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(4/10/2006) About 200 citizen lobbyists called for the US Congress to require that electronic voting machines include paper-trail records when the group descended on Washington, DC, this week. | (3/9/2006) The Australian government has decided not to introduce new laws to protect customers from a marketing technique used by phone companies which is called "slamming".
| (3/8/2006) Three Chinese industry groups have undertaken an effort to educate Chinese government departments about laws that prohibit procurement tenders from requiring a specific product brand, an Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) spokeswoman said Tuesday. | (3/8/2006) Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday denied providing Chinese authorities with information that led to the arrest of a Chinese journalist on charges of incitement to subversion.
| (2/24/2006) Australia's Northern Territory government recently announced A$150 million (US$110.6 million) desktop services contract with Fujitsu over incumbent CSC is an example of how competition can drive value, according to the department's project director for corporate and information services, Brad Irvine.
| (2/10/2006) A recent survey of 1095 consumers, conducted by IDC's Health Industry Insights, reveals a significant number of respondents (70 per cent) are unaware of the U.S. government's initiative to make electronic health records (EHRs) available to citizens by 2014. | (2/6/2006) Privacy has become a partisan issue in the U.S. In the past, bills written to protect consumers' private information typically got the backing from both Republicans and Democrats. Last May, for example, the House passed an antispyware bill 395-1. But now Republicans and Democrats are drawing clear lines on what they support.
| (2/1/2006) Once a month, voices are heard from Alaska to Massachusetts. A growing coalition of more than 200 state, regional and community-based initiatives who are driving healthcare transformation through HIT and health information exchange participate in an afternoon phone conference to share on-the-ground experiences. The real-world knowledge gained from these fellow warriors is invaluable to initiatives that may be just gearing up or are already exchanging information electronically to support improvements in the quality and efficiency of healthcare.
| (2/1/2006) For most communities in Canada, getting to school means taking a bus, riding a bike or walking down the street. But for the kids at the Keewaytinook Internet High School (KiHS) in Northern Ontario, all it means is: Logging on. | (2/1/2006) Orillia and area residents will have better access to better care, thanks to the approval of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine at Soldiers' Memorial Hospital in Orillia, Health and Long-Term Care Minister George Smitherman announced today.
| (1/27/2006) Chinese hackers launched a major attack on the U.K. Parliament earlier this month, the governmentb s email filtering company MessageLabs Ltd. has confirmed. |
  | |  | | 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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