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Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive... [23 Oct 2009]
John Suffolk
AS Profile Suffolk and the CIO Council are working to strip the complexity and cost out of government IT through the use of shared services and common data formats in government. As the man with the burden of... [30 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News In February the CIO Council published a policy designed to stimulate the uptake of open source across the public sector. The benefits of open source software are clear to Jeremy Tuck,... [29 Sep 2009]
Apple's Snow Leopard won't make us move to Macs, say CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's... [21 Sep 2009]
IT graduates failing to make the business grade, say UK tech chiefs
News Chris Ford, IT director, Nottingham City Council Rob Neil, head of ICT and customer services, Ashford Borough Council IT graduates are leaving UK universities without the business and technical... [02 Sep 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Jos Creese, who sits on the government's CIO Council - a group of CIOs from across central and local government that discuss IT issues affecting the public sector - told silicon.com there are plans to... [03 Aug 2009]
Heat wave? No sweat for CIOs
News Chris Ford, IT Director, Nottingham City Council If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's... [03 Jul 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
News The comments come ahead of a report into how much public sector work should be offshored, which cross-government group the Strategic Supply Board will present to the CIO Council at the end of next month. [24 Jun 2009]
Photos: The UK's top CIOs
Photo Glyn Evans, corporate director of business change at Birmingham City Council, features on this year's list. Here, silicon.com reporter Nick Heath, left, talks to Volkswagen CIO, Nick Gaines - one of this... [19 Jun 2009]
G-Cloud in the sky: The future home for gov't apps
News The CIO Council and UK IT trade association Intellect are currently developing a business case for funding the G-Cloud. Julian David, vice chair of the Intellect Public Sector Council,... [17 Jun 2009]
Signing off a gov't IT contract? Don't move a muscle
News The Digital Britain Report therefore recommends that the CIO Council agree a small number of potential areas for tender, and ensure the availability of a simplified, fast-track process (consistent with... [16 Jun 2009]
iPhone has no place in business say CIOs
News However, he added that there could also be issues around the perception of the device: "Whilst it is undoubtedly a fine email and mobile internet client, with useful GPS apps, I can just see the headlines saying 'council... [16 Jun 2009]
Skydiving and kendo: What CIOs do when they aren't at work…
News Many of course are also involved with industry associations such as the British Computer Society, Socitm and the government CIO council - as well as silicon.com's very own CIO Jury, of... [10 Jun 2009]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile He is also a member of the government's CIO Council. Tony Mather is CIO of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, signing up for civil service in March 2007 after being hired in from the... [03 Jun 2009]
Toby Redshaw
CIO Profile In the past, he has chaired the Innovation Network at the Kellogg Graduate School of Business as well as ebusiness standards group, the RosettaNet Council. Redshaw's early career was spent at FedEx - where he was... [03 Jun 2009]
