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(5/11/2006) The valuable service the Ottawa Food Bank provides is fixing to get more accessible, thanks to a new web-enabled communications tool. | (5/4/2006) In January, San Diego awarded a seven-year outsourcing contract worth approximately US$650 million to Northrop Grumman Information Technology to run the county's IT operations. | (5/3/2006) Canadian government agencies have pegged content management as a top IT priority this year. Fair enough, bearing in mind that research makes clear that one size definitely doesn't fit all. | (5/3/2006) In 1999, San Diego County embarked upon what was then the largest municipal IT outsourcing initiative in the world: a seven-year deal worth $644 million with a group of companies known as the Pennant Alliance (which included Computer Sciences Corp as the prime contractor), meant to refurbish County government operations for 21st century challenges. | (5/3/2006) With more than 30 years experience in the IT industry, Pete Shea was a natural choice as CIO for Newfoundland and Labrador when he assumed the role in the fall of 2004. He credits his work as regional director for xwave in Ireland and Newfoundland as helping prepare him for the role he has today. | (5/1/2006) When a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan detonates landmines, it's a tug between life and death. A tiny mistake could mean instant death. | (4/28/2006) China claimed that it has lost US$1 billion in disputes over intellectual property (IP) rights since it joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. | (4/28/2006) A wide-ranging telecommunications reform bill approved by a US House committee late Wednesday will drive down cable TV prices and increase demand for broadband services, said supporters of the legislation. | (4/27/2006) The US government is studying the viability of a shared technology and services infrastructure to help agencies issue new Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards to all employees and contractors beginning in October. | (4/25/2006) Users from the health care community said the resignation of the Bush Administration's point man for health IT is unlikely to seriously hurt the national move to adopt electronic health records. |
  | |  | | 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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