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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Increases Collaboration and Streamlines Administration with Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Services
White Paper The Commonwealth saved $9.2 million over the three years of implementation and lowered the total cost of ownership for e-mail and collaboration by $9 million. Pennsylvania had 40,000 unique desktops in 47 agencies with over 100 domains and many... [10 Apr 2008]
State Attorney General's Office Uses New Technology to Improve Constituent Service
White Paper The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General manages a broad range of law and public safety responsibilities, including conducting criminal investigations and prosecutions, handling civil litigation on behalf of Commonwealth agencies, and... [08 Feb 2008]
Commonwealth of Kentucky Sets Out to Create a Statewide e-Health System
White Paper With the help of Microsoft technology, the many health-related government agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky are creating a statewide e-Health network that will provide caregivers secure access to more complete medical information and reduce... [18 Dec 2007]
Web 2.0 and the public sector
Comment More ambitiously, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office has recently launched a series of blogs, including one by foreign secretary David Miliband and another by a new graduate recruit to the department. As we have seen with e-government services... [11 Oct 2007]
Massachusetts opts for open docs 'third way'
News The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is to adopt both OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's rival Office Open XML document format. In a letter posted by the US state's IT division, Henry Dormitzer, undersecretary of administration and finance, and... [03 Aug 2007]
Massachusetts moots opening door to Microsoft
News Tom Robertson, Microsoft's general manager of interoperability and standards, said: "We support the Commonwealth's proposal to add Ecma Office Open XML File Formats to the list of approved standards, as this would give users the ability to choose... [03 Jul 2007]
ID cards to cost more than £5.5bn
News And the £510m costs incurred by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in running consular services abroad was excluded, as it does not form part of the expenditure of the National Identity Scheme, the report said. [10 May 2007]
Biggest spenders on IT in government revealed
News Foreign & Commonwealth Office - £101m But not all agencies are spending giant sums - for example the Department for Culture, Media and Sport spends a mere £5m, as does the Treasury. The government spends more that £12bn per year on IT, with the NHS... [10 Jan 2007]
Massachusetts appoints new CIO
News Gutierrez is currently the chief technology strategist at the Commonwealth Medicine Division of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The latest version of the state IT division's policy calls for all documents created by state executive... [01 Feb 2006]
Massachusetts appoints stop-gap CIO
News Fehrnstrom said the state remains on schedule for an implementation of OpenDocument-based desktop software in executive branch agencies: "There have been no changes in the commonwealth's published OpenDocument rules and we are still on track for a... [09 Jan 2006]
Massachusetts officials scrutinise decision to go open
News Marc Pacheco, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Post Audit and Oversight, on Monday held a hearing to probe into the process that led to a mandate to make OpenDocument the standard document format for all commonwealth agencies in the... [02 Nov 2005]
Opinion: Corporate IT - you can help fight cyber crime
Comment Mark Kobayashi-Hillary is the technology research director of the Commonwealth Business Council and author of 'Outsourcing to India: The Offshore Advantage' (Springer 2004, 2005), 'Beyond BPO: Outsourcing and the Global Services Revolution' (BCS... [03 Oct 2005]
Massachusetts finalises its Microsoft snub
News The commonwealth of Massachusetts has finalised its decision to standardise desktop applications on OpenDocument, a format not supported by Microsoft Office. Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of standards, said in an email on Friday: "The... [26 Sep 2005]
The Pennsylavnia Justice Network
White Paper JNET is a collaborative effort of municipal, county, state, bordering states and federal justice agencies to build a secure integrated justice system. JNET represents an unprecedented leap forward in information sharing and cooperation among local... [30 Aug 2005]
Offshore Outsourcing of Kentucky State Government Services: Direct Contracting Is Limited But the Amount of Subcontracting Is Unknown
White Paper Outsourcing is the process through which organizations, including private firms and government agencies, contract with third parties to provide specialized services. Offshore outsourcing is the practice of contracting for services with an... [23 Aug 2005]
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