(11/14/2006) Electronic votes are set to be cast in the state of Victoria Monday, marking a first for Australia in any state election. | (11/13/2006) A municipal 311 program and a mobile learning project for post-secondary students both claimed silver awards of excellence at the 2006 Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA). | (11/3/2006) Eight small Alberta municipalities b including Cold Lake, Okotoks and Taber b are making big leaps in their ability to serve constituents, improve operational efficiencies and reduce the costs of delivering municipal government services. | (10/31/2006) When a hospital assigns roles to its disparate health care staff, it not only specifies what kind of information that health care worker is permitted to obtain, it also creates communities of common interest. And that's "pretty cool." | (10/2/2006) The number of BlackBerry account holders has reached 6.2 million and Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) recently reported revenue up 34 percent, but market researcher IDC said trouble may lie ahead for the company. | (9/28/2006) Applications that enable unified communications -- not price or cost savings -- should drive the trend towards convergent communications and mobility, according to an official of Nortel Networks. | (6/27/2006) If you want to make sure youb re eating right, that question is soon to be answered online and via phone by Ontario dietitians. | (6/16/2006) The City of Toronto is hoping to offer a new online resource that will allow full public disclosure into campaign contributions received by candidates in the upcoming November election. | (5/30/2006) More than 11,000 adverse drug events were reported to Health Canada in 2005, but the actual unreported numbers are much higher, according to IBM Canada research. Many of these incidents could be prevented if doctors had the right information at their fingertips.
| (5/30/2006) More than 11,000 adverse drug events were reported to Health Canada in 2005, but the actual unreported numbers are much higher, according to IBM Canada research. Many of these incidents could be prevented if doctors had the right information at their fingertips.
| (4/10/2006) Californias new voter registration database, whose creation the federal government once called a model for other states, may prevent thousands of eligible voters from casting ballots in a June 6 statewide election, officials fear. |
  | |  | | 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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