(4/17/2006) The University of Alberta has emerged as the top Canadian team at the 30th Annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) world finals held Wednesday in San Antonio, Tex. | (4/12/2006) Scott Rourke, president, OneCleveland vividly recalls the morning of January 17 when he opened his Inbox, and saw the e-mail he had been waiting for. It had Congratulations in the subject line, but this time it wasn't spam! | (4/11/2006) It is with deep regret that InterGovWorld has learned of the sudden death of a good friend, Joseph Joe Galimberti, executive director of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada, IPAC, on Sunday, April 9. | (4/10/2006) A teenaged programming wiz who wrote his first DOS command at the age of four has joined software companies in calling for simpler and updated intellectual property laws. | (4/10/2006) Electronic sharing of health information is still in the Wild West stage of US federal regulation, privacy advocates say. | (4/7/2006) An IBM supercomputer directly related to the famous Deep Blue that battled chess grand master Gary Kasparov in 1997 has recently been recruited to aid Canadian researchers in the fight against cancer. | (4/7/2006) Electronic sharing of health information is still in the "Wild West" stage of U.S. federal regulation, privacy advocates say. | (4/7/2006) Although there have been numerous incidents of lost or stolen data storage devices dangerously exposing thousands of confidential and private information files, a fiasco that came to light in British Columbia in March came with a twist: this time, the data was neither lost nor stolen; it was sold, albeit unknowingly, by the B.C. government through an auction of over 40 data tapes. | (4/6/2006) Health care industry experts were divided in their assessments of Tuesday's speech from the throne. | (3/30/2006) The Conservatives' first few months in power have not been uneventful. As the new Cabinet gets to work and Parliament reconvenes, an agenda presents itself that is at once busy and risky for a minority government: an inaugural budget, child care and health care changes, softwood lumber and new defence spending, Senate elections and institutional change and, perhaps, eventually, even a free vote on the definition of marriage. |
  | |  | | 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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