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(12/18/2007) The City of Brockville in Ontario has become the latest municipality to offer Industry Canada's online service tool BizPaL. "Whenever we can simplify the paperwork and bureaucracy and get to the business quickly, we not only should do so, but must do so," said Brockville Mayor Dave Henderson. | (12/18/2007) British Columbia's Ministry of Health is creating a Health Authority Shared Services organization tasked to pursue non-clinical shared services initiatives among the province's health authorities. Health Minister George Abbott cited achieving cost reduction and resource optimization as the rationale for the undertaking. | (12/17/2007) The stories that get the most ink on information security issues are usually the ones about massive data breaches and other foul-ups - especially if they happen within government. | (12/17/2007) Public and private consultations are underway in the U.K. as the government pursues its data sharing plan that was part of a comprehensive review, which was initially announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown in October. One of the issues being addressed is the possibility of amending the Data Protection Act. | (12/14/2007) Interoperability is the number one issue facing Canadian first responders with respect to improving their ability to enhance public safety. This was one of the key findings of a survey, Keeping Canadians Safe, released yesterday by the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) which polled 144 chiefs of fire, police, paramedic and emergency response organizations. | (12/14/2007) Microsoft Thursday released the first public beta of its virtualization technology, shipping the bits ahead of its previously planned date in early 2008. The Hyper-V virtualization beta originally was scheduled to ship when Windows Server 2008 was completed. | (12/13/2007) Minister of Industry Jim Prentice has urged greater competition and increased innovation in the wireless sector. His comments were made during Industry Canada's release last week of details on how the auction for Advanced Wireless Services spectrum, set for May 27 2008, will be conducted. | (12/13/2007) Canada is trailing the U.S. at encouraging more entrepreneurs and creating new businesses, according to a recent study released by Vancouver-based The Fraser Institute. The study entitled, Measuring Business Creation in Canada and the United States, examines new business creation in all 50 U.S. states and 10 Canadian provinces. | (12/12/2007) Despite added costs and complexity, business and government sectors are becoming wedded to data encryption, even though at times it's like an arranged marriage driven by regulatory compliance and fear of data-breach fiascos. | (12/12/2007) Despite added costs and complexity, business and government sectors are becoming wedded to data encryption, even though at times it's like an arranged marriage driven by regulatory compliance and fear of data-breach fiascos. |
  | |  | | 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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