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(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. | (4/9/2007) 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." | (4/2/2007) Your central point for all past, present and future Lac Carling information. | (3/28/2007) Australian author, explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery has urged the Canadian government to step up its efforts and act more decisively on climate change, as part of a mass global mobilization program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | (3/27/2007) Australian author, explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery has urged the Canadian government to step up its efforts and act more decisively on climate change, as part of a mass global mobilization program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | (3/26/2007) Australian author, explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery has urged the Canadian government to step up its efforts and act more decisively on climate change, as part of a mass global mobilization program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | (3/25/2007) Australian author, explorer and conservationist Tim Flannery has urged the Canadian government to step up its efforts and act more decisively on climate change, as part of a mass global mobilization program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. | (3/12/2007) Public service and information are hard to fathom from the Blue Pages. Blue Pages directories read like hieroglyphics, with none of the great storytelling. In the age of citizen empowerment, Blue Pages are too complex and too bureaucratic to empower anyone. Municipalities know this, so instead they're moving hundreds of government departments out of the telephone book and onto a single number. |
  |  |  | | 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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