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(8/10/2007) Advanced biometrics and nationwide databases containing information on DNA will be used to beef up Australian law enforcement agencies as part of an effort to tighten department collaboration investigations by July 2008. | (6/21/2007) Two recent surveys have revealed that while environmental issues have been taking centre stage in the public eye lately, most Canadian business leaders have yet to clearly define a green energy strategy. One Canadian IT industry analyst says executive inaction is possibly due to a perceived lack of compelling reasons to initiate any green strategy. | (6/20/2007) Two recent surveys have revealed that while environmental issues have been taking centre stage in the public eye lately, most Canadian business leaders have yet to clearly define a green energy strategy. One Canadian IT industry analyst says executive inaction is possibly due to a perceived lack of compelling reasons to initiate any green strategy. | (6/6/2007) A typical Canadian cannot easily find a desired government service at any level, and gets lost trying. Service Canada, the Public Sector Service Delivery Council and the Government of New Brunswick are all involved in an emerging project - a global, common-language inventory of services - that might finally give directions to the Lost Citizen. | (6/5/2007) A typical Canadian cannot easily find a desired government service at any level, and gets lost trying. Service Canada, the Public Sector Service Delivery Council and the Government of New Brunswick are all involved in an emerging project - a global, common-language inventory of services - that might finally give directions to the Lost Citizen. | (5/29/2007) Japan is testing a Safety Mobile Phone technology that could help pedestrians avoid being hit by vehicles. In trials backed by the Japanese government, OKI Electric Industry Co. Ltd. says its devices use Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) technology to rapidly exchange location information about vehicles equipped with the same technology. | (5/2/2007) A new wiki designed to track and allow users to comment on pending federal legislation has been launched. The site allows lawmakers, lobbyists, trade association officials and others with expertise on specific subjects to update wiki entries on pending federal legislation. The public can also add comments on legislation. | (4/16/2007) Live video webcasts are providing biologists and researchers a bird's eye view of colonial nesting birds as part of a wildlife monitoring project at High Island Natural Area on Lac La Biche in Alberta. | (4/13/2007) U.K. National Health Service patients will be able to choose and book outpatient hospital appointments directly using their own PCs or those in local libraries, under a pilot plan launched Wednesday. | (4/11/2007) Mass registration projects have an enormous appeal to politicians. In a perceived crisis, anything from gun crime to terrorism, it is quick and easy to pass legislation and create new databases, thus demonstrating decisiveness and concern. The consequences, as with Canada's deeply flawed firearms registry, are often at odds with the intent. Mass identity registration projects are even worse. | (4/2/2007) Treasury Board Secretariat has launched a full investigation with Canada Revenue Agency into the software bug that brought down the national e-tax filing system for 10 days earlier this month. Gordon O'Grady, deputy assistant commissioner with the IT branch at CRA, talked this week with InterGovWorld senior writer Lisa Williams about the main culprit of the glitch, why it took so long to fix the faulty patch, and the processes behind its post mortem with Treasury Board. |
  | |  | | 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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