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(10/6/2005) In the August/September issue of CIO Government Review, Toronto writer Tammy McCausland introduced the notion of Federated Information Management, or FIM, meant to support digital "identity" in federal government services. This articles looks at FIM at work at Environment Canada. | (9/22/2005) A gamut of projects under the U.K. e-Science Program, many of which involve employing large-scale IT systems to analyze data over the Internet for scientists in a range of fields, are being detailed this week at the fourth annual e-Science All Hands Meeting 2005 in Nottingham, England. | (9/6/2005) While the South African government has openly renewed its focus on the importance of ICT, its benefits and service delivery to its citizens, it is equally important for the private sector to form meaningful partnerships with government. | (8/19/2005) Ask 10 questions to ensure that your e-waste is being recycled and not exported. | (8/19/2005) Every Monday when the household recycling truck comes, it's little bother for me to haul out my blue bin, where throughout the week I pitch unwanted paper, plastic, and glass. So why, then, is it so difficult for me to get rid of my old PC, my crappy three-year-old cell phone, and that Methuselah of a TV that I banished to the garage ten years ago? | (8/19/2005) Some Canadian IT vendors believe responsible recycling should not be a wasted effort. Taking a strong stance against the exporting of e-waste to Asia is Mississauga, Ont.-based HP Canada Ltd., which has partnered with Noranda Recycling to process the IT hardware maker's own end-of-life computing products. In addition, HP's Planet Partners program encourages people to bring obsolete computer products to HP, regardless of the brand, for a fee that covers the cost of recycling. | (8/19/2005) Something's cooking in a forgotten corner of the province of Zheijiang, China - and it's the perfect recipe for a health and environmental disaster. Ingredients of this toxic swill include assorted electronic circuit boards simmered in pure nitric and hydrochloric acids. For a meagre $1.50 a day, labourers in the province's Taizhou region heat computer circuit boards in order to extract and recover valuable metals within the products for reuse. The process is done outdoors, by hand, and releases lethal toxic fumes. | (8/19/2005) The Manufacturer's Coalition for Responsible Recycling (Coalition) is a group of electronics companies that have come together out of a belief that the Advanced Recovery Fee (ARF) is the best approach to financing management of end-of-life electronics at the state and national levels. | (8/19/2005) The sheer volume of these thrown-away high-tech devices has become a serious threat to the environment. Worse still is the fact that we're only just starting to take the first small steps to face an issue that has been, out of self-interest, ignored by the computer industry and politicians for decades. | (8/19/2005) Refurbishing old computers for re-use is a common alternative in e-waste management, but vendors are wary that it's not really solving the end-of-life issue, but merely delaying it. Industry Canada's Computers for Schools (CFS) program has been a 13-year beneficiary for obsolete computers that would have otherwise been dumped in landfills across the country or exported to "recyclers" in China. |
  | |  | | 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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