(2/12/2008) Canadian students living in remote or rural areas will soon get a boost in their education as a result of a partnership on behalf of Xerox Canada and Athabasca University in Alberta, which is aiming to develop a research program focused on advancing e-learning and mobile learning for students. | (2/12/2008) IT vendors can play a major role in reducing the world's energy consumption, but information about the benefits of technology has been lacking in an ongoing environmental debate in Washington, D.C., according to three tech CEOs. | (2/11/2008) Shortly after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) launched a new blog site to gather feedback from air travelers and respond to their suggestions, it halted a practice at some airports that required travelers to remove all electronic equipment from carry-on luggage during security screens. | (2/8/2008) The public sector faces some major challenges in replenishing its aging ranks, particularly in attracting young IT professionals to public service as university enrolments in computer science continue their steady decline. | (2/7/2008) Support for the Federal Government's A$15 million Information and Communications Technology (ICT) apprenticeship program on behalf of the Australian Public Service (APS) program was recently announced. The program is in conjunction with a four year APS program that will deliver up to 60 jobs within government agencies for young people. | (2/1/2008) A new research project in London, Ont. funded by the Ontario government is aiming to improve detection of neurological diseases such as brain cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's disease, according to Minister of Research and Innovation John Wilkinson. | (1/31/2008) For at least two more years the U.S. government will continue to watch over Microsoft's compliance with the terms of its famous antitrust case settlement. Court supervision of Microsoft's compliance with a U.S. antitrust settlement will continue until November 12, 2009, ruled federal district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly earlier this week. | (1/30/2008) According to a recent report by Forrester Research Inc., IT managers and CIOs in large companies who have actively resisted embracing Web 2.0 technologies like wikis, RSS, blogs and social networks will likely begin adding them to their priority lists in 2008. | (1/29/2008) Inside the latest issue of CIO Government Review. | (1/29/2008) Post-secondary education students are set to benefit from $7.9 million in funding from the Alberta government's Innovation Fund. The funding will go towards 15 projects that aim to promote innovation, collaboration and participation in post-secondary education. |
  | |  | | 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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