(7/24/2008) HMRC extended the January 31 deadline due to a hardware problem that affected nearly 15,000 people attempting to submit online tax returns. | (6/30/2008) The U.K. government's newly appointed IT troubleshooter will examine how it can best exit failing technology projects, Computerworld UK has learnt. Downing Street said lessons had been learnt from the private sector, where companies were able to abandon even the largest IT schemes if they considered them to be failing or having a negative impact on business.
| (6/27/2008) Two U.S. senators called on U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to back off its assertion that it can search laptops and other electronic devices owned by U.S. citizens returning to the country without the need for reasonable suspicion of a crime or probable cause. | (6/27/2008) The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has detailed how it intends to implement a number of recommendations made by the Information Assurance Advisory Council regarding its data security. | (6/26/2008) A blueprint to streamline and consolidate its entire portfolio of applications will see the City of Mississauga move its entire suite of Oracle/PeopleSoft software to competitor SAP's line by the end of this year. | (6/19/2008) Legislation that requires the operators of 911 networks to allow VoIP providers to connect has been passed by the U.S. Senate. The Senate on Monday passed the New and Emerging Technologies 911 Improvement Act by unanimous consent. | (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. | (6/10/2008) 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. |
  | |  | | 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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