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Retail politics and downsized democracy
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Toronto's new mayor, Rob Ford, has pledged to cut city council in half. Although such downsizing is unlikely to be...
L’administrateur de l’avenir : ouvert sur le monde et visible
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Dans le numéro de janvier, Ruth Hubbard et David Zussman nous ont entretenus de l'importance de dire la vérité aux...
Voting digital: Markham connects through tech
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Technology has fundamentally changed the way governments and their citizens interact.
BlackBerries and bureaucracy
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As BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion negotiates with many governments around the world over data access and security, it is perhaps...
Medicine Hat jostles employees to communicate
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Poet Rudyard Kipling famously described southeastern Alberta as having "...all hell for a basement and the only trap door appears...
Gender’s digital divide
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To start with a timeless question: what do woman want? Presumably, whatever else may be on their list, they want...
Tomorrow’s Deputy: Outward looking and visible
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In the January issue, Ruth Hubbard and David Zussman discussed the importance of speaking truth to power.
What’s in your system? Integrated application modernization planning
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As the IT needs of an organization evolve, and existing systems age, it is critical to look at application modernization...
The rising tide of transparency
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One important consequence of climate change is rising ocean levels. The increases are gradual, imperceptible to most and yet potentially...
Four principles for application modernization
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With 69 percent of IT operating budgets and 54 percent of IT capital budgets now going toward maintaining existing systems,...