(9/25/2008) Problems with the delivery of child welfare services due to a lack of a common system have been spotlighted again in recent years. | (8/28/2008) UK department dismisses claims that child database will be used to detect crimes and evidence for prosecution | (7/7/2008) Different approaches to wireless Internet access in San Francisco and neighbouring Silicon Valley are producing very different results, with one project springing up around the city and the other inching through regulatory procedures. | (7/4/2008) Toronto is joining the ranks of major cities such as New York, Chicago and Washington that are installing video surveillance to combat crime. | (7/3/2008) CIOs are not paying enough attention to their own training needs, a survey of the CIO Connect membership has revealed. CIO Connect, a membership organization of 250 UK based CIOs, found that providing training and development for their department was good, but many forgot to include themselves in development plans. | (7/2/2008) The New Zealand Department of Labour's planned "Single Client View" redevelopment of its immigration ICT system will collect biometric data from immigrants and integrate with other government identity management projects, according to a proposal for a privacy impact assessment. | (7/2/2008) If you're a California resident, it's time to hang up and drive. As of Tuesday, most drivers in the Golden State are prohibited from talking on their cell phone while driving unless they're using a handsfree device, such as a Bluetooth headset. | (7/2/2008) The U.K. government's Power of Information taskforce has launched a UK$20,000 competition for innovative ways to mash up public information. The taskforce, led by cabinet office minister Tom Watson has opened up mapping data from the Ordnance Survey, medical data from the NHS, neighbourhood statistics from the Office for National Statistics and a carbon calculator from Defra (the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). | (6/30/2008) Facing a potential onslaught of baby boomer retirements and a smaller pool of Generation X employees to replace them, IT managers who want to create or sustain a Best Place to Work environment will need the additional help of another group of professionals: Generation Y. |
  | |  | | 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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