(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. | (2/13/2008) Plans for the General Motors of Canada Automotive Centre of Excellence were recently unveiled by officials from GM and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. The centre will be housed at the UOIT's Oshawa campus and aims to enhance engineering competitiveness in Canada's automotive sector. | (2/12/2008) Canadian students living in remote or rural areas will soon get a boost in their education as a result of a partnership on behalf of Xerox Canada and Athabasca University in Alberta, which is aiming to develop a research program focused on advancing e-learning and mobile learning for students. | (2/11/2008) Shortly after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) launched a new blog site to gather feedback from air travelers and respond to their suggestions, it halted a practice at some airports that required travelers to remove all electronic equipment from carry-on luggage during security screens. | (2/11/2008) Many Canadian senior-level enterprise architects and data management types turned out for the MDM Canada Summit last week, which featured a panel discussion dubbed "Managing Master Data in the Very Large Enterprise" that yielded the best practices that have come out of the Hudson's Bay Company's and the Bank of Montreal's own MDM experience. | (2/8/2008) The public sector faces some major challenges in replenishing its aging ranks, particularly in attracting young IT professionals to public service as university enrolments in computer science continue their steady decline. | (2/7/2008) Support for the Federal Government's A$15 million Information and Communications Technology (ICT) apprenticeship program on behalf of the Australian Public Service (APS) program was recently announced. The program is in conjunction with a four year APS program that will deliver up to 60 jobs within government agencies for young people. | (2/4/2008) There is still a lot of work to do before even well connected countries realize the full economic benefits of ICT, according to a study ranking governments worldwide on their use of communications technology and infrastructure. | (2/4/2008) If Microsoft's offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion is accepted, privacy groups are threatening a fight before U.S. regulatory agencies. Microsoft announced that it sent an offer to Yahoo's board of directors last Thursday, going public with the news Friday morning. | (2/1/2008) A new research project in London, Ont. funded by the Ontario government is aiming to improve detection of neurological diseases such as brain cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's disease, according to Minister of Research and Innovation John Wilkinson. |
  | |  | | 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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