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(7/31/2007) How often have you heard, "I'm not sure you can do that; there isn't a policy in place?" I hear it too often, because I hate writing policies. And I hate writing policies because at a very engineering-centric company like mine, generic policies don't go over well. | (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. | (7/11/2007) The surprise of the SARS outbreak taught many organizations that their disaster recovery and business continuity plans were insufficient. Toronto, Ont.-based electricity provider, Hydro One, was no exception, said the company's Dave Baumken, manager of emergency preparedness and business continuity planning. "We didn't have anything in place for high volumes of staff absenteeism," said Baumken. | (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. | (6/26/2007) With this year's New York Senate and Assembly session now ended, local voting activists are chalking up a victory for the public at the expense of Microsoft Corp. and the e-voting industry. The activists had feared that Microsoft and a handful of e-voting device vendors would quietly weaken the state's strict e-voting software escrow law before the current legislative session ended on Friday. | (6/22/2007) Growth remains a top priority for CEOs, with revenue growth and increasing market share outstripping lowering the cost base as strategic priorities. Because of this, enterprises are seeking to deepen their penetration in home markets and enter new markets. | (6/21/2007) Citing national security reasons, French government members and their advisors have been told not to use BlackBerry smartphones. The ban on BlackBerry devices is just one of the IT challenges facing new National Assembly members as they take their seats following Sunday's elections. | (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. | (3/22/2007) While the federal budget does include several measures that prop up Canada's role on the global information technology stage, industry observers say the budget tabled this week really falls short of expectations. |
  | |  | | 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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