(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. | (3/30/2006) When the B.C. government auctioned off data storage tapes that contained details of the medical status of thousands of people b including whether they are HIV-positive, mentally ill or considered fit for work b they really stepped in it. But, sadly, it could have happened anywhere. | (3/28/2006) Florida state employees are being warned that their personal information may have been compromised after work on the state's human resources system was improperly subcontracted. | (3/28/2006) Workers misusing the Internet cause the most security incidents after viruses in large U.K. companies, a new government-sponsored study has found. | (3/23/2006) The first day that Sun Microsystems Inc. allowed users to buy access over the Internet to its long-delayed public utility grid, a denial of service attack forced the company to take down a service hosted on the grid | (3/21/2006) What would the IT industry be like without the entrenched institution of political lobbying? | (3/20/2006) Canadians are increasingly turning to the Internet to self-diagnose their medical conditions. | (3/17/2006) Investigators looking into the sale of 41 high-capacity tapes containing 77,000 personal medical files at a government auction in British Columbia earlier this month have been able to ascertain that it was not the B.C. Ministry of Employment and Investment's policy to sell tapes. | (3/13/2006) This ripple in the pond of municipal infrastructure advancements quickly became a tsunami. |
  | |  | | 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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