(7/16/2007) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is pushing for increased data sharing powers in three of the bills announced in his draft legislative program - with one measure that would hand HM Revenue and Customs data to private firms. | (7/16/2007) The FBI is using data mining programs to track everyone from potential terrorists to individuals who file fraudulent automobile insurance claims, according to a U.S. Department of Justice report filed with Congress. | (7/15/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (7/13/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (7/13/2007) Nortel president and CEO Mike Zafirovski is set to receive a nomination to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee from President George W. Bush. The committee serves in an advisory capacity to the U.S. president and provides recommendations and analysis on a variety of technical and policy issues on areas including telecommunications, infrastructure protection and national security. | (7/12/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (7/11/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (7/11/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (7/11/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (7/11/2007) A new project is aiming to allow U.S. government agencies to share data securely. The objective of the Secure Information Sharing Infrastructure (SISA) project is to create a system that allows data to be shared between the agencies, but in a way that ensures only the people who are authorized to access data are able to do so. Cisco Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp. and EMC Corp. will provide commercial, off-the-shelf products, with smaller vendors contributing specific technologies. |
  | |  | | 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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