(1/18/2008) Back in June 2006, when Facebook was still a university phenomenon, a group of civil servants started up the Government 2.0 Think Tank (G2TT) in Ottawa. Led by Patrick Cormier, then a military lawyer and a project director at the Department of National Defence (DND), G2TT's aim was to provide a forum to connect people who want to use open source and Web 2.0 concepts to make governments more efficient and interactive. | (1/18/2008) Back in June 2006, when Facebook was still a university phenomenon, a group of civil servants started up the Government 2.0 Think Tank (G2TT) in Ottawa. Led by Patrick Cormier, then a military lawyer and a project director at the Department of National Defence (DND), G2TT's aim was to provide a forum to connect people who want to use open source and Web 2.0 concepts to make governments more efficient and interactive. | (1/17/2008) The growing importance of inter-jurisdictional collaboration in service delivery framed a recent national meeting of federal, provincial and territorial deputy ministers responsible for service delivery. As part of this November 2007 gathering in Halifax, deputies not only grappled in the immediacy of identity management challenges but also longer term trends pertaining to the future of integrated service delivery and more seamless governance for the public sector as a whole. | (1/17/2008) The growing importance of inter-jurisdictional collaboration in service delivery framed a recent national meeting of federal, provincial and territorial deputy ministers responsible for service delivery. As part of this November 2007 gathering in Halifax, deputies not only grappled in the immediacy of identity management challenges but also longer term trends pertaining to the future of integrated service delivery and more seamless governance for the public sector as a whole. | (1/16/2008) Known for its lighthouses, iconic Blue Nose ship, scrumptious seafood and lively Celtic music, Nova Scotia may not be the first province that pops into your head when you think of technology leaders in Canada. But that may soon change. | (1/16/2008) Known for its lighthouses, iconic Blue Nose ship, scrumptious seafood and lively Celtic music, Nova Scotia may not be the first province that pops into your head when you think of technology leaders in Canada. But that may soon change. | (1/14/2008) The grassroots effort by thousands of Canadians on Facebook was one of the biggest factors in causing the government's delay of a controversial copyright reform bill last month. Now, that effort is expanding virtually all across the country. | (1/14/2008) The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) said in a report on Microsoft's Vista operating system and Office 2007 that British schools should not upgrade to the software. It also supported use of the international standard ODF (Open Document Format) for storing files. | (1/11/2008) Following a Ministry of Justice review the U.K. government computer system that was established to track criminal offenders is set to be dramatically scaled back. The system was originally seen as offering an end-to-end platform for the probation and prisons service, as well as justifying the creation of the National Offender Management Service. | (1/10/2008) The Centers for Democracy and Technology (CDT) have warned that a proposed new RFID-enabled passport card intended for use by Americans frequently travelling to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda and the Caribbean poses serious security and privacy risks for users. |
  | |  | | 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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