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(11/14/2007) Auditor General Sheila Fraser recently issued her Annual Report which found, among other things, certain weaknesses in procedures for awarding industrial contracts, posing security risks to sensitive government information. Responding to the report, Public Works and Government Services Canada shares its "robust action plan" to enhance the department's security procedures. | (11/5/2007) Panelists at a U.S. Federal Trade Commission workshop on targeted online advertising said that online privacy policies need to be easier to understand and more conspicuous because few people now actually read them. | (10/30/2007) With baby boomers set to retire over the next five years, companies are becoming more innovative with how they attract and retain new workers, and the public sector is no exception. Last month, Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) launched a multi-media campaign aimed at attracting younger workers and recent post-secondary graduates in order to fill a shortage of over 300 workers within PWGSC. | (10/30/2007) With baby boomers set to retire over the next five years, companies are becoming more innovative with how they attract and retain new workers, and the public sector is no exception. Last month, Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) launched a multi-media campaign aimed at attracting younger workers and recent post-secondary graduates in order to fill a shortage of over 300 workers within PWGSC. | (10/22/2007) While innovation may be the obvious business mandate, plenty of companies are guilty of creating a culture where a good idea has as much opportunity to take root as most of us have of winning the lottery. Find out if you or your company is guilty of squashing good ideas and their growth. | (10/22/2007) While innovation may be the obvious business mandate, plenty of companies are guilty of creating a culture where a good idea has as much opportunity to take root as most of us have of winning the lottery. Find out if you or your company is guilty of squashing good ideas and their growth. | (10/18/2007) Although the public sector has begun to absorb recent advances in technology, such as voice over IP and service-oriented architectures, the stage is being set for yet another revolution. Wireless mobile devices are beginning to free citizens and government workers from the chains to their desks, and promise far-ranging impacts on economies and geographies. | (10/18/2007) Although the public sector has begun to absorb recent advances in technology, such as voice over IP and service-oriented architectures, the stage is being set for yet another revolution. Wireless mobile devices are beginning to free citizens and government workers from the chains to their desks, and promise far-ranging impacts on economies and geographies. | (10/18/2007) Although the public sector has begun to absorb recent advances in technology, such as voice over IP and service-oriented architectures, the stage is being set for yet another revolution. Wireless mobile devices are beginning to free citizens and government workers from the chains to their desks, and promise far-ranging impacts on economies and geographies. | (10/17/2007) The Defence Department has taken on the challenge of transforming its IT organization into a service-oriented entity for delivering information management services to the entire organization. The initiative's director, Len Bastien, provides the rationale behind this IM rationalization. | (9/19/2007) In electronic health care services, the use of personal information can be both critical and highly controversial. Michael Power, new chief privacy and security officer for Ontario's e-health system, feels like he's landed at ground zero in the debate over information technology and privacy protection. |
  | |  | | 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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