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(5/5/2008) Manitoba's Attorney General Dave Chomiak has announced proposed legislative amendments which would allow Manitoba to develop a voluntary enhanced driver's licence, as well as an ID card that would meet border travel requirements in the United States. | (4/30/2008) Mislaying personal data may soon become a criminal offence in the U.K. The House of Lords has backed an amendment to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, proposed by Liberal Democrat Lady Miller. | (4/22/2008) Small businesses are not consulting the government for IT guidance, even though they often lack expertise themselves, according to a new report. The limited money and IT expertise available to small businesses meant they were dependent on the government for advice, the University of London report said. | (4/17/2008) The government of Alberta is set to launch a variety of initiatives aimed at improving the public health system. The action plan that the government has outlined includes the introduction of new technologies to help Albertans access and understand the health system, which will be announced over the next nine months. | (4/16/2008) Following the chaotic opening of Terminal 5, British Airways has announced that two of its senior executives will leave the company. The opening of Terminal 5 (T5) in March was beset by a catalogue of problems when a high-tech baggage system broke down and log-on problems left staff unable to get into work. | (4/8/2008) I've been looking into the correlation between identity monitoring and data loss prevention technologies. Can you clarify if these two go hand-in-hand and if so, the best ways to use them to get maximum efficiency? Many companies are examining the relationship between identity monitoring and data loss prevention (DLP), driven by the need to know who is on the network, what data are they seeing, and which actions are they taking with that data. | (4/3/2008) Twenty-three million Taiwan citizens will be issued biometric e-passports by the second half of 2008, under the new National Identity System (NIS) developed by Hewlett-Packard. The project aims to improve the detection of forged or altered passports and to ensure more convenient travel across borders. | (4/2/2008) IBM announced earlier this week that they have received a grand jury summons from the U.S. Attorney's Office over possible procurement violations between employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and certain IBM employees. | (3/24/2008) Britain is under increased threat from state-sponsored cyber attacks, the government says, and it plans to spend on IT to tackle them. Announcing the publication of the first National Security Strategy for the U.K. last week, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the government will "modernize its interception capability." | (3/14/2008) Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced New York governor making headlines this week for being linked to a prostitution ring, is perhaps best known for his aggressive takedown of unethical Wall Street firms during his days as attorney general. But the former prosecutor also played a big role in cleaning up the high-tech and network industries. | (3/10/2008) The world can't get enough wireless. Canada's Research in Motion has put a whole desktop of communication in anybody's pocket. In California, rental cars now have optional high-speed Internet service. |
  |  |  | | 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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