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(5/8/2008) Young drivers are often clumped into one broad "under 25" category by law enforcement, insurance companies and society at large. The bad judgements and accidents of a small proportion of joy-riders and novices demonize the rest. But GPS-based tracking technologies are now being used to track individual behaviour and even to change it. | (5/2/2008) Over 600 staff at the U.K. HM Revenue and Customs agency have been disciplined or fired in a three year period after they accessed sensitive data without authorization. Jane Kennedy, financial secretary to the Treasury, said the staff were either given a warning or were sacked following "inappropriate access to personal or sensitive data". | (11/2/2007) Much of the discussion around IT governance and service transformation centres on the public sector's internal architecture. The undertone of such conversations is technological organizational innovation. Interesting to note that despite this being government, politics has no role - elected officials apparently not required. | (10/10/2007) The federal and provincial governments are also collaborating on ways that IT can cut the waiting for many services such as cancer treatment and hip replacement. Canada Health Infoway says IT could make booking health care as easy as ordering airline tickets. Wanted: Workable ways to reduce wait-times. | (10/4/2007) Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand has been accused of reinterpreting the law and defying the will of Parliament, for declaring that women with veils donb t have to remove them when they vote. If Canada had a national identity registry in place, this would not have been an issue. | (9/17/2007) Canadians and Americans will soon be breezing across the border between British Columbia and the state of Washington with pilot trials of RFID-enabled drivers' licences, as a replacement to passports or other travel documents. But the technology that will be used in the proposed trials does not allow data encryption. | (8/31/2007) Since 2005, phones sold in the United States have been GPS-enabled to accommodate the FCC E911 regulation requiring that cell phone carriers be able to locate specific phones for 911 emergency calls. But there's a big issue raising its head. At least in theory, this increased location monitoring means you can be tracked by a lot of folks now, at least according to the Privacy Rights Clearing House. | (8/27/2007) Repeated attempts by the Australian government to get the Access Card legislation through parliament has stalled, with future plans for the smartcard now on hold until at least 2008. Human Services Minister Chris Ellison has admitted the government's original timetable, which involved getting the legislation through both houses of parliament by June 2007, was far too ambitious. | (8/2/2007) Taking an enterprise view can help to guide an organization to improved planning, decision-making, communications and business direction. It's also time-consuming and requires ongoing investment to support. It's not a one-time quick fix, either. The promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the ability to better automate business processes and implement changes quickly. | (8/1/2007) Taking an enterprise view can help to guide an organization to improved planning, decision-making, communications and business direction. It's also time-consuming and requires ongoing investment to support. It's not a one-time quick fix, either. The promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the ability to better automate business processes and implement changes quickly. | (7/30/2007) California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has revealed that researchers commissioned by the State of California have found security issues in every electronic voting system they tested. Testers were able to overwrite firmware, bypass locks on the systems, forge voter cards, and even secretly install a wireless device. |
  | |  | | 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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