Canada's public sector organizations are doing a better job than private sector companies when it comes to buying and using communication and information technologies, a new study suggests.
Public sector organizations also are doing a much better job than private sector firms when it comes to training their employees to use new technology, the study says.
"The Canadian public sector is leading the private sector in technological change and in supporting new technology acquisition change," Statistics Canada researcher Louise Earl wrote in a report published by the federal agency yesterday.
Ms. Earl's report looks at the rate of technological change among public and private sector organizations from 2000 to 2002.
"That was just after the tech bust," said Lynn Anderson, a vice-president with Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd. of Mississauga. "A lot of spending was ratcheted back."