Saturday | 5 July, 2008
Government
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Six Megatrends Reshaping Government 03 July, 2008 11:44:20
A new report from IBM warns of the growing global impact of rapid changes in several areas beyond government controlA new report from IBM warns of the growing global impact of rapid changes in several areas beyond government control - +
How social networking saved New Orleans 30 June, 2008 08:08:37
Powered by community, New Orleans residents exposed city hall and the power of social softwareIf there is any doubt to the power of social media, social networking and social software, then nonbelievers may need to Think New Orleans. - +
Governments Should Draw on Wisdom of Crowds 19 June, 2008 12:33:19
A new report from Deloitte says that leading businesses have trained people to expect high-quality, personalized services, and these are standards which citizens are now applying to governmentA new report from Deloitte says that leading businesses have trained people to expect high-quality, personalized services, and these are standards which citizens are now applying to government - +
Web 2.0: What's a local government to do? 18 June, 2008 08:39:06
The promise of better communication with constituents must be balanced with security, privacy, other issuesOnline constituent services, security, privacy, data integrity and 24/7 operations are already on the lengthy to-do lists of busy government IT workers. Should Web 2.0 features be added to those lists and become another integral part of the online services government provides? - +
How one cash-strapped school district improved application performance 17 June, 2008 11:07:01
Podcasting and videoconferencing now possible across saturated links thanks to WAN accelerationEducation demands so much more than a notebook and pen these days.
Case Studies
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City water plugs leaks with CMS 04 April, 2008 11:32:29
IT centralises management of SCADA, GIS and IVRCity West Water has reduced maintenance costs, eliminated paper based reporting and increased responsiveness with an integrated job management system and a new fleet of Next G handsets. - +
When Yanking the Mainframe Isn't an Option 04 February, 2003 11:29:40
Employees, partners and customers want access to information on demand. They don’t want to wait months or years to get the capability. Yet, existing legacy systems weren’t designed for such flexibility, and IT budgets are tight.Minnesota's solution may have been cheap and inelegant, but it works just fine. - +
Family Matters 25 November, 2002 11:36:15
Struggling to cope with a rapidly growing caseload, CSA needed to develop an intelligent communication solution to improve its capacity to meet the needs of its clients - over a million separated parents around the country.The CRM strategy initiated by Australia's Child Support Agency had an unusual aim: to encourage clients to look after themselves and rely on the agency less. - +
At the Gateway 25 November, 2002 11:17:16
Australia leads the Asia-Pacific region in the transition to e-government.John Costello investigates how government organisations at all levels are using portal technology in a variety of ways to meet the needs of their communities. - +
Portal U 25 November, 2002 08:49:31
While the curriculum shifted in response to the business world's need for tech-savvy graduates, the school's IT infrastructure remained a relic of the past. It was ironic that a business school trying to turn out tomorrow's tech leaders should be hobbled by such a dated system.How to connect students, faculty, staff, alumni and businesses so that they can share the school's services, research and applications? Go for the gateway approach.
Interviews
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Auditor: US Govt Still Has Security Gaps 15 June, 2007 11:41:14
Every agency has to go through a certification and accreditation process, not only at initial deployment, but also every three years thereafter or whenever there is a major change of the system. But what we are finding is that agency security testing and evaluation procedures are not very effectiveDespite some progress in recent years, most US federal agencies still have significant gaps in their information security controls, according to Gregory Wilshusen, director of information security issues at the Government Accountability Office (GAO). - +
re-learning e-learning 09 October, 2001 09:30:00
Thomas Koulopoulos thinks e-learning technology can help turn staid skills-training into learning on the fly.
