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(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. | (3/28/2007) Australian author, explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery has urged the Canadian government to step up its efforts and act more decisively on climate change, as part of a mass global mobilization program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | (3/27/2007) Australian author, explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery has urged the Canadian government to step up its efforts and act more decisively on climate change, as part of a mass global mobilization program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | (3/26/2007) Australian author, explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery has urged the Canadian government to step up its efforts and act more decisively on climate change, as part of a mass global mobilization program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | (3/25/2007) Australian author, explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery has urged the Canadian government to step up its efforts and act more decisively on climate change, as part of a mass global mobilization program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | (3/16/2007) A Quebec medical practitioner says Canada's biggest problem with e-health is the lack of leaders among physicians to motivate the use of IT in their practices. A physician's work is more art than science, he says, and governments should open their coffers, offer more assistance and toughen their stance with legal requirements. | (3/6/2007) His main political rival controls three national television networks, a newspaper, a weekly magazine and a publishing house, so an Italian minister has decided to try to level the propaganda playing field by buying himself an island in Second Life. | (2/19/2007) Portugal has selected a vendor to produce a credit card-sized national ID card that can store biometric information such as fingerprints and a digital signature for online transactions. | (11/21/2006) The forecast for data centers isn't good for the short term: they're going to get hotter and a lot more cramped, according to Gartner Inc. analysts. |
  | |  | | 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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