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  Auckland council saves with SaaS docs management

  Auckland Regional Council (ARC) has eliminated costly outsourcing of document production by implementing a SaaS solution that handles collaboration and change management.

  By Rodney Gedda | 25 February, 2010 14:28

  Tags: collaboration, document management, government, New Zealand, objective

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  NSW Office of State Revenue CIO reflects on five successful years of open source

  NSW Office of State Revenue CIO David Kennedy looks back on the challenges and achievements the government agency has had with open source technology and offers advice to CIOs on developing a successful open source strategy.

  By Rodney Gedda | 01 October, 2009 08:28

  Tags: CIOs, government, NSW Office of State Revenue, open source

• Lost hard drive and other government data blunders

  The U.S. government says it's lost - yes, lost - an entire hard drive full of sensitive data. The external drive, stored at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, held personal data from the Clinton era, including information about White House staff and visitors and electronic storage tapes from the Executive Office of the President.

  By JR Raphael | 21 May, 2009 10:16

  Tags: government, hard drives, lost data, storage

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  Eight ways technology has shaped the US elections

  Technology has played a particularly prominent role in the 2008 US elections -- and it isn't just the typical silliness over whether a candidate really claimed to have invented a key piece of technology. Throughout the year we've seen technological advances used both for good, such as using Short Message Service to announce a vice presidential pick, and for bad, such as hacking into another vice presidential pick's private e-mail account. In this story, we'll take a look at the eight techiest moments of the 2008 presidential race, including YouTube debates, viral videos and e-voting controversies.

  By Brad Reed | 16 October, 2008 08:16

  Tags: Blackberry, cybercrime, e-voting, government