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(2/28/2008) Privacy advocates on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border are sounding loud alarms about RFID-enabled enhanced drivers' licences (EDLs). In January, British Columbia became the first province to introduce EDLs for cross-border travel in conjunction with Washington State. | (2/27/2008) In the face of a possible recession, IT managers must cut their IT costs immediately, said analyst firm Gartner. Analysts at the firm believe economic factors had deteriorated to a point where action is required on the IT spending front, and advised businesses to prepare for cutting IT costs. | (2/25/2008) The Australian federal government recently announced it has commissioned a new defense whitepaper. It is the first appraisal of Australia's defense capability since the year 2000 when the previous government issued a whitepaper for the first time in decades. | (2/25/2008) IT management efforts to focus on service delivery within the enterprise are hamstrung by traditional IT management tools that view the world from a bottom-up perspective -- a method of managing individual components within a network under a specific category or silo. What's needed is a top-down perspective. | (2/21/2008) U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama has technology on his side. No, not necessarily the technology industry as a whole, although the Democrat's tech policy agenda has won him some support. Instead, Obama's campaign has embraced innovative technologies that help him connect with voters, volunteers and supporters. | (2/20/2008) The launch of Facebook's Beacon advertising system in November put the social networking site in the middle of a controversy over privacy, as Beacon was criticized for being too aggressive and stealthy in collecting and broadcasting information about users' activities online. | (2/20/2008) The launch of Facebook's Beacon advertising system in November put the social networking site in the middle of a controversy over privacy, as Beacon was criticized for being too aggressive and stealthy in collecting and broadcasting information about users' activities online. | (2/20/2008) How much reliability can you afford? Last Monday afternoon, BlackBerries stopped working again. For about three hours, the CrackBerry addicts couldn't get their mobile e-mail fix. The root cause: an unsuccessful infrastructure upgrade by BlackBerry vendor Research In Motion. | (2/15/2008) Richard Granger, the former head of NHS Connecting for Health, the agency charged with creating and delivering the UK$12.4 billion National Programme for IT in the NHS, has finally left Whitehall. | (2/15/2008) Two civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, complaining that the agency's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division has routinely searched many U.S. citizens' laptops and other electronic devices and questioned them about their religious practices and political beliefs. |
  | |  | | 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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