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(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. | (3/30/2007) Former U.S. President Bill Clinton praised the power of IT saying it should be harnessed to improve the lives of disadvantaged people in the U.S. and abroad. Clinton advocated an electronic medical records (EMR) law and said blogs could aid the U.S. political process in his keynote address at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Orlando, Fla.
| (3/12/2007) The common good is back in fashion. Across North America, from San Francisco to Fredericton, more than 200 crusading cities are building municipal Wi-Fi networks. Boosting business, providing Web access for poorer citizens, creating communal communications infrastructures: different cities have different missions driving their Wi-Fi projects. | (3/5/2007) Protection against possible terrorist attacks is the motivator behind Germany's new anti-terror data law. The law allows German security officials to create the largest and most comprehensive pool of personal data ever to be amassed in the country. | (2/27/2007) Saskatchewan is set to offer free access to the province's wireless Internet network starting this spring. As part of the Saskatchewan Connected initiative, basic Internet service will be offered in the province's four largest centres: Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Regina and Moose Jaw. | (2/22/2007) The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now looking to alternative technologies for its border security system after RFID tags failed to work as expected in a 15-month test. | (2/5/2007) A highly critical review of Ontario's e-health agency, Smart Systems for Health, will serve as its guide to becoming a best practices IT organization within a few years, says its chairman and acting CEO. | (1/31/2007) Exploding demand for Internet bandwidth has forced a showdown between network providers and the content providers who argue that Net neutrality should be preserved and all Internet traffic should be treated equally. | (1/22/2007) Cisco is very well known among network managers and has delivered solid products over the years. Jeff Duke says that is part of the reason he ultimately wound up with Cisco shelfware in his network in Indianapolis. | (12/15/2006) At a recent Crossing Boundaries forum on citizen-centred federalism, former Ontario CIO Scott Campbell made the case for engaging politicians in the debate over government transformation. | (12/12/2006) It's a safe bet no organization anywhere can be 100 per cent secure. A constantly changing cyberscape helps guarantee this. It's also why security and IT managers can never run and hide from risk management and threat assessment. |
  | |  | | 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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