(4/13/2007) Any technology can be said to improve a government's operations and inefficiencies, but it doesn't matter how sophisticated the programming or equipment is if left underutilized. Just because you build it, doesn't mean anyone will actually use it. Without appropriate consideration to adoption, a project can be destined to fail. | (4/12/2007) Any technology can be said to improve a government's operations and inefficiencies, but it doesn't matter how sophisticated the programming or equipment is if left underutilized. Just because you build it, doesn't mean anyone will actually use it. Without appropriate consideration to adoption, a project can be destined to fail. | (4/12/2007) Any technology can be said to improve a government's operations and inefficiencies, but it doesn't matter how sophisticated the programming or equipment is if left underutilized. Just because you build it, doesn't mean anyone will actually use it. Without appropriate consideration to adoption, a project can be destined to fail. | (4/11/2007) The recent controversy over stacks of documents containing personal information on Rogers Communications' customers being discovered in a downtown parking lot has once again brought the issue of client confidentiality into sharp focus. | (4/9/2007) Information technologies that make government services more seamless have proved a catalyst for a huge and ongoing debate that covers the entire spectrum of government activity, from operations to policy to governance. Much of it revolves around what we call "the machinery problem." | (4/5/2007) The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has ended a proceeding that would have allowed mobile phone calls on airplanes, for now ending the possibility of phone conversations during flights. | (4/5/2007) A recent ruling by Canada's Privacy Commissioner has brought into sharp focus gaps in our privacy legislation. Jennifer Stoddart, recently ruled that an international organization acted legally when it divulged personal data of Canadians to the U.S. government. | (4/4/2007) Whether it's government officials or company employees, e-mail users who send messages outside their official government or corporate networks could be putting their organizations at risk for legal action, regulatory compliance problems, intellectual property thefts and more. | (4/2/2007) Your central point for all past, present and future Lac Carling information. | (3/26/2007) A committee of MPs has warned there is "no evidence" that the U.K. government's proposed new child maintenance system and the IT to support it will avoid a repeat of the fiasco surrounding the doomed Child Support Agency (CSA). |
  | |  | | 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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