(5/20/2008) Back in 2006, government announcements were made about the introduction of a new 511 telephone information service by the end of 2007. But progress on this initiative has been slow. | (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. | (5/16/2008) As Google Street View prepares to launch in Europe, the EU's data protection supervisor Peter Hustinx has urged Google to respect local privacy rules. Although he hasn't been in direct contact with the Internet search giant about Street View, Hustinx is very aware of it. | (5/15/2008) Technology is a factor in enabling the Ontario government to meet their green targets, but behaviour and mindset also plays a role, according to associate deputy minister Hugh MacLeod. "This is a transformational change for which new conversations and new partners are required," said MacLeod yesterday at a Green Technologies town hall meeting hosted by the Office of the Corporate Chief Technology Officer. | (5/14/2008) Microsoft Corp.'s plan to fill its mammoth Chicago data centre with servers housed in 40-foot shipping containers has experts wondering whether the strategy will succeed. In Microsoft's plan, each container in the data centre, still being built, will be filled with several thousand servers. | (5/14/2008) Microsoft Corp.'s plan to fill its mammoth Chicago data centre with servers housed in 40-foot shipping containers has experts wondering whether the strategy will succeed. In Microsoft's plan, each container in the data centre, still being built, will be filled with several thousand servers. | (5/13/2008) Following a spate of high profile data breaches, the U.S. Ministry of Defence is set to install encryption software on 20,000 of its laptops. It will install BeCrypt's Disk Baseline software across Royal Airforce, Army and Navy laptops, and users will need to be authenticated before they can access encrypted data. | (5/13/2008) Africa requires 1.3 million networking professionals by 2012 for technology in the region to operate effectively, according to a Cisco official. South Africa-based Cisco Systems area academic manager Elfie Hamid said in Lusaka, Zambia, recently that Africa is facing a massive shortage of ICT, both in industry and training institutions. | (5/12/2008) Instead of starting from scratch, the IT industry needs to benchmark and copy best practice methodology, according to Government CIO John Suffolk. In a wide-ranging keynote at Green IT 08 conference in London, Suffolk lambasted the IT industry for not recording and following best practice when it comes to infrastructure design. |
  | |  | | 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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