Taking a Look at Wiki Software
February 21, 2012, No Comments

Wikis are a form of collaborative software used primarily for the display of large amounts of related information. The p ...

Cloud Computing and Government Security
February 15, 2012, No Comments

Cloud computing is used by the government to both help make public services more accessible and to keep certain secrets ...

A Guide to Common Look and Feel
February 6, 2012, No Comments

Common Look and Feel is a standard developed by the Treasury Board of the Canadian Government to help make accessible we ...

An Inside Look at Alfresco Software
February 1, 2012, No Comments

Alfresco Software is an open-source platform that incorporates the flexibility and innovation of open source programming ...

Web 2.0 and the Government
January 23, 2012, 1 Comment

The Canadian government has demonstrated exceptional foresight with its embrace of the Web 2.0 initiative. Essentially, ...

An Inside Look at Drupal
January 23, 2012, 1 Comment

Aside from having a phonetically intriguing name, the content management system Drupal also has a dedicated core of prog ...

Geospatially Speaking
September 13, 2011, No Comments

The development of apps to parse open data has long been a mainstay of the movement, but these apps have traditionally b ...

The Utilitarian Future: Tablets Replace User Creativity?
August 22, 2011, No Comments

In Europe, tablet sales are up while desktop, laptop, and netbook sales are down. Why is this news? The touch-screen tab ...

One of These Operating Systems Must Go
August 16, 2011, No Comments

It’s been a weird week for smart phones. Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion has been in the news for its inadv ...

Hacker as Journalist: Journalist as Hacker
August 3, 2011, No Comments

What is the difference between Rupert Murdoch’s phone hacking scandal and the LulzSec computer hackers? Primarily, one ...