(6/17/2008) The U.K. government's use of large IT databases on citizens has been slammed by David Davis MP as he resigned from parliament. The resignation is the latest vocal attack on the government's IT databases, after the Home Affairs Committee urged the government to stop creating databases without first proving they are necessary. | (6/17/2008) According to vendor-independent analyst firm CMS Watch, a general lack of system and administrative services threatens to undermine the benefits of improved collaboration and networking from social software technologies. | (6/16/2008) Deployment of a national access card will be a job for private industry, not government, according to the federal Human Services Minister, Joe Ludwig. The government launched scathing criticism at the Howard government's plans for a national identity card, but has remained open at the philosophy behind the initiative.
| (6/13/2008) Two months after their Web site was hacked, the organizers of Barack Obama's presidential campaign are looking for a network security expert to help lock down their Web site. "Obama for America is looking for a network security expert who wants to play a key role in a historic political campaign," reads the ad, posted to the Barackobama.com Web site.
| (6/13/2008) A bill before the U.S. Senate targeted at spyware needs some fine-tuning, with part of it seemingly allowing broadband providers and computer software and hardware vendors to scan users' computers without authorization, a couple of spyware experts said. | (6/12/2008) How did a little city of 78,000 souls in British Columbia earn the big title of "Capital of Google Earth"? The city of Nanaimo achieved the title inadvertently, says Per Kristensen, director of IT. "We didn't come up with it - it was coined by Time magazine last year," he says. | (6/11/2008) Canadian law enforcement officials, including the RCMP, have launched a partnership with Microsoft to receive training on the latest technologies and threats in order to tackle the increasingly sophisticated world of cyber crime. | (6/10/2008) The U.K. government has been urged to stop creating large databases on citizens without first proving they are necessary by the Home Affairs Committee. The call for a reduction in citizen data collection comes just weeks after the government shortlisted five IT suppliers on its ID card project and after plans were revealed that it wanted to make a database of all phone calls and emails in the U.K. | (6/9/2008) As home to one of the world's top universities, Harvard Square normally hosts the exchange of ideas, but can now host the exchange of data, too. Last week a number of businesses and organizations partnered to launch free public Wi-Fi for users within a half mile of the square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | (6/9/2008) What do CEOs want from their CIOs, and how can CIOs build on the power gains they've built up, even as everything around them is changing? CIO magazine tackled just that subject during a panel session at the CIO Leadership Conference and found five main keys to being a top-notch CIO today-and tomorrow. |
  | |  | | 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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