedback. | (6/12/2007) In case you haven't heard, information technology is going "green" - or at least making the attempt. In a perfect world, we'd all be motivated to do our part, but a considerable amount of evidence suggests green is far from top-of-mind for many IT purchasers. In truth, many business and IT professionals couldn't care less about green. | (6/4/2007) Law enforcement officials in Germany and Austria are now among the first to have electronic access to each other's fingerprint databases, the German Interior Ministry said yesterday. Support for tough security measures has grown in Germany and other E.U. member states that worry about international terrorism, organized crime and, increasingly, cyber-crime. | (5/27/2007) Last month's Virginia Tech shootings have become a call to action for many university IT managers, who are being asked to find new methods of communicating quickly with students and workers during emergencies. Among the new initiatives is a pilot program in which cell phones are equipped with applications useful for classes and campus life. | (5/17/2007) MySpace has been asked by attorneys general in eight states to turn over the names of potentially thousands of registered sex offenders who may be members of the social networking site. They asked MySpace to tell them how many registered sex offenders they've identified on the site and what the company is doing to remove them. | (5/14/2007) Connecting for Health, which runs the NHS National Programme for IT has confirmed that problems with a software upgrade in Manchester led to hundreds of duplicate patient records being created. The existence of duplicate records could lead to doctors receiving incomplete clinical information where updates have been made to a patient's other record. | (5/9/2007) Terrorism, escalating crime and illegal immigration have pushed the British government closer to dropping a tight electronic curtain over its borders. Scheduled for implementation over the next seven years, Britain is testing several technologies as part of its "e-Borders" program, which aims for more thorough oversight over travelers coming to the U.K. |
  | |  | | 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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