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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Parliament to start working on anti-malware law next month Action on Ottawa's long-awaited legislation is expected to begin shortly by the Industry committee. A group representing ISPs, a Liberal critic and a lawyer for Bell Canada suggest only small changes are needed, indicating it could be law by the end of the year.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
100 Gigabit Ethernet: Bridge to Terabit Ethernet The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is set to define standards for Ethernet at 40 Gigabits per second and 100 Gig. Task force chairman John D’Ambrosia looks ahead to terabit Ethernet
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Storage trade group gets green makeover SNIA has suddenly sprouted green leaves with a task force, working party, and tutorial all directed to making products more environmentally friendly
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Spotlight on Anil Arora, Statistics Canada, Part 1 Spotlight on Anil Arora, director general of the census program at Statistics Canada. In conversation with senior writer Lisa Williams, Arora explains how good project management practices prop up the national census, what was behind the controversy surrounding the outsourcing deal with Lockheed Martin, and how StatsCan mobilized a powerhouse task force to address urgent questions on procurement.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
Making haste slowly The arguments for a consistent, coordinated approach to IT security are irrefutable. Our society, and the world in which we live, have become increasingly if not irreversibly dependent on uninterrupted computer systems and computer-mediated communication. Not only is information technology in itself critical infrastructure, it is the horizontal foundation for the other critical infrastructure upon which we depend, from law enforcement and first response to medical care, from antiterrorism to road, rail and air transport.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Ontario urged to beef up project expertise A task force headed by former federal Auditor General Denis Desautels has some advice for the Ontario government on how to better manage large IT projects. If followed, these directives could have a significant impact on how IT service providers do business with the province. 
Monday, August 29, 2005
MPP The government of Ontario next month will take control of a controversial 3-year-old welfare payment system that critics say is still underperforming and failing to deliver a return on investment. The Social Delivery Model Technology (SDMT) system was custom-written by Accenture Ltd. to modernize and improve business processes at the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services (CSS). 
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
The unnatural selection process for CIOs If you aspire to the CIO role, it's time to get real about career development. Most people assume that when the time is right, they will have a good shot at getting the top IT job in their company. Sorry to say, but odds are that it's not going to happen. 
Thursday, May 01, 2003
Task force tracks spam in the enterprise Established in March and spearheaded by Vancouver-based open source
software provider Active State Corp., members say the spam problem is
serious, and they're vowing to tackle it once and for all.
Wednesday, December 04, 2002
Task force report looks at accuracy of Whois data It's a question that continues to plague the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), domain name registrars, and government: How best to ensure the accuracy of Whois data?
Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Insider warns foreign ownership changes may not come The comments made Tuesday by Industry Minister Allan Rock concerning possible changes to foreign ownership in Canadian telco companies shouldn’t leave any of the local carriers sighing in relief for quite some time. In reality, according to a government spokesperson, it’s quite possible Ottawa may leave the old system completely as is.
Monday, November 26, 2001
UN launches IT task force The United Nations launched Tuesday a new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force, a group intended to form broad partnerships to advance the United Nations' development goals and bring the benefits of technology to developing nations.
Thursday, December 21, 2000
Task force to make IM systems work together Despite having heard proposals for three instant messaging (IM) standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force will likely move toward a way to make different IM systems work together, rather than select one standard for all IM services to use.
Thursday, November 30, 2000
The New CIO Michelle d'Auray was appointed Chief Information Officer of Canada in September. She takes over the CIO helm from Linda Lizotte-MacPherson, who returned to the private sector following an Executive Interchange term. Although her background as Assistant Deputy Minister of Strategic Management at Canadian Heritage and Executive Director of Industry Canada’s Task Force on Electronic Commerce have prepared her well, she's finding breathing spaces in her new job few and far between. Lac Carling Governments' Review's David Newman interviewed her at the end of October.
Thursday, February 24, 2000
Vendors push 10 gigabit Ethernet 3Com, Cisco, Nortel, Sun, and others banded together early this month to rally support for the successor to gigabit Ethernet for enterprise networks and the Internet.
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