(5/29/2008) A trade complaint has been filed against the European Union by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), saying the E.U. has violated a World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement by taxing the import of some tech products. | (5/27/2008) Five suppliers have been chosen to deliver the IT systems for the National Identity Scheme (NIS) project. The Home Office announced that CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM and Thales have all been invited to sign framework contracts and form a Strategic Supplier Group for the scheme. | (5/22/2008) New technology ideas will make Britain "the innovation nation" of the future, according to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. "I want to break down every barrier to innovation, whether it is our policy or our attitudes to regulation," he said. | (5/15/2008) Technology is a factor in enabling the Ontario government to meet their green targets, but behaviour and mindset also plays a role, according to associate deputy minister Hugh MacLeod. "This is a transformational change for which new conversations and new partners are required," said MacLeod yesterday at a Green Technologies town hall meeting hosted by the Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer. | (5/13/2008) Following a spate of high profile data breaches, the U.S. Ministry of Defence is set to install encryption software on 20,000 of its laptops. It will install BeCrypt's Disk Baseline software across Royal Airforce, Army and Navy laptops, and users will need to be authenticated before they can access encrypted data. | (5/6/2008) ICT suppliers will soon have to meet sustainability standards if they want to sell products or services to the government and the wider public sector. If businesses don't make the grade, they may not win government business. | (4/28/2008) As a result of the controversy that has erupted over Bell traffic shaping tactics, the NDP has called on the government to amend the Telecommunications Act and stop anti-competitive practices by the giant telecoms. | (4/10/2008) Washington politicians are frequently denounced for moving too slowly to respond to emerging problems, and while the adage has proven true regarding the federal sector's response to cyber security thus far, the U.S. government is making slow progress in addressing the issue, experts maintain. | (4/7/2008) A Welsh government Web site has been hacked to serve up malicious JavaScript, a sign that the spate of attacks first spotted last month are continuing, analysts from security vendor Sophos warned last week. | (4/1/2008) According to IDC's Forecast for Management (FFM) Survey, half of responding CIOs have SOA in their 2008 budgets. "This is interesting as many IT industry participants first saw SOA as another standards and application development paradigm wave that would just fade away," said Melissa Martin, an analyst with IDC Australia. | (3/27/2008) Next-generation Canadian voting technology is making its way onto the American political stage. The secure voting technology was developed by the University of Ottawa last year and tested in graduate student elections. |
  | |  | | 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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