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(6/9/2008) What do CEOs want from their CIOs, and how can CIOs build on the power gains they've built up, even as everything around them is changing? CIO magazine tackled just that subject during a panel session at the CIO Leadership Conference and found five main keys to being a top-notch CIO today-and tomorrow. | (6/6/2008) A bill that will allow local authorities to monitor all types of wired traffic, including e-mails, fax messages and telephone calls is about to be voted on by the Swedish government. This week, the Swedish Parliamentary Committee on Defence approved the bill, which was published last year. | (6/6/2008) Should people be able to hide abortions, AIDS, mental illness and other such touchy matters in their medical histories? The question is moot in a paper-based health care system: the hodge-podge of information out there about an individual is difficult to track and find, since complete medical records don't exist. But this won't be true much longer. | (6/5/2008) The Royal Berkshire NHS Trust is considering leaving the UK$12.4 billion National Programme for IT to choose its own patient record systems. Chairman Colin MacLean said the trust was examining the option of leaving the program, in the wake of the "worrying" development that southern region contractor Fujitsu was leaving the project.
| (6/5/2008) Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA) has hit back at criticism from Ontario's Information Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian on the progress made so far in the development of an Ontario-wide EHR. | (5/30/2008) A plan to auction spectrum will soon be voted on by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, with the winner required to offer free wireless Internet services. The winner of the 25Mhz piece of spectrum in the 2155MHz band would be required to use a specified amount of the spectrum to deliver free wireless Internet access. | (5/28/2008) IBM Canada has announced the creation of a Centre of Excellence in Quebec City, the aim of which is to facilitate the international sharing of medical documents between clinics, physicians and hospitals. The exclusive global provider of the solution is Artefact Informatique, a division of LGS Group Inc. (an IBM company). | (5/27/2008) The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley regulations served as a wake-up call for CIOs to formalize document retention policies to meet compliance requirements. But regulatory demands-and the number of documents produced daily-continue to grow. | (5/27/2008) Five suppliers have been chosen to deliver the IT systems for the National Identity Scheme (NIS) project. The Home Office announced that CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM and Thales have all been invited to sign framework contracts and form a Strategic Supplier Group for the scheme. | (5/26/2008) In the business world, the level of control over wireless devices seems to vary widely, swinging back and forth between two extremes. At the one end of the pendulum is a policy in which very few (if any) workers are authorized to use wireless devices, and the approval process is stringent and centrally controlled. |
  | |  | | 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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