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(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. | (3/12/2007) A decade ago, Bruce Phillips, the Privacy Commissioner of the day, was asked how we should protect privacy from the spread of new technologies through governments. He replied that they should always have to seek citizens' consent for how they use their personal information. If governments and businesses are bound by the same principle, they have tended to apply it differently, partly in response to cues from the public. Comparing the two yields a couple of timely lessons. | (3/8/2007) Information Technology (IT) managers around the world should brace themselves for a staggering surge in the volume of digital information within the next three years, according to a recent study by research firm IDC in Framingham, Mass. | (3/8/2007) Information Technology (IT) managers around the world should brace themselves for a staggering surge in the volume of digital information within the next three years, according to a recent study by research firm IDC in Framingham, Mass. | (2/28/2007) IT security is at the top of the priority list for U.S. government chief information officers. It's also an area where CIOs are making progress, according to a survey released Monday by the Information Technology Association of America. | (2/23/2007) On par with a trip to the dentist's office, IT budgeting tends to rank fairly low on any CIO's list of favourite activities. While alternative approaches to forecasting corporate IT expenditures won't necessarily make the process any less tedious or painful, progressive new budgeting practices could make life easier in the long run. | (2/21/2007) It may be reminiscent of the days leading up to the Y2K phenomenon, but the IT implications of the early switch to daylight saving time (DST) next month may not be as dreadful as some might think. | (1/19/2007) Privacy advocates have asked Parliament to enact legislation that will require organizations to report and notify their customers if protection of their personal information has been breached. | (1/8/2007) In an effort to speed the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) the U.S. federal government modified anti-kickback laws, but many hospitals still fear providing EMR technology to docs at cut-rate prices. | (12/6/2006) A U.S. government plan to use radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in a proposed passport card program for U.S. citizens is drawing fire from some quarters. The identification cards would be needed by residents who don't have passports for verifying their identity at land and sea border crossings. |
  | |  | | 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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