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(3/6/2006) Have your projects ever been delayed by requisite approvals and other bureaucratic procedures? In the IT business, youb re not alone. When all an IT executive wants is to do their job and do it well, but ends up spending more time dealing with bureaucracy and b red tape,b itb s frustrating.
| (3/3/2006) Western media was abuzz Wednesday with reports, citing an English-language story on the Web site of the official People's Daily newspaper, that China plans to create a set of Chinese-language domain names as part of a bid to split China off from the Internet. There was just one problem: the story wasn't true.
| (2/15/2006) One of the current trends of e-government is the increasing expectation that governments should move to the more serious terrain of value measurement. | (2/15/2006) More than 50 Ontario hospitals are saving about $40,000 per month after moving to Smart System for Health Agency's (SSHA) health card validation system from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's network. | (2/6/2006) The Thames Valley Hospital Planning Partnership (TVHPP) is improving patient care with its newly acquired ability to access and exchange medical images and information, according to both its radiology chief and CIO. Hewlett-Packard Canada Co. (HP) announced Monday that the TVHPP, consisting of eight health care institutions in Southwestern Ontario, has implemented the HP Medical Archiving Solution. | (2/1/2006) The Australian federal Attorney General's Department has slashed software spending by 18 percent a year following a widespread review of existing contracts. | (2/1/2006) Election officials in Florida's Leon County are scrambling to comply with state and federal voting laws after the county's preferred vendor for optical scan voting systems backed out of an informal deal.
| (1/31/2006) Several privacy and civil-liberties organizations are mounting a legal challenge to prevent VoIP and other Internet-based communications from being subject to taps from law-enforcement agencies.
| (1/31/2006) Companies struggling to keep up with a patchwork of US state laws related to data privacy and information security have three more to contend with, as new security-breach notification laws went into effect in Illinois, Louisiana and New Jersey on Jan. 1.
| (1/30/2006) About 365,000 hospice and home health care patients in Oregon and Washington are being notified about the theft of computer backup data disks and tapes late last month that included personal information and confidential medical records.
| (1/30/2006) About 365,000 hospice and home health care patients in Oregon and Washington are being notified about the theft of computer backup data disks and tapes late last month that included personal information and confidential medical records. |
  | |  | | 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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