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(6/6/2007) Lieutenant Commander Kent Penney is head of the Combat Camera team, which shows the public through photography and video the work that the Canadian Forces is doing in Afghanistan and around the world. In Part 1 of InterGovWorld's Spotlight on Penney, he sits down with senior writer Lisa Williams to discuss how he got his start in the Armed Forces, and how Combat Camera is an important tool not just for the media and public, but for members of the military as well. | (6/5/2007) Lieutenant Commander Kent Penney is head of the Combat Camera team, which shows the public through photography and video the work that the Canadian Forces is doing in Afghanistan and around the world. In Part 1 of InterGovWorld's Spotlight on Penney, he sits down with senior writer Lisa Williams to discuss how he got his start in the Armed Forces, and how Combat Camera is an important tool not just for the media and public, but for members of the military as well. | (5/29/2007) The Chinese military possesses dangerous first-strike cyberwar capabilities that include special units charged with developing viruses to attack enemy computer networks, a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) report has warned. One commentator says the report shows how China's military thinking on information warfare has radically switched to the offensive. | (5/22/2007) After days of tussling with several U.S. attorneys general, MySpace has agreed to provide AG offices in all states with information it has gathered on convicted sex offenders who have used its social networking site, the most popular of its kind. | (5/21/2007) After days of tussling with several U.S. attorneys general, MySpace has agreed to provide AG offices in all states with information it has gathered on convicted sex offenders who have used its social networking site, the most popular of its kind. | (4/23/2007) The U.S. government plans to establish a national identity theft law enforcement centre and create a public education campaign about the dangers of ID theft. A task force named by President George Bush yesterday also called for national data protection standards for companies that collect and sell personal information, as well as stronger public disclosure laws. | (4/10/2007) A wide-ranging government policy on broadband and healthy competition among providers gives Japanese customers greater speeds at a much cheaper price than U.S. customers pay, a Japanese telecom executive said recently. | (3/14/2007) The "fresh start" organization being set up to replace the failed Child Support Agency (CSA) will inherit its crisis-hit IT systems, work and pensions minister James Plaskitt has admitted. The axing of the CSA was confirmed in July last year, when ministers acknowledged the organization had b failedb and was not fit for purpose. | (3/5/2007) Privacy officials at all three levels of government have banded together in the fight against identity theft in the name of Fraud Prevention Month. Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Jennifer Stoddart, and her privacy colleagues agreed at a recent meeting that more action must be taken against identity fraud by law enforcement agencies, governments and all organizations. | (2/14/2007) Michael Hurst, the Industry Canada employee at the centre of an e-mail controversy in Yellowknife, may get to keep his government job for the price of 75 hours' community service. | (2/13/2007) A New York State senator hopes to introduce legislation that will make using an iPod on crosswalks illegal, according to news reports. |
  | |  | | 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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