(2/26/2008) As the federal government prepares to table its 2008 budget, Bernard Courtois, the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) president and CEO, is hopeful that reforms will be made to the Canadian personal income tax regime. | (2/22/2008) In his address to local government leaders this week, Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers urged industry to team up with cities in order to battle climate change. Saying his views had changed from just five or six years ago, the head of the world's largest network builder cozied up to officials from municipalities around the world at the Connected Urban Development Global Conference in San Francisco. | (2/20/2008) How much reliability can you afford? Last Monday afternoon, BlackBerries stopped working again. For about three hours, the CrackBerry addicts couldn't get their mobile e-mail fix. The root cause: an unsuccessful infrastructure upgrade by BlackBerry vendor Research In Motion. | (2/12/2008) Canadian students living in remote or rural areas will soon get a boost in their education as a result of a partnership on behalf of Xerox Canada and Athabasca University in Alberta, which is aiming to develop a research program focused on advancing e-learning and mobile learning for students. | (2/11/2008) Many Canadian senior-level enterprise architects and data management types turned out for the MDM Canada Summit last week, which featured a panel discussion dubbed "Managing Master Data in the Very Large Enterprise" that yielded the best practices that have come out of the Hudson's Bay Company's and the Bank of Montreal's own MDM experience. | (1/30/2008) According to a recent report by Forrester Research Inc., IT managers and CIOs in large companies who have actively resisted embracing Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, RSS, blogs and social networks will likely begin adding them to their priority lists in 2008. | (1/29/2008) Post-secondary education students are set to benefit from $7.9 million in funding from the Alberta government's Innovation Fund. The funding will go towards 15 projects that aim to promote innovation, collaboration and participation in post-secondary education. | (1/22/2008) Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade officials plan to meet with representatives of the Information Technology Association of Canada to discuss ITAC's latest proposal to help the microelectronics industry in Ontario. | (1/16/2008) A secure e-mail specification for future use has been selected by The Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program, a shared effort between British and American defence agencies and aerospace partners to devise technologies for secure electronic collaboration. | (1/14/2008) The grassroots effort by thousands of Canadians on Facebook was one of the biggest factors in causing the government's delay of a controversial copyright reform bill last month. Now, that effort is expanding virtually all across the country. | (1/8/2008) Business intelligence is a crucial tool for attracting and retaining customers, adequately measuring company performance, and delivering flexibility, challenges remain. One of the most important: data governance. To the rescue: five dirty data practices you may be guilty of, and five ways to clean them up. |
  | |  | | 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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