(2/13/2008) Plans for the General Motors of Canada Automotive Centre of Excellence were recently unveiled by officials from GM and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. The centre will be housed at the UOIT's Oshawa campus and aims to enhance engineering competitiveness in Canada's automotive sector. | (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. | (1/23/2008) When visiting Niagara Falls, chances are you're too enthralled by the beauty and power of the cataract to think of anything else. Until you cross the U.S./Canada border - then you have to think about the interrogation from customs agents and the video cameras locked in on your vehicle. | (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. | (11/29/2007) They're lean, they're mean, but they're not green when it comes to high-tech gadgets. York Region's finest has put technology in the front seat of police cruisers, enabling law enforcers to have more presence in the community. Representatives from the York Regional Police discuss how they're addressing the challenges of a tech sprawl. | (10/26/2007) Installations of digital video are growing at eye-popping rates. In 2006, the world market for network video surveillance products increased by 41.9 per cent, according to IMS Research, with the public sector as an avid adopter. Amid privacy concerns, the TTC is among those looking to adopt video technology to enhance security across its fleet of trains, buses and streetcars. | (10/25/2007) Rickety public transit systems are a prime target for multi-jurisdictional pooling of IT investments to develop gleaming new networks. In Ontario, the One Fare project was launched in June to develop a common contactless payment card system, dubbed Presto. | (10/12/2007) Mobile devices are everywhere these days, and people everywhere have greater expectations. Coupled with the heightened expectation of service delivery from the private sector, citizens expect something similar from their governments. Solving these challenges is not and has not been cheap. It's about balancing the cost against the need to implement policy. | (10/12/2007) Mobile devices are everywhere these days, and people everywhere have greater expectations. Coupled with the heightened expectation of service delivery from the private sector, citizens expect something similar from their governments. Solving these challenges is not and has not been cheap. It's about balancing the cost against the need to implement policy. | (10/4/2007) Many IT organizations working to improve IT service delivery and management processes depend on ITIL best practices, but the framework isn't always seen as the panacea adopters expected. New survey results show that 51 per cent of respondents use ITIL, but more (55 per cent) depend upon in-house developed practices to tweak processes. |
  | |  | | 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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