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(11/15/2007) Public Works and Government Services Canada has entered into a $91.8 million managed IT services contract with CGI Group Inc., under which the Montreal-based IT outsourcer will provide engineering and technical management services to PWGSCb s Information Technology Services Branch over a three-year period. | (10/11/2007) At the top of Gartner Inc.'s 10 strategic technologies for next year is "Green IT". The research firm says that if businesses don't improve data centre energy efficiency, the government may force them to do so. | (9/27/2007) Despite reports to the contrary, metro-scale Wi-Fi is not dead. While municipal Wi-Fi has entered a new and unpleasant phase, it will come back stronger than ever. In fact, its current difficulties are quite predictable; most significant new technologies stumble at first. | (9/7/2007) China has denied allegations that its military hacked a Pentagon network in June, the second time in as many weeks that the country has responded to charges of sponsoring computer attacks. | (8/29/2007) The U.K. government's Courts Service has reaffirmed that the long-delayed Libra case management system will be fully rolled out by the end of next year - although it has so far reached fewer than one in eight courts. The Libra project began in 1998 and has seen repeated delays and cost hikes. | (8/21/2007) Vendors and government agencies are pushing the use of Internet Protocol Version 6 as the number of addresses available in IPv4 diminishes, and researchers find that network administrators are unprepared for the new protocol. Here's more on what you need to know about IPv6. | (7/23/2007) The month-long assault in April against Estonia's government Web sites, banks, media outlets and ISPs was neither unusual nor unexpected, and the origin of the attacks may never be known. The attacks also punched big holes in the idea that the Internet is so universal and has so much inherent redundancy that it can heal itself, patching around damaged nodes and getting the data safely to its destination, despite any and all obstacles. | (4/26/2007) A new video communications network aims to combine the City of Calgary's 73 courtrooms into one virtual room, designed to handle the presentation of digital evidence and remote video-conferencing. The Alberta provincial government has signed a $16.3 million deal with telecommunications company Telus Corp. that will expand the use of video links already deployed in 62 other courts and remand locations within the province. | (4/20/2007) Talk about new desktop operating systems may be at an all-time high, but the government of Australian state Queensland has no intention to progress from the six-year-old Windows XP for more than 100,000 computers to be purchased over the next three years. | (4/6/2007) A new report by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Justice concludes that an ambitious, multi-billion dollar federal wireless network faces a 'high risk' of failing to be achieved. After nearly six years of work, and spending by the DOJ alone of US$195 million, there is little to show, according to Inspector General Glenn Fine. | (3/9/2007) It's still lights out for online tax filing. Canada Revenue Agency remained in the dark yesterday about when its servers would come back on. CRA hasn't yet figured out what the problem is, but the agency figures it at least knows what the problem is not. |
  | |  | | 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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