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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. | (4/25/2008) Real value of governance: How government's commitment to provide shared services are raising governance challenges. | (2/22/2008) In his address to local government leaders this week, Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers urged industry to team up with cities in order to battle climate change. Saying his views had changed from just five or six years ago, the head of the world's largest network builder cozied up to officials from municipalities around the world at the Connected Urban Development Global Conference in San Francisco. | (2/12/2008) IT vendors can play a major role in reducing the world's energy consumption, but information about the benefits of technology has been lacking in an ongoing environmental debate in Washington, D.C., according to three tech CEOs. | (1/23/2008) When visiting Niagara Falls, chances are you're too enthralled by the beauty and power of the cataract to think of anything else. Until you cross the U.S./Canada border - then you have to think about the interrogation from customs agents and the video cameras locked in on your vehicle. | (12/4/2007) Increasing service delivery while driving down per unit cost is the goal that the Ontario government wants to attain through a common infrastructure and information technology strategy. Ontario CIO Ron McKerlie outlined this vision and the role that private partners play at an ITAC-hosted forum in Toronto this week. | (12/3/2007) The Local Government Performance Index, an analysis by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a western Canadian think-tank, has found that our cities are suffering from more than just a lack of attention. Poor public disclosure, archaic accounting and vast performance differences from city to city paint an unflattering picture. | (12/3/2007) The Local Government Performance Index, an analysis by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a western Canadian think-tank, has found that our cities are suffering from more than just a lack of attention. Poor public disclosure, archaic accounting and vast performance differences from city to city paint an unflattering picture. |
  | |  | | 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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