(3/28/2008) Washington Gov. Chris Gregoir this week signed a bill making it a Class C felony to use RFID technology to spy on someone. The bill was signed about a week after the Washington State Senate unanimously passed Bill 1031, which makes it a crime to intentionally scan people's identification remotely without their knowledge and consent, for the purpose of fraud, identity theft, or some other illegal purpose. | (3/27/2008) Next-generation Canadian voting technology is making its way onto the American political stage. The secure voting technology was developed by the University of Ottawa last year and tested in graduate student elections. | (3/26/2008) Private contract employees working at the U.S. Department of State have repeatedly accessed U.S. Senator Barack Obama's passport records over the past three months -- a breach flagged by the State Department's in-house computer system but subsequently downplayed by the supervisors of the offices in which the breaches occurred. | (3/26/2008) IBM announced last week that it would integrate a virtual worlds platform into Lotus Sametime, Big Blue's collaboration software, that will be used by the U.S. Intelligence agencies to communicate on key topics such as terrorism. | (3/25/2008) In my decade as a CIO, I've seen a lot of turnover in the IT industry. Each time I hear about a CIO being fired, I ask around to learn the root cause. Here's my list of the top 10 ways to be a bad CIO. | (3/24/2008) Britain is under increased threat from state-sponsored cyber attacks, the government says, and it plans to spend on IT to tackle them. Announcing the publication of the first National Security Strategy for the U.K. last week, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the government will "modernize its interception capability." | (3/24/2008) The U.S. Department of Justice announced last week that a former education consultant from California has been sentenced to serve seven-and-a-half years in prison for rigging bids and defrauding a U.S. government program designed to help schools and libraries in poor areas connect to the Internet. | (3/20/2008) According to a report that measures the online performance of a variety of sites, user satisfaction with federal government Web sites is at its lowest point in three years. | (3/19/2008) The Competition Bureau recently launched Project False Hope, aimed at targeting online cancer-related health fraud and raising public awareness. Under this initiative dozens of Canadian-operated Web sites that offer cancer-related products that raise concerns under the Competition Act have been uncovered, according to the bureau. | (3/19/2008) Concerned health sources say the New Zealand Ministry of Health's National Systems Development Programme (NSDP) hasn't delivered in its first two years and is in danger of becoming another INCIS. |
  | |  | | 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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