(8/10/2007) A new Wi-Fi network in Minneapolis - only partially completed and just two months old - is nonetheless giving the city critical help in responding to last week's collapse of a highway bridge. The network helped the city with communications, moving large mapping files to the recovery site, and is supporting wireless cameras that are being installed to help with recovery operations. | (8/9/2007) Even as investigators continue to work to recover victims and pinpoint the cause of Wednesday's catastrophic collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, one topic getting more attention immediately is the availability of systems that can help highway officials better judge the health of the nation's bridges. | (8/9/2007) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) may be the hot button of the moment in enterprise application development, but at the Ontario government, it's really nothing new. "For us, SOA is more a re-branding of an approach we've had in play since about 1999" says Ron Huxter, chief technology officer. "We referred to it then as a common components approach." | (8/9/2007) Service-oriented architecture (SOA) may be the hot button of the moment in enterprise application development, but at the Ontario government, it's really nothing new. "For us, SOA is more a re-branding of an approach we've had in play since about 1999," says Ron Huxter, chief technology officer. "We referred to it then as a common components approach." | (8/8/2007) Much homework and hard footwork is needed to drive a compelling case for a SOA project. At SIMS (a shared information management services provider), the strategy is to start with a universal service that's required across all departments or agencies. A project like linking IDs, for example, aligns with the province's broader business objectives to improve services. | (8/7/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (8/7/2007) Service-oriented architecture or SOA is an architecture style, not a product or a project. It's an improvement over past architectures in that it captures and uses the best practices of the architectures that came before it. As such, SOA is an evolution in architecture, not a revolution. | (8/7/2007) U.K. Members of Parliament have called on the government to speed up its efforts to promote data sharing between government departments and local authorities to boost the uptake of council tax benefits. The MPs acknowledged concerns over privacy, but noted witnesses' evidence that the public may not share the same fears about data protection. | (8/6/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back | (8/3/2007) InterGovWorld.com readers write back |
  | |  | | 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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