(3/21/2007) While it may be easy for the U.S. government to get information on its citizens, it isn't always so easy to obtain information on federal agencies. A report issued this week found widespread failure among federal agencies to follow the Electronic Freedom of Information Act amendments that took effect in 1997. | (3/12/2007) The world of diagnostics has been made a smaller place thanks to Malaria TV. The newly developed system will allow a diagnostician to view in real time the blood sample of a patient in another part of the country or the world. | (3/7/2007) Canadian physicians want to use more online tools to consult with their patients, but they say there are obstacles. And one of those obstacles is remuneration. | (3/7/2007) Canadian physicians want to use more online tools to consult with their patients, but they say there are obstacles. And one of those obstacles is remuneration. | (2/5/2007) The news may be a little dated and You've likely moved on to other stories. But sometimes a bit of distance brings new clarity to complex issues. So now that a few weeks have passed since Time Magazine declared You "Person of the Year," let's ask: Where do You go from here? | (1/30/2007) MPs were trickling back into Ottawa last week for the next Parliamentary session set to resume on Monday. The Conservative caucus arrived extra early for two days of meetings on Parliament Hill and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty took time out to speak with reporters. | (1/25/2007) The U.S. military should embrace user-driven Web services such as wikis, video-sharing sites and social-networking sites as its focus grows to include providing more security and reconstruction help, a defense analyst recommended Wednesday. | (1/15/2007) When it comes to the management of large IT projects the federal government is failing, according to Auditor General Sheila Fraser's November report that found only two of the seven large IT projects examined met all the criteria for well-managed projects. | (12/22/2006) In keeping with the Christmas season Alberta's Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has unveiled the 12 Points for Christmas aimed at consumers and merchants. | (12/15/2006) A renewal of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between Industry Canada and the Commerce, Industry and Technology Bureau (CITB) of the Government of Hong Kong hopes to foster enhanced cooperation in the area of information and communications technologies (ICT). | (12/15/2006) Unity is hard to do. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can help turn the masses of silo systems in government into modular components that can be snapped together to share common system services. But the devil is in making a business case today for SOA investments that will deliver indirect benefits tomorrow. |
  | |  | | 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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