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IT tsar confirmed: Cabinet Office names Angela Smith
News The Cabinet Office has named Angela Smith as responsible for government IT and information security. Cabinet Office names Angela Smith as IT tsar According to the list... [16 Oct 2009]
HM Treasury strikes five-year IT services deal
News Under the deal Fujitsu will deliver shared services as part of the Cabinet Office's Flex framework. The Treasury is the latest government organisation to access the Flex shared services and joins The... [25 Sep 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News The Cabinet Office said these figures only represent a snapshot and not the full extent of the savings derived from greening its IT but could not provide details of any further savings. According to an... [16 Sep 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Recently, senior civil servants in the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Justice both told silicon.com that they are open to offshoring work such as software development. Whitehall already offshores a... [03 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up The guidance note on the government use of Twitter went viral this week after being placed on the Cabinet Office blog. Based on a survey of silicon.com readers, the first application they fire up when... [31 Jul 2009]
Labyrinthine IT systems lose MoD almost £300m
News The MoD's problems are the latest blot on Whitehall's troubled track record when it comes to managing computer systems, ranging from the Department of Health's flawed £12.7bn National Programme for IT to the Cabinet... [21 Jul 2009]
£24.4m written off on government IT project
News The first phase of the project was delivered on time and on budget back in 2007, according to the Cabinet Office's annual report and accounts published yesterday. A spokesman for the... [17 Jul 2009]
IT security training now the 'substantial' task of GCHQ
News In the past, all government IT security training has been the charge of the Cabinet Office, through the office of the Central Sponsor for Information Assurance (CSIA). However, the... [01 Jul 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News The need to cut IT costs is already high on the government's agenda following the recent Operational Efficiency Programme report which heralded a drive for £7.2bn-per-year savings through greater use of shared services and outsourcing,... [29 Jun 2009]
SMEs on target list for UK cyber attack group
News The government has not finalised training budgets, a Cabinet Office spokesperson said. We'll have a formal role in introducing [the strategy], working closely with the Cabinet... [29 Jun 2009]
'Get the raw data out there ASAP': Berners-Lee
News Berners-Lee published the report in his capacity of adviser to the Cabinet Office. World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has published advice as to how more government data can be made available... [26 Jun 2009]
Britain to get official cyber attack dogs
News The Cabinet Office official said the government would try to respond to attacks on UK systems by recourse to the law: "Whenever we can, we will pursue criminals through legal frameworks, but that only... [25 Jun 2009]
Whitehall IT to pack its bags for pastures new?
News According to Alexis Cleveland, director of transformational government for the Cabinet Office, sending some areas of tech work abroad could result in cheaper and better-quality IT services. Any... [24 Jun 2009]
Whitehall: DIY tech to protect against public service knife
News Public service spending will need to fall by £50bn by 2020 according to Alexis Cleveland, director general for transformational government at the Cabinet Office. She added that sites such as the MP... [11 Jun 2009]
Photos: What Brown's reshuffle means for tech
Photo Following a week of political turmoil culminating in a cabinet reshuffle, silicon.com takes a look at the changes wrought in the top tiers of government and how they might impact on the technology industry. [10 Jun 2009]