Opinions
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Making the right impression 07 April, 2008 09:32:26
Canberra still doesn't understand the importance of ICT to all aspects of Australian life and developmentThe team has been chosen for the 2020 Summit. When Canberra plays host to 1000 participants on April 19 and 20, the ICT industry (our industry), will be represented by a mere handful of people. - +
Joined Up Government 09 December, 2003 11:13:27
With state government IT leaders across Australia working out of new playbooks prescribing greater use of shared services as the way to boost efficiency and slash costs, comes word of a fascinating experiment being carried out in Denmark. - +
So You Want to Restructure? 09 December, 2003 14:29:48
There are some useful approaches and principles all CIOs or equivalents might consider when restructuring management reporting linesWith management restructures there's only one rule: get it right first time - +
Procurement Risks 09 December, 2003 10:18:32
Learning the lessons of Commonwealth IT procurement - +
Fair Warning 08 August, 2003 11:55:08
Commonwealth Auditor-General Pat Barrett has issued a timely reminder that widespread moves towards contracting out of government services in no way relieve agencies of their obligations to transparency, responsiveness and accountability.
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Gates says goodbye to MicrosoftAs Bill Gates steps down from the day to day operations at Microsoft he'll be dedicating most of his time to philanthropic efforts at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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CIO Live Podcast #79: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires Part II 05 October, 2007 06:00:00
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #78: Brent D Taylor, author of The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires 28 September, 2007 17:34:25
For his new book, The Outsider's Edge: The Making of Self-Made Billionaires, social researcher Brent D Taylor spent four years of intensive research investigating the psychological make-up and backgrounds of some of the world's richest men and women, including IT luminaries Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Steve Jobs. Taylor discovered that, despite working in different industries and coming from different upbringings, they all have one thing in common -- they are all outsiders. - +
CIO Live Podcast #77: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part III 21 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part three in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #76: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part II 14 September, 2007 07:00:00
Part two in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance. - +
CIO Live Podcast #75: Panasonic Speeds Up Trans-Pacific File Transfers, Part I 07 September, 2007 07:00:05
Part one in our three-part special report from CIO's sister publication Network World in the US, as Paul Desmond reports from the Network World IT Roadmap Conference in Santa Clara, California. With development teams in the US and Japan, Panasonic needed a more efficient way to move very large files between the two locations. Iben Rodriguez, IT consultant for Panasonic Research and Development, explains how a storage-area network and virtual server technology helped speed up WAN performance.
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'I have a lost laptop horror story for you' 30 June, 2008 10:08:14
The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow...The devil of identity theft is in the details that follow: Russ Jones tells a tale of woe that isn't particularly dramatic -- or rare -- and yet it's exactly the kind of story that worries me enough to ignore my better judgment and buy identity-theft protection from my insurance provider. - +
SQL attacks lobs onto pro tennis site 02 July, 2008 11:52:19
Wimbledon perfect time for crook's criminal racket.Visitors to the Association of Tennis Professionals Web site have potentially been infected with spyware after apparent lax security allowed a malicious script to be injected across its pages. - +
Hacking tools: A new version of BackTrack helps ethical hackers 30 June, 2008 10:57:21
BackTrack is the quickest way to get access to hundreds of (legal) hacking toolsVersion 3.0 of BackTrack has been released. BackTrack is a Linux-based distribution dedicated to penetration testing or hacking (depending on how you look at it). It contains more than 300 of the world's most popular open source or freely distributable hacking tools. - +
Japanese military loses data again 02 July, 2008 08:17:21
Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data on joint US-Japan military exerciseJapan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday. - +
ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking 03 July, 2008 08:37:23
Two civil liberties groups sue the US Department of Justice over mobile phone trackingThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the US Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users.
Ballarat Grammar Improves Student Access to Computer Based Learning with HP ProCurve 04 July, 2008 16:49:00
Media release: 40 Per Cent of Australian Businesses Do Not Validate Their Data 04 July, 2008 10:29:00
Kaseya helps turbo charge BlueFire’s service delivery model 03 July, 2008 17:23:00
Computershare Selects Symantec for Data Loss Prevention Globally 03 July, 2008 14:52:00
DST International moves to new Shanghai office 03 July, 2008 13:21:00
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