(8/7/2007) U.K. Members of Parliament have called on the government to speed up its efforts to promote data sharing between government departments and local authorities to boost the uptake of council tax benefits. The MPs acknowledged concerns over privacy, but noted witnesses' evidence that the public may not share the same fears about data protection. | (8/6/2007) California's secretary of state has mandated tough new security standards for the state's e-voting systems and curtailed their use, following an independent review of the technology. The order comes just days after several teams of researchers from the University of California evaluated the security, accessibility and usability of voting machines. | (8/6/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (8/3/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (8/3/2007) The federal government supports SOA development across the public sector and has posted two documents outlining SOA strategy and a series primer. Gary Doucet, executive director of architecture for the CIO branch of Treasury Board Secretariat, says the concepts of SOA and service orientation overlap. | (8/3/2007) Tucked into an affidavit filed by an FBI agent last month was the first hard evidence that federal agents are equipped with more than automatic pistols and handcuffs: The agency was asking a federal judge to let it infect a PC with spyware so they could finger its owner. | (8/3/2007) Tucked into an affidavit filed by an FBI agent last month was the first hard evidence that federal agents are equipped with more than automatic pistols and handcuffs: The agency was asking a federal judge to let it infect a PC with spyware so they could finger its owner. | (8/2/2007) Taking an enterprise view can help to guide an organization to improved planning, decision-making, communications and business direction. It's also time-consuming and requires ongoing investment to support. It's not a one-time quick fix, either. The promise of service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the ability to better automate business processes and implement changes quickly. | (8/2/2007) The U.K. Government's Chief Information Officer Council has posted a video on YouTube, covering progress across the three main themes of its transformational government strategy: customer-centric services; shared services; and professionalism. The video offers real-life examples of transformational government in action, through interviews with programme owners, stakeholders and users of services. | (8/1/2007) Decades of siloed system design have left most government organizations with antique, rickety systems that don't play well with others. By putting new SOA wrappers on old proprietary applications, modular interfaces can be built, shared, linked, reused and recombined as needed. The utopia is infinite interoperability. |
  | |  | | 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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