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(8/3/2007) The federal government supports SOA development across the public sector and has posted two documents outlining SOA strategy and a series primer. Gary Doucet, executive director of architecture for the CIO branch of Treasury Board Secretariat, says the concepts of SOA and service orientation overlap. | (7/27/2007) The U.S. Treasury Department is not managing its technology dollars as well as it could be, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office. In particular, the GAO cited a need for Treasury officials to improve the coordination between the agency's IT and business managers on proposed technology investments. | (7/23/2007) After Prime Minister Gordon Brown introduced new data sharing powers into his proposed program of legislation, U.K. opposition Members of Parliament have cautioned that the changes are not receiving adequate scrutiny. Fears about increasing levels of data sharing and surveillance have also been stoked by the news that the Home Office plans to hand data on millions of people's car journeys to police to use in anti-terrorism work - and possibly for wider crime fighting purposes. | (7/19/2007) E-mail was supposed to lessen workloads, but if anything it would seem to be adding to them. Anyone who's been away from their office for only a few days knows only too well what will greet them upon their return - a virtual mountain of e-mail. And e-mail attachments have become a staccato series of shooting pains for many a CIO. Today's attachments keep getting bigger, with no end in sight. | (7/19/2007) E-mail was supposed to lessen workloads, but if anything it would seem to be adding to them. Anyone who's been away from their office for only a few days knows only too well what will greet them upon their return - a virtual mountain of e-mail. And e-mail attachments have become a staccato series of shooting pains for many a CIO. Today's attachments keep getting bigger, with no end in sight. | (6/28/2007) Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin had harsh words for government organizations that he says are over-promising and under-delivering. In Marinb s second annual report released yesterday, he said that grandiose promises made by these organizations have been revealed to be b pufferyb under close examination by his office. | (6/27/2007) According to a recent survey, funding and security are top concerns for government agencies when it comes to unified communications systems that integrate voice, video and data over Internet Protocol. "We're talking to the boots-on-the-ground program managers, IT directors who are really charged and tasked with getting some of this stuff done," said Aaron Heffron, vice president of Market Connections Inc., which conducted the survey for Cisco Systems Inc. | (6/11/2007) Ontariob s Information and Privacy Commissioner has released a five-point security checklist for wireless video surveillance systems, following a freak drive-by interception of a wireless transmission at a health clinic that showed a patient providing a urine sample. Ann Cavoukianb s office has also made available a fact sheet on the Commissionerb s official Web site to further increase awareness among health-care providers about wireless video surveillance. | (5/16/2007) The typical response to trouble - the deer caught in the headlights - is exactly why organizations need a detailed incident response plan. Incident response goes beyond business continuity and disaster recover, outlining specific details to efectively respond to data security breaches and network crashes. Given their breadth and specificity, these documents are usually lengthy and in need of regular upkeep. Here are five points that all IT-specific plans should contain. | (5/15/2007) The typical response to trouble - the deer caught in the headlights - is exactly why organizations need a detailed incident response plan. Incident response goes beyond business continuity and disaster recover, outlining specific details to efectively respond to data security breaches and network crashes. Given their breadth and specificity, these documents are usually lengthy and in need of regular upkeep. Here are five points that all IT-specific plans should contain. | (5/7/2007) Spotlight on Anil Arora, director general of the census program at Statistics Canada. In conversation with senior writer Lisa Williams, Arora explains how good project management practices prop up the national census, what was behind the controversy surrounding the outsourcing deal with Lockheed Martin, and how StatsCan mobilized a powerhouse task force to address urgent questions on procurement. |
  | |  | | 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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