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(9/12/2006) While Jim Firestone doesn't think technology watchers will see the advent of the paperless office in the near future, the president of Xerox North America does envision a more holistic approach to document management. | (9/8/2006) Fighting crime in Alberta just got a little easier with a $100 million investment from the provincial government in a new IT strategy for police services | (8/1/2006) | (7/5/2006) Parents and guardians of children in kindergarten through grade three scan now see online how big classes at their child's school are, with the launch of The Ontario Ministry of Education's (OME) Class-Size Tracker. | (6/26/2006) Terror on the Internet hardly sounds like a book title to reassure public sector IT security organizations. But, ironically, it does.
| (5/3/2006) Recently a colleague confessed to me that he sometimes experiences "productivity windows". Productivity windows, he explained, are those brief periods of time that occur between interruptions, when you can actually focus, think and get real work done. Sound familiar? | (2/23/2006) Even though the Australian government may have an effective IT security framework, a recent report shows that certain government agencies are not living up to it, highlighting a great concern.
| (2/16/2006) MIAMI - Burgeoning Canadian municipalities might want to pay attention to what the City of Calgary just learned: if you want to get out of a hole, stop digging.
Calgary's change management team is still waist deep "in the vortex of despair," but is looking to process modeling to consolidate the disparate networks that supply essential city services.
| (2/14/2006) With the growth of the grass-roots organizations beginning to share patient data regionally, the George Bush administration's point man for health IT wants to establish standards and guidelines for how these groups are governed and financed. | (2/8/2006) The State Services Commission in New Zealand has chosen IBM as its preferred supplier of network management and service delivery for the Government Shared Network (GSN), but nobody will say how much the contract is worth. | (2/1/2006) In his annual State of the Union address Tuesday night, U.S. President George W. Bush proposed a multibillion dollar initiative to encourage research and development in the U.S. and strengthen education in math and the sciences. He also defended the government's controversial wire-tapping efforts.
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  | |  | | 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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