(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. | (10/22/2007) In light of the increasing number of identity theft victims, the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007 was introduced by two U.S. senators last week. The Act proposes adding protections for consumers who fall victim to identity theft to the existing bill focused on data privacy and security that passed the Senate Judiciary Committee in May. | (10/17/2007) The Defence Department has taken on the challenge of transforming its IT organization into a service-oriented entity for delivering information management services to the entire organization. The initiative's director, Len Bastien, provides the rationale behind this IM rationalization. | (10/12/2007) In an effort to strengthen their emergency measures, New Brunswick's Emergency Measures Organization, has selected crisis software to support emergency incident management efforts internally. The provincial agency has chosen ESS Crisis software in partnership with local responder agencies such as police and fire departments. | (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. | (10/9/2007) The U.S. federal government has shut down two California Web sites that were redirecting readers to unauthorized content, after the sites have been reportedly hacked. Late last week, compromised pages hosted by the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Superior Court of Madera County, California, were still hosting inappropriate content. | (10/5/2007) When a computer scientist gets an MBA, and then becomes almost infatuated with economics, the result can be a unique, market-based analysis of IT security. MBA security specialist Ionut Ionescu gives his take on hacking, forensics and incident management. | (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. | (10/3/2007) The U.S. National Science Foundation is funding research that may enable computers to respond to a user's levels of frustration or boredom. Tufts University researchers are exploiting near-infrared spectroscopy technology that uses light to pick up on emotional cues by monitoring brain blood flow. |
  | |  | | 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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