Mark Els

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Privacy advocates have asked Parliament to enact legislation that will require organizations to report and notify their customers if protection of their personal information has been breached.

Governments in Canada have identified at least 10 priorities for a 2007 information and technology to-do list that aims to push operational efficiency, consolidate infrastructure resources, and cut maintenance costs.

Former Ontario CIO Scott Campbell points out that if governments don't take the lead by dealing with cross-jurisdictional decisions, they run the risk of being replaced by e-communities - non-governmental groups of individuals who come together online to lobby for a decision.

A few months after the 2001 terrorist attack on New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's mandate was straightforward: Make the Big Apple a better place to live in. For his part, in four years as CIO of New York City, Gino Menchini helped set new standards for local government to be more accessible and more accountable to its citizens.

With the lines of government jurisdiction constantly blurring, and altering the nature of Canadian federalism, new mechanisms may be needed for the IT and policy management of service delivery initiatives.

A few months after the 2001 terrorist attack on New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg

With the lines of government jurisdiction constantly blurring, and altering the nature of Canadian federalism, new mechanisms may be needed for the IT and policy management of service delivery initiatives.