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(1/30/2008) The federal government's desktop security mandate kicks in this week, requiring government agencies to support standard secure configurations for Windows XP and Vista operating systems. Known as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration standard, the FDCC will require agencies to apply and maintain standard security settings on all desktops and laptops. | (1/30/2008) According to a recent report by Forrester Research Inc., IT managers and CIOs in large companies who have actively resisted embracing Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, RSS, blogs and social networks will likely begin adding them to their priority lists in 2008. | (1/29/2008) Inside the latest issue of CIO Government Review. | (1/29/2008) Microsoft recently unveiled a product package aimed at local and regional e-government initiatives, in the midst of growing government opposition in Europe to proprietary software. Microsoft's Citizen Service Platform includes applications and templates designed for local and regional governments primarily in Europe and the U.S. | (1/28/2008) Despite numerous incentives and legislative edicts lobbed at U.S. agencies over the years, boosting the ranks of federal employees who telework is a slow, sometimes painful process. | (1/28/2008) As the result of using government computers to visit an "egregious" number of pornographic Web sites in 2007 nine city employees in the District of Columbia have been fired. | (1/25/2008) Governments have been taking tentative steps towards establishing a presence in the virtual world. And while the business case may yet to be proven, there is potential for the public sector to utilize virtual applications such as Second Life, says analyst Alison Brooks. | (1/24/2008) Health-care providers around the world are undergoing a digital transformation, harnessing information communication technologies such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and applying it in innovative ways to increase operational efficiencies, improve services and save lives. | (1/23/2008) When visiting Niagara Falls, chances are you're too enthralled by the beauty and power of the cataract to think of anything else. Until you cross the U.S./Canada border - then you have to think about the interrogation from customs agents and the video cameras locked in on your vehicle. | (1/22/2008) The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has released a summary of the findings of its investigations into the use of free and open source software (FOSS) within federal government agencies indicating most expect to increase its use over the next five years. |
  | |  | | 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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