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(3/11/2008) Few organizations want to admit that a large project is failing. But some projects will never meet their deadlines or deliver the expected benefits. When the possibility of success is gone, these projects often must be euthanized for the health of the corporation. | (3/11/2008) More than 600 predictions were released by analysts this week in ICT industry research reports that identify a long list of trends, forecasts and estimates ranging from the top technologies for the year 2010 to growing tensions in the telecommunications industry as a result of convergence. | (3/10/2008) The world can't get enough wireless. Canada's Research in Motion has put a whole desktop of communication in anybody's pocket. In California, rental cars now have optional high-speed Internet service. | (3/10/2008) Governments are collecting increasing amounts of data about their citizens, and the need to handle all of it in a secure way is motivating ministries, departments and agencies to improve their IT security infrastructures. Although some are embracing the new defence imperative willingly and quickly, others are finding it a much tougher challenge. | (3/7/2008) The United Nations recently published its 2008 Global E-Government Review, an exhaustive comparator of countries and trends from all regions of the world. Relative to the last such undertaking in 2005, Canada's performance is stagnant, up one place from seventh to eighth. | (3/7/2008) Social networking channels such as MySpace and Facebook have spawned virtual communities of users sharing personal information and bound by their common interests. It's impossible to ignore the information-sharing potential of these tools and new government policies will have to take them into account - but how? | (3/6/2008) Ontario's Smart System for Health Agency marked its five-year anniversary this week by laying out its blueprint for the future. The strategic plan, among other things, presents strategies aimed at fostering the growth of electronic communication between practitioners, enabling increased use of electronic patient health records, and helping to avert any future pandemic outbreaks. | (3/5/2008) A joint technology program to be delivered by Hamilton, Ont.-based McMaster University and Mohawk College is set to receive $16.5 million in funding from the Ontario government. The funding will go towards construction of new classroom and lab facilities, and aims to meet demand in the tech sector for highly skilled workers. | (3/5/2008) A Web site and campaign designed to persuade physicians to switch from paper-based prescriptions of medications to electronic prescribing has been launched by five medical organizations. | (3/4/2008) The U.S. government's CIO and other federal officials have downplayed privacy concerns related to the expanded monitoring of federal networks that is planned under a multiyear initiative ordered by President Bush to boost cyber security at agencies. |
  | |  | | 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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