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(3/11/2007) 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. | (3/10/2007) 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. | (3/9/2007) 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. | (3/8/2007) 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. | (3/1/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (2/14/2007) Michael Hurst, the Industry Canada employee at the centre of an e-mail controversy in Yellowknife, may get to keep his government job for the price of 75 hours' community service. | (2/12/2007) This past Wednesday the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) was attacked and hacked and it could have been somebody very bad sending a menacing message, says a Canadian security expert. | (2/8/2007) Refreshing. I trust this process is not purely dollar driven as it seems are most processes in global affairs appearing in the news. Considering the alarming and unfolding of global events as they are being exposed primarily through the Internet an emergence of compassion among our leading institutions is in desperate need. | (2/5/2007) The news may be a little dated and You've likely moved on to other stories. But sometimes a bit of distance brings new clarity to complex issues. So now that a few weeks have passed since Time Magazine declared You "Person of the Year," let's ask: Where do You go from here? | (1/31/2007) Canadian government needs an overhaul of its procurement and partnering frameworks to more effectively support intergovernmental arrangements and deliver more public value, according to a new research report. |
  | |  | | 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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