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(12/12/2007) The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency can provide a good example for corporate CIOs on how to handle electronic records by not doing what the CIA had done. Recent reports that the CIA destroyed videotapes of interrogations of two terrorist suspects may be a case in point and a timely reminder for CIOs tasked with electronic evidence preservation rules since last December. | (12/11/2007) Actively engaging the constituency is key to the success of public sector organizations. That's the belief of many government executives surveyed recently by the Economist Intelligence Unit. In reality, however, despite that belief only a quarter of those surveyed say that they are deeply engaged with their constituents. | (12/10/2007) Computer systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (http://www.ornl.gov/), an American science and technology lab under the U.S. Department of Energy, has reportedly suffered a cyber attack last week and there were indications other institutions may have also been targets. | (12/10/2007) The U.K. Office of Government Commerce has warned that government departments are increasingly dependent on outside consultants to fill procurement skills gaps, with the tendency being particularly pronounced in IT. | (12/3/2007) Espionage is setting up shop on the Internet as governments around the world increasingly use the Web for intelligence gathering, according to McAfee Inc.'s Virtual Criminology Report. Security analysts believe cyber espionage will be one of the biggest threats to governments and national security in 2008 and will spur what analysts are calling a "cyber cold war." | (11/29/2007) According to a recent focus-group report, young IT workers in the U.S. government believe that by the time technology is rolled out it's obsolete, and as a result they're concerned they aren't getting the experience they need because some functions are outsourced. | (11/28/2007) Alberta's Ministry of Employment, Immigration and Industry has launched a new Web site designed to provide a single resource for immigrants. Federally funded through Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the new portal offers all the information newcomers need to know to live and work in Alberta. | (11/23/2007) The U.K government has come to the defence of the security measures for their UK $5.6 billion ID cards scheme as the result of the data loss crisis at the U.K government's HM Revenue and Customs. | (11/23/2007) Thierry Zoller, a German based security engineer, is questioning if the software we're using to protect ourselves from online attacks is becoming a liability. For the past two years, Zoller, a security engineer for n.runs AG, has taken a close look at the way antivirus software inspects e-mail traffic. | (11/21/2007) According to a recent study, consumer and corporate use of the Internet could overload the current capacity and lead to brown-outs in two years unless backbone providers invest billions of dollars in new infrastructure. |
  | |  | | 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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