(5/15/2006) SAINT-SAUVEUR, QUE. - Senior managers from all levels of government and all regions of Canada paused Sunday at the Lac Carling Congress to hear a tribute to Joseph Galimberti, one of Canadab s most respected public-sector leaders for three decades. | (5/15/2006) SAINT-SAUVEUR, QUE. - Large urban areas are increasingly the drivers of economic prosperity around the world but Canada isnb t taking the right steps to make its major cities attractive to investment and the creative people who will produce growth, says Glenn Murray.
| (5/12/2006) Intel hopes to gain a head start on untapped markets in the Third World by launching World Ahead, a global program that will pour US$ 1 billion over the next five years to promote computer training and Internet use in developing countries. | (5/11/2006) The valuable service the Ottawa Food Bank provides is fixing to get more accessible, thanks to a new web-enabled communications tool. | (5/5/2006) As far as x-ray technology goes Nova Scotia will soon be completely filmless, the second province to do so after Prince Edward Island, as a result of a province-wide digital imaging system. | (5/3/2006) A new health care portal, dubbed NurseONE, is to launch in Saskatoon in June, the result of dogged efforts by the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB) of Health Canada and the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) to provide remote and rural nurses with a personalized interactive web-based resource. | (5/1/2006) When a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan detonates landmines, it's a tug between life and death. A tiny mistake could mean instant death. | (4/28/2006) While privacy remains a major concern for people around the world, a majority of consumers would share personal data if they knew the information was securely protected and if sharing it would make their lives easier, according to Unisys Corp.'s Global Study on the Public's Perceptions about Identity Management. | (4/28/2006) While privacy remains a major concern for people around the world, a majority of consumers would share personal data if they knew the information was securely protected and if sharing it would make their lives easier, according to Unisys Corp's Global Study on the Public's Perceptions about Identity Management. | (4/25/2006) Users from the health care community said the resignation of the Bush Administration's point man for health IT is unlikely to seriously hurt the national move to adopt electronic health records. |
  | |  | | 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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