Digital Government
Canada hosts international flu conference
Meeting is intended to encourage global focus on reducing risks of an influenza pandemic.
Digital Government
Volunteer GIS group aids medical mission
Fifty mapping experts will donate time and equipment to gather data that can help improve services to the poor in developing countries.
Digital Government
USAID to award AIDS drug supply chain contract
The U.S. Agency for International Development will soon award a multimillion-dollar contract to develop a global supply chain management system for AIDS drugs.
People
U.K. experiments with luggable e-learning containers
Ministry of Defence ships portable e-learning centers wherever training is needed
Digital Government
Latitudes and longitudes
The U.S. health care community is not alone in its struggles with privacy, standards and other challenges to the health information technology agenda
Digital Government
U.K. completes major engineering work for health IT system
National Health Service hopes to fully deploy medical imaging system within two years.
Modernization
HHS seeks volunteers for Katrina disaster relief
The agency has created a Web site for medical professionals and IT and communications personnel with experience in health care IT who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts.
People
A new spin on global security
Technology is not the hard part when it comes to fostering international anti-terrorism efforts
Digital Government
Israel uses hands-on approach for trusted travelers
Biometrics-based system offers lessons for security officials
Digital Government
Hong Kong airport tunes
$50 million auto ID project to improve baggage handling and security
Digital Government
Australia releases e-health framework
The framework documents the approaches, policies and tools needed to foster interoperability across the health sector.
People
Britain outpaces the United States in e-democracy
Electronic tools stimulate citizen interest, involvement -- and accountability.
People
EDS to develop U.K. prison app
Under a $68 million contract, integrator will build system to track offenders from arraignment to probation.
People
Half of all Americans support a national ID card
Internet survey also finds that most Americans want biometrics used in ID cards, including passports, Social Security cards and driver's licenses.
People
Software on the trail of deadly weapons
State Department gives away tools to detect harmful exports and imports
Digital Government
Alberta launches $153.7M medical digital imagery system
The new system is expected to save the Canadian province $350 million a year.
Modernization
U.N. committee addresses Internet governance
The committee established to study Internet governance has concluded that no single government should have a dominant role.
Digital Government
G8 gives nod to U.S.-led project
World leaders endorse Global Earth Observation System of Systems for use in industrialized and developing nations.
Digital Government