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(2/28/2008) Statistics Canada has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), which aims to streamline data from the telecommunications industry. | (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. | (2/27/2008) Northwest Territories joins the list of eight provinces and territories that have joined BizPal, an online business that helps Canadian businesses identify which permits and licences they require and how to obtain them. | (2/26/2008) As the federal government prepares to table its 2008 budget, Bernard Courtois, the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC) president and CEO, is hopeful that reforms will be made to the Canadian personal income tax regime. | (2/26/2008) The Conservative government's long-delayed copyright reform bill has hit yet another roadblock, this time in the form of a powerful business coalition comprised of corporate giants such as Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. | (2/26/2008) A new satellite-based communication device from Globalstar could be of great use to the federal government's search and rescue efforts, according to no less of an authority than Les Stroud, aka TV's Survivorman. | (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. | (2/22/2008) In his address to local government leaders this week, Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers urged industry to team up with cities in order to battle climate change. Saying his views had changed from just five or six years ago, the head of the world's largest network builder cozied up to officials from municipalities around the world at the Connected Urban Development Global Conference in San Francisco. | (2/21/2008) Organizations in both the public and private sector are tightening the screws on their Internet usage policies and enforcement procedures. The rise of social media such as Facebook and bandwidth-gobbling video sites such as YouTube is prompting many to revisit and tighten their rules, says Daniel Lublin, a Toronto-based employment lawyer. |
  | |  | | 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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