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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]
Wi-fi CCTV in parking tickets drive
News Westminster City Council is busy installing networked security cameras that can recognise parking permits and the number plates of offending vehicles. Parking enforcement is the killer application that everyone is looking for," said Vic Baylis... [11 Sep 2007]
Learn to love the web, councils chiefs told
News Other successes highlighted by the report include online ordering of recycling bins in South Oxfordshire and pay-by-phone parking in Westminster. Leicester City Council began to focus on online recruitment after discovering more people viewed its... [01 Jun 2007]
CityWest Homes Housing Officers Use Secure Mobile E-mail to Improve Efficiency
White Paper CityWest Homes (CWH) manages over 22,000 properties for Westminster City Council, through its 6 providers and 14 tenant management organisations. When the system is rolled out to as many as 120 housing officers across Westminster, it will allow... [16 Apr 2007]
Wireless Westminster revs up
News Starting with a square mile across Soho and the West End, the entire City of Westminster will be connected by the end of 2008, a spokesperson for Westminster Council said. The City of Westminster includes Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and the... [29 Nov 2006]
Clueless about print costs? You're not alone
News Simon Norbury, head of ICT at Westminster City Council, said companies have to understand the full cost of ownership where printing is concerned, adding he is currently addressing such issues within his own function. [24 Nov 2006]
Web-phobic councils need to wake up
News But Simon Norbury, head if ICT at Westminster City Council, warned of problems when using email. In June Westminster Council launched online parking permit renewals - a scheme which has since been taken up by 30 per cent of residents. [22 Sep 2006]
CIO Jury: Businesses face ID management headache
News Simon Norbury, head of ICT, Westminster City Council A "radically new approach" to identity management is needed to address increasingly complex corporate network ID and access headaches, according to leading IT chiefs. [21 Sep 2006]
Pay-by-text parking comes to York
News Westminster is also planning on trialling it from next month. City of York council has signed up mobile operator O2 and parking payment company Verrus to let drivers pay for their parking via a mobile call or SMS. [05 Sep 2006]
CIO Jury: Software licensing 'too complex'
News Simon Norbury, head of ICT at Westminster City Council, said: "I defy any medium-sized ICT organisation not to be in default with Microsoft. Simon Norbury, head of ICT, Westminster City Council Chris Robinson, CIO at Staffordshire County Council... [16 Jun 2006]
BT kick-starts wireless cities project
News The cities taking part so far are Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool and Westminster. Cardiff and Westminster represent extensions of the scheme, as smaller wi-fi networks already exist in both places. [18 May 2006]
The death of the IT department - and how you can survive it
News But Simon Norbury, director ICT, Westminster City Council, warned that not all CIOs will be up to the task. Speaking at the Government UK IT Summit, Glyn Evans, director of business solutions and IT at Birmingham City Council warned: "Unless IT... [11 May 2006]
What future for the wireless Square Mile?
News Westminster City Council is already working on a similar project, using wi-fi to connect up CCTV cameras and provide access to workers including health inspectors. The City of London has taken the wraps off an ambitious project that will see the... [07 Mar 2006]
Outsourcing row breaks out at Westminster City Council
News Westminster City Council has denied it is forcing almost 200 call centre staff to relocate to Scotland or face redundancy as part of its 10-year £422m business process outsourcing deal with Vertex. But Westminster City Council has denied it is... [22 Feb 2006]
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