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(12/4/2006) The capital of Taiwan is pushing the technology envelope once again, this time turning on VoIP Internet phone service in government offices and schools across the city. | (12/1/2006) Ohio's Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners is considering scrapping a US$17 million investment in touch-screen electronic-voting hardware and switching to precinct count optical scan devices. | (11/13/2006) The jury is still out on the performance of e-voting systems throughout the country in this week's midterm elections, according to officials and technical experts interviewed during and after the vote. | (11/6/2006) E-voting machines remain vulnerable to attacks from people trying to steal elections and to glitches that incorrectly count votes, critics say as the U.S. prepares for Tuesday elections. | (11/3/2006) The HIPS tool the PAL team used provides an open interface so a custom rule to precisely shield the SipXtapi vulnerability could be built. | (10/26/2006) Seven out of ten voters in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) would prefer to vote online as opposed to at the polling stations, according to a recent survey conducted by Delvinia Interactive. | (10/23/2006) Without privacy many rights also disappear. This was one of the key messages at Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart's keynote address at the IAPP (International Association of Privacy Professionals) 2006 conference in Toronto. | (10/6/2006) The Ontario Ministry of Environment (OME) hopes to alleviate the high demand of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests with the implementation of tracking and case management applications. | (9/20/2006) User satisfaction with U.S. government Web sites dipped slightly from last quarter, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). | (8/10/2006) Despite the defeat of a 'Net neutrality amendment in the U.S. Congress in early June, the heated debate about whether network operators should be able to charge some Web sites and content providers more than others isn't going away. | (7/4/2006) Canada's privacy chief has expressed concern over the use of employee surveillance technologies, and urged organizations to "look beyond intrusive solutions" in dealing with information and corporate security issues. |
  | |  | | 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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