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Images: Putting next-gen Broadband Britain on the map
Photo Meanwhile, up in North Wales, a Welsh Assembly backed fibre project is working to hook up business parks with speeds of up to 1Gbps along a 200-mile stretch from Holyhead to Wrexham. Wales: The... [27 Jan 2009]
Photos: Future safety tech on display
Photo Pulse was on show this week at EADS' Innovation Works at Newport in South Wales, which was formally opened by Welsh Assembly First Minister Rhodri Morgan yesterday.silicon.com went along for a look. This... [15 Jan 2009]
North Wales fires up high speed fibre network
News A total of £30m of investment has been put up by the Welsh Assembly Government, European Regional Development Funds and fibre network company Geo Networks. The Assembly Government... [27 Nov 2008]
Wales steers clear of Vista
News The Welsh Assembly will not upgrade its computers to Windows Vista for at least three years. The Welsh governing body is three-quarters of the way through an upgrade to Windows XP that... [01 Oct 2008]
Welsh Assembly signs e-procurement contract
News The Welsh Assembly has signed a contract for a procurement tendering web portal that is expected to help it save £200m over five years. In a statement, Welsh Assembly... [06 Aug 2008]
Council offers election results by text
News In the elections, 129 Scottish Parliament seats, 32 Scottish unitary councils, all 60 seats of the Welsh Assembly and 312 local authorities in England are being contested. South Oxfordshire District... [03 May 2007]
Welsh council embraces open source
News We're having conversations with the Scottish parliament and the Welsh Assembly at the moment. A Welsh county council has brokered a deal to provide open source email to up to 40,000... [05 Sep 2006]
More cash for road-pricing satellites
News The government is supporting a bid - backed by the Welsh Assembly Government - for Cardiff to host the Galileo Supervisory Authority. The government is spending another €31m on the European Space... [25 Aug 2006]
Welsh NHS to save £6m with new Microsoft deal
News The deal is being funded by the Welsh Assembly Government and managed by Welsh NHS IT body Informing Healthcare. Welsh NHS Trusts have signed a joint software licensing... [01 Feb 2006]
Wales beats Bangalore for new LogicaCMG service centre
News Kevin Radley, UK finance director at LogicaCMG, told silicon.com the company had considered other UK sites and cheaper offshore options before deciding to go with Bridgend in Wales, partly because of the financial grants from the... [21 Mar 2005]
Siemens wins £200m Welsh government IT deal
News The 10-year deal will cover IT services that support the administrative work of the Welsh Assembly as well as upgrading the support services for the democratic structures of the... [16 Jan 2004]
£50m Welsh farm payments delayed by IT
News Subsidies vital to Welsh farmers worth £50m were delayed in the last year because of "wide-ranging" problems with a new Welsh Assembly IT system, according to a report by the National... [21 Nov 2003]
BT outsourcing move brings strike threats
News In a statement, the CWU said it is seeking to have the issue raised in the house of Commons, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh assembly. Telecoms giant BT has given the go-ahead to its plans to... [07 Mar 2003]
Re:Viewing 2002 - A year in broadband (Part 2)
News While the UK government was feigning deafness whenever the word subsidy was used, on 12 July the Welsh Assembly announced a scheme to promote broadband in the country through £100m of investment to be... [19 Dec 2002]
Broadband: Wales trouncing England at half time
News The rest of the UK has a lot to learn from Wales when it comes to making a success of broadband, according to Andrew Davies, Welsh Assembly minister for economic development and ICT (information and... [03 Dec 2002]
