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(6/5/2008) The Royal Berkshire NHS Trust is considering leaving the UK$12.4 billion National Programme for IT to choose its own patient record systems. Chairman Colin MacLean said the trust was examining the option of leaving the program, in the wake of the "worrying" development that southern region contractor Fujitsu was leaving the project.
| (5/30/2008) A plan to auction spectrum will soon be voted on by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, with the winner required to offer free wireless Internet services. The winner of the 25Mhz piece of spectrum in the 2155MHz band would be required to use a specified amount of the spectrum to deliver free wireless Internet access. | (5/29/2008) Any employee can get in trouble for personal blogging on company time, but U.S. government workers, as one NASA employee has discovered, can get into a special kind of legal trouble if they also write about politics. | (5/29/2008) A trade complaint has been filed against the European Union by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), saying the E.U. has violated a World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement by taxing the import of some tech products. | (5/28/2008) IBM Canada has announced the creation of a Centre of Excellence in Quebec City, the aim of which is to facilitate the international sharing of medical documents between clinics, physicians and hospitals. The exclusive global provider of the solution is Artefact Informatique, a division of LGS Group Inc. (an IBM company). | (5/27/2008) Five suppliers have been chosen to deliver the IT systems for the National Identity Scheme (NIS) project. The Home Office announced that CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM and Thales have all been invited to sign framework contracts and form a Strategic Supplier Group for the scheme. | (5/22/2008) New technology ideas will make Britain "the innovation nation" of the future, according to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. "I want to break down every barrier to innovation, whether it is our policy or our attitudes to regulation," he said. | (5/21/2008) Because of a risk of eavesdropping the government of the Netherlands has banned electronic voting machines from future elections, and will return to paper voting. "Research indicates that a secure voting machine that is immune to the risks of eavesdropping can't be guaranteed," the Ministry of Internal Affairs said last week.
| (5/20/2008) The U.K. government has missed another opportunity to commit to an internet crime response unit, despite vowing to better police communications data in the interests of national security. | (5/16/2008) If they innovate and achieve efficiency on tightened budgets, CIOs will gain the strategic influence they desire, says Bryan MacDonald, director of the CIO practice at recruitment specialists Harvey Nash. |
  | |  | | 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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