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Glen Murray is passionate about his vision for urban planning, specifically culturally dynamic urban centres, an issue he addressed in his keynote address to the Lac Carling Congress this year. The former mayor of Winnipeg, spoke with Lisa Williams, senior writer with InterGovWorld.com, on why we need to make changes in our urban planning now, the ups and downs of being mayor and the striking parallels between global warming and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Excerpts from their conversation follow:

The software vulnerability life cycle starts with a newly discovered or published vulnerability and ends when machines are patched. In practice, however, all machines will never be patched, so vulnerabilities are tracked as a half-life, when for example half of vulnerable hosts are patched. According to Qualys, the current half-life for Internet-facing hosts is 19 days, down from 30 days a couple of years ago. However, we lose this race to the hackers as the average latency now is only six days from discovery to attacks. It is important to note that 80 per cent of attacks occur during the first half-life. So if you are a target - and government departments are - you had better be patched or shield for a known vulnerability right away.

In the premiere of InterGovWorld's Spotlight series, Director General Dr. Arlene King of the Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat at the Public Health Agency of Canada speaks with InterGovWorld senior writer Lisa Williams about her previous work, as well as lessons learned from SARS.

An index of all past and present InterGovWorld.com spotlights.

Lionel Hurtubise, whose leadership expanded the frontiers of Canada's telecommunications industry, is joining the Hall of Fame of the Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA).

In an effort to encourage Canadian-made environmental technologies, three leading organizations announced a partnership to fund the research and development efforts of small- and medium-sized companies (SMBs) in Ontario to the tune of $1million.

Recognizing the growing importance of ICT to the state's economy, the government of Queensland, an Australian state, has joined other states by appointing a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) in addition to a Chief Information Officer (CIO).

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