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RSS city councilCity of Helsinki Enhances Network Security by Ensuring Security Policy Compliance
White Paper The City Council of the City of Helsinki provides a variety of governmental services for the approximately 500,000 inhabitants of Helsinki, Finland. To protect its network from security threats such as malware and intruders, the City of Helsinki... [24 Mar 2008]
Police forces lack e-crime expertise and resources
News Steve Williams, head of ICT, Sunderland City Council Local police forces do not have the resources or expertise to deal with growing cyber crime and online fraud threats facing businesses today. That's the unanimous verdict of UK tech chiefs on... [18 Mar 2008]
New IT Infrastructure and Municipal Portal Enable Integrated, Accessible Public Services
White Paper The local council wanted to improve service delivery, diversify the local economy and guide the community towards a knowledge-based society. Ventspils is a city of 43,000 in northeastern Latvia and boasts one Europe's leading seaports. [06 Mar 2008]
Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction
News The four sites rated as excellent are those belonging to East Sussex County Council, Gloucestershire County Council, Salford City Council and Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council. Janet Callender, CEO of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council said... [04 Mar 2008]
Eliminating Application Conflicts and Enabling Reliable, Centralized IT Service
White Paper Dundee City Council wanted to reorganize itself from a departmental structure into a unified, more customer-responsive entity. Their IT infrastructure was critical to facilitating this transformation. [01 Mar 2008]
Skin-detecting CCTV keeps an eye on motorists
News Leeds City Council is reported to be interested in testing the technology on its car-pool lanes. A company that has developed a CCTV system which counts people in cars by detecting human skin claims the London Congestion Charge could benefit from... [26 Feb 2008]
Glasgow and Serco seal £265m outsourcing deal
News Glasgow City Council is teaming up with Serco in a £265m joint venture outsourcing deal to transform IT and property services in the city. The city council and Serco have formed a private company to run the council's IT and property services in a... [19 Feb 2008]
Recycling kit the way to greener IT?
News Steve Williams, head of ICT, Sunderland City Council Nicholas Bellenberg, IT director for London-based publisher Hachette Filipacchi UK, said: "Southwark council has an IT recycling team that we pay to dispose of kit. [18 Feb 2008]
Newport City Council Simplifies Content Management and Improves Constituent Service
White Paper Newport City Council, the eighth largest authority in Wales, provides a variety of services such as education, leisure, housing, social services, planning, and highways. Newport City Council was keen to maximize the information available to... [09 Feb 2008]
India to train thousands more cyber cops
News Nasscom has also helped set up a cyber crime watchdog, the Data Security Council of India, which is a self-regulatory member organisation. ¦ Boom town Bangalore ¦ Bangalore's Electronics City ¦ SAP and Wipro in Bangalore [06 Feb 2008]
Web services slash CO2 emissions
News Research commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government found the web services of Sunderland City Council save around 80 tonnes in CO2 per year. The research is based on data supplied by Sunderland City Council relating to web... [18 Jan 2008]
Westminster - The Wireless City: Improving Business and Services With WiFi
White Paper The Wireless City project aims to reduce the city's common social problems through the use of Wi-Fi technology, by improving efficiencies with the City Council and providing better services for the community. [08 Jan 2008]
Commercial WiMax on the council?
News ConnectMK's service is not the first commercial WiMax deployment in the UK (that was Urban Wimax's Westminster-based business network) but it does appear to be the first deployment in conjunction with a city council. [19 Dec 2007]
Organisations Adopt Advanced Internet Firewall for Cost-Effective Web Production
White Paper Three U.K.organisations - a city council, a health and fitness club, and an independent teaching organisation - needed enterprise-class firewall protection to filter Web-based content at the application layer. [19 Dec 2007]
Council Improves Project Planning With New Technology
White Paper Birmingham City Council is responsible for delivering a large and complex range of services ranging from Housing, Social Care, and the highway infrastructure through to dealing with abandoned vehicles, to the city's 1 million customers. [03 Dec 2007]
