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(11/14/2007) IT departments have historically struggled with unnecessary complexities in managing existing systems as a result of duplicated assets and processes that achieve the same objectives. Forrester Research Inc. analyst Alexander Peters says the only way out of this web of redundancy is strategic consolidation. Peters offers three best practice approaches to an effective consolidation strategy. | (11/12/2007) The mayor of the District of Columbia in the U.S. has decided to withdraw a controversial e-mail policy that would have given messages stored on the D.C. government e-mail servers a six-month life period. The decision was made following criticisms from the public and city council members on the proposed policy, which was scheduled to go on a six-month pilot program beginning January 5 next year. | (11/1/2007) The Canadian government needs to strengthen collaboration in order to influence necessary research and development in health care technology. This was the message that came out loud and clear from industry experts at yesterday's Critical Care Canada Forum at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. | (10/18/2007) As the present-day threat for identity theft gets stronger than ever, privacy advocates believe Canadian legislation enacted to protect the privacy of personal information is dated. In the recent tabling of her Annual Report, Federal Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart urged Parliament to review and modernize the Privacy Act. | (10/12/2007) In an effort to strengthen their emergency measures, New Brunswick's Emergency Measures Organization, has selected crisis software to support emergency incident management efforts internally. The provincial agency has chosen ESS Crisis software in partnership with local responder agencies such as police and fire departments. | (10/9/2007) The U.S. federal government has shut down two California Web sites that were redirecting readers to unauthorized content, after the sites have been reportedly hacked. Late last week, compromised pages hosted by the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Superior Court of Madera County, California, were still hosting inappropriate content. | (10/3/2007) Any discussion of IT value is ultimately meaningless unless it's framed in terms of changes in business performance. Cost always matters for IT, but does not equate to value. IT performance must be connected to business performance to be meaningful to business executives. | (9/14/2007) In Canada, cross-jurisdictional initiatives designed to better share or integrate information are growing. The need for genuinely collaborative governance explains the recent protocol on public sector renewal signed by the respective heads of the Canadian and Ontario governments. | (9/6/2007) Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Version 3 is a move to tie IT and business functions closer together, according to Ottawa-based chief architect Sharon Taylor. The result of a two-and-a-half-year development process, ITIL Version 3 looks to build on a thorough set of guidelines presented in previous releases by concentrating on the life-cycle management of IT services, rather than merely the execution of processes. | (8/31/2007) Stephen Conroy, the Australian shadow minister for communications and IT, has smashed the federal government's Australia Connected initiative and promised to wipe out the broadband taskforce if Labor wins government. | (8/23/2007) In January 2006, Michael Witt was appointed deputy director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team within the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division. Network World national correspondent Carolyn Duffy Marsan interviewed Witt about the Estonian cyberattack and its implications for U.S. network managers. |
  | |  | | 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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