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(5/1/2008) Partly because of a lack of markets for some electronic materials, many discarded electronic devices in the U.S. wind up being dismantled overseas using crude and unsafe methods, e-waste experts told a congressional committee on Wednesday. | (4/29/2008) Bell Canada has admitted defying regulations when it recently started throttling peer-to-peer traffic without permission, says an association representing Internet service providers trying to stop the telco's practice. | (4/18/2008) I recently attended a meeting of four graduate students and four executives from a provincial Crown corporation. The topic was e-government and how Web 2.0 can improve customer and employee engagement and thus improve performance. | (4/15/2008) Sixty per cent of knowledge workers in the U.S., U.K., and Australia will have effectively stopped deleting documents, e-mails, audio, and video files from their hard drives by 2010, and we will soon see this taken to another level with widespread proactive recording in the workplace, according to Australian research company S2 Intelligence. | (4/14/2008) The U.K. government has admitted much more work has to be done on patient security and confidentiality concerns, associated with allowing pharmacists access to patient Summary Care Records (SCRs). | (4/3/2008) The Canadian Medical Association has launched a new health portal dubbed mydoctor.ca, which has online tools for tracking chronic diseases, as well as a physician-driven Canadian electronic patient health record platform. | (3/20/2008) Canadian politicians need a crash-course in YouTubing, say several media observers. Over half the population that looks for information about political candidates finds it primarily on the Web, according to a study by the Pew Research Centre. "People turn to the Web to find information that will impact the way they vote," says Greg Elmer, director of the Infoscape Research Lab at Ryerson University in Toronto. | (3/18/2008) Many companies spend a small fortune and deploy a small army to secure themselves from the many security threats lurking these days. But all those efforts can come to naught when making any of these common mistakes. | (3/11/2008) More than 600 predictions were released by analysts this week in ICT industry research reports that identify a long list of trends, forecasts and estimates ranging from the top technologies for the year 2010 to growing tensions in the telecommunications industry as a result of convergence. | (3/7/2008) Social networking channels such as MySpace and Facebook have spawned virtual communities of users sharing personal information and bound by their common interests. It's impossible to ignore the information-sharing potential of these tools and new government policies will have to take them into account - but how? | (3/3/2008) A complaint has been lodged with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on behalf of Internode and nine other ISPs against Telstra's refusal to wholesale parts of its newly established ADSL services. |
  | |  | | 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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