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(3/1/2006) It seems to me there has been precious little public dialogue on patient wait times since the middle of last month when newly-minted Prime Minister Stephen Harper reiterated his government's plan to negotiate a Patient Wait Times Guarantee with the provinces, and in doing so commended the Quebec's plan to ensure patients receive timely access to vital services. | (2/24/2006) In an unexpected move, Microsoft Corp. Thursday posted on its Web site its formal response to the European Commission's Statement of Objections, complaints made in the European Union's (EU's) antitrust case against the company.
| (2/24/2006) A group of technology chief executives are calling on the U.S. Congress and President George Bush's administration to create a "21st century" radio spectrum policy that would transfer poorly used government spectrum to private companies.
| (2/21/2006) The state of New York is being threatened with a federal lawsuit for failing to comply with the Help America Vote Act, which requires actions such as the development of statewide voter-registration databases and the installation of e-voting systems or other voting machines that are handicapped-accessible.
| (2/20/2006) Consumer advocacy groups are outraged at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) decision, announced yesterday, to funnel $652.7 million resulting from deliberate overbillings of telephone customers to expansion of broadband services instead of refunding the money. | (2/14/2006) China's State Council, the country's highest bureaucratic body, has issued a set of regulations governing China's entertainment industry that ban the use of pirated products at entertainment venues.
| (2/14/2006) A number of government agency Web sites are still not fully compliant with accessibility guidelines and are unlikely to be so until at least the latter half of this year, but the New Zealand State Services Commission is already revising its guidelines.
| (2/1/2006) The Federal Government Wednesday announced a major review of the Privacy Act. The review, which will be undertaken by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) will examine changes in technology since the laws were first introduced.
| (2/1/2006) Google Inc. plans to launch a search service aimed at Chinese users this week that will block results deemed sensitive to Beijing, a decision the company struggled with before deciding it's better to provide some service rather than none at all.
| (2/1/2006) Around the world, governments without national identity cards are trying to implement them. Canada is no exception; for public officials who struggle with the challenge of identifying and authenticating citizens before they can deliver programs or services, a single comprehensive card is like a dream come true, especially if it is functional in a digital environment.
| (2/1/2006) Governments are under increasing pressure to improve the quality and cost effectiveness of service delivery. The pressure comes as most governments face a shortfall of resources. Citizens in a consumer-oriented society, influenced in part by the growing sophistication of the web, expect governments to offer them choices on how they can access, receive and b in some cases b pay for services. |
  | |  | | 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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