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(9/4/2008) Judy Estrin discusses the shortage of overall investment in science and engineering in the U.S. | (8/14/2008) Court order halts talk at Defcon hacker convention. EFF plans to appeal. | (8/8/2008) U of T spin-off develops Psiphon 2.0, allowing broadcasters to provide unfiltered coverage. Freeware version is available for individual use. | (7/22/2008) CIA metadata repository knowledge management system may lower internal error | (7/21/2008) Improving healthcare is near and dear to Canadian hearts, but the challenge for government is demonstrating meaningful progress towards goals to citizens. | (10/26/2007) More than half of U.S. residents want the government to regulate Internet video in some way, according to a poll released this week. Twenty-nine per cent of those surveyed said Internet video should be regulated just like television content, according to the poll, commissioned by 463 Communications, a Washington, D.C., public relations firm that specializes in high-tech issues. | (10/2/2007) Nearly nine in 10 IT managers fear the security risks caused by remote working practices, new research has revealed. The main concerns stem from the fact that hackers can use remote connections as a "back door" into the company network or to the risk of the corporate network by the use of unauthorized software and Internet access. | (8/22/2007) As the market continues to pick itself up from the rubbles of the dot-com bubble burst of the early 2000, some major shifts are transpiring in the IT employment market. As a result, recruiters in the IT space are noting some never-before-seen and previously dormant IT positions suddenly being in demand. | (8/7/2007) U.K. Members of Parliament have called on the government to speed up its efforts to promote data sharing between government departments and local authorities to boost the uptake of council tax benefits. The MPs acknowledged concerns over privacy, but noted witnesses' evidence that the public may not share the same fears about data protection. | (7/17/2007) Public-private shared service deals have helped to unlock US$3.3 trillion dollars in government cash globally, according to a recent report from global consultant firm A.T. Kearney Inc. Nine countries are included in the findings, including Canada, which is recognized for its best practices. | (6/29/2007) A collaboration that will investigate advanced delivery models for online services for citizens has been announced on behalf of the CSIRO ICT Centre and the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO). Director of the CSIRO ICT Centre Dr Alex Zelinsky says existing service delivery models do not take into account the tasks a person is trying to accomplish or the context in which they are working. |
  | |  | | 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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