(4/3/2008) Twenty-three million Taiwan citizens will be issued biometric e-passports by the second half of 2008, under the new National Identity System (NIS) developed by Hewlett-Packard. The project aims to improve the detection of forged or altered passports and to ensure more convenient travel across borders. | (4/1/2008) Up to five million British citizens have been incorrectly taxed by the IT system at HM Revenue and Customs, the National Audit Office has warned. HMRC's pay as you earn IT systems were "not well suited to the efficient administration of income tax where people have more than one job or change jobs on a regular basis," the NAO said. | (3/28/2008) Accessible IT may sound like a good idea, but to many CIOs it looks complicated and expensive to provide for a comparatively small number of users. But things are changing. | (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. | (3/25/2008) 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. | (3/20/2008) 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) 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. | (3/18/2008) The players are at the table, and there are a couple of surprising faces looking to be dealt into Industry Canada's advanced wireless spectrum (AWS) auction. Last week, Industry Canada released a list of the companies who had filed a deposit in order to participate in the 2.4 GHz spectrum auction, scheduled for this May. At the end of March, Industry Canada will announce who among the applicants qualifies to bid. | (3/14/2008) No network is an island. An outage at the Smart Systems for Health Agency's (SSHA) One network in January that left several hundred doctors in Ontario unable to access patient health records for several days has roused concerns about the risks of housing electronic health records (EHRs) in interdependent networks. |
  | |  | | 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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