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(3/30/2006) Over the past three years, homeland security has been a major priority for North America and around the world. On a daily basis, people have been tuning in to hear the most recent information on the war on terror and determine the latest national threat level. | (3/30/2006) When the B.C. government auctioned off data storage tapes that contained details of the medical status of thousands of people b including whether they are HIV-positive, mentally ill or considered fit for work b they really stepped in it. But, sadly, it could have happened anywhere. | (3/28/2006) IF you want a good idea of what NSW Health's electronic health record system will look like, cast a glance over the Tasman.
Two New Zealand companies, Orion Systems and HealthLink, are supplying key software and communications technology, while former New Zealand Health Ministry IT chief Mike Rillstone has been brought in by NSW Health to manage the project.
| (3/24/2006) Prince Edward Island may be the smallest province in Canada, but its new media industry is growing by leaps and bounds, thanks in part to the Wireless Technology Development Fund. | (3/23/2006) The first day that Sun Microsystems Inc. allowed users to buy access over the Internet to its long-delayed public utility grid, a denial of service attack forced the company to take down a service hosted on the grid | (3/21/2006) What would the IT industry be like without the entrenched institution of political lobbying? | (3/15/2006) A new case management system being implemented by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to help fight terrorism could cost as much as US$500 million. | (3/13/2006) This ripple in the pond of municipal infrastructure advancements quickly became a tsunami. | (3/8/2006) Industry analysts have praised Toronto's plans for a city-wide municipal Wi-Fi network. | (3/8/2006) The advent of electronic government a decade ago brought with it unfettered rhetoric and anticipation. Born in an era of dot-com valuations and an infatuation with most anything beginning with the prefix "e," it generated much hope b and much has been delivered. |
  | |  | | 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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