(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. | (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. | (12/13/2007) Minister of Industry Jim Prentice has urged greater competition and increased innovation in the wireless sector. His comments were made during Industry Canada's release last week of details on how the auction for Advanced Wireless Services spectrum, set for May 27 2008, will be conducted. | (12/11/2007) A few hundred kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, the gold rush town of Dawson City's wealth of natural beauty and long summer days have drawn a colony of artists. That community spawned the Dawson City Art Society, which took a dilapidated Odd Fellows Hall and, with the help of volunteers, governments and NGOs, created the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) School of Visual Art, a school to deliver the first year of a Bachelor of Arts program. | (12/11/2007) A few hundred kilometres south of the Arctic Circle, the gold rush town of Dawson City's wealth of natural beauty and long summer days have drawn a colony of artists. That community spawned the Dawson City Art Society, which took a dilapidated Odd Fellows Hall and, with the help of volunteers, governments and NGOs, created the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) School of Visual Art, a school to deliver the first year of a Bachelor of Arts program. | (11/29/2007) Building public trust in government was the topic of a recent symposium in Ottawa. The Ponemon Institute's founder, Larry Ponemon, offers some research-backed recommendations as to how to build and maintain citizen trust. | (11/16/2007) The 2007 Canadian Information Productivity Awards recognized 24 winners from the public and private sectors, in what was the largest entry turnout in the event's history. InterGovWorld spoke to two of the winners from the public sector - the City of Calgary and B.C. Ministry of Labour and Citizens' Services - about their winning entries. | (11/1/2007) The Information Technology Association of Canada has launched an ongoing b structured dialogueb between the Ontario government and IT industry, to bridge the gap between health care professionals and IT suppliers to better understand each otherb s needs and capabilities. | (10/24/2007) IT officials from three California cities detailed their experiences earlier this week with trying to set up municipal wireless networks. Speaking during the MuniWireless conference in Santa Clara, Calif., they noted development plans for these networks, both for public services and to bridge the digital divide between those with Internet access and those without. | (10/18/2007) The Information Technology Association of Canada will launch an ongoing "structured dialogue" between the Ontario government and IT industry in a bid bridge the gap between health care professionals and IT suppliers to better understand each other's needs and capabilities, officials said. | (10/15/2007) One of the more compelling capabilities of Web 2.0 is how it changes the basic Web paradigm from "publish" to "participate." What this means for the Canadian government is a necessary evolution in its business operations, says federal Chief Information Officer Ken Cochrane. |
  | |  | | 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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