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Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News To help with the diet, 110 green ICT action plans have been submitted from within central and local government as well as the wider public sector since the government published its... [13 Nov 2009]
Introduction to Validation for Federated PKI
White Paper For government and industry, this brings the challenge of establishing trusted identities for large populations that are certified by many different trust domains. Both commercial enterprises and... [02 Oct 2009]
Zentrale Informatikdienste Basel (ZID) Completes Big Bang Document Management Migration for 3,700 Users
White Paper Under contract to the government, ZID is responsible for providing IT services for all of the public offices and departments in the canton. Zentrale Informatikdienste Basel (ZID) is the central IT... [01 Oct 2009]
Victoria University of Wellington Cuts Costs, Minimizes Downtime With Active Support
White Paper The institution also wanted to establish a robust financial management system to meet the growing reporting demands of the government-funded tertiary sector. One of the University's main goals was to provide staff with... [01 Oct 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News According to an announcement by the Cabinet Office this week, the government has cut the carbon footprint of central government computers by 12,000 tonnes and saved at least £7m over the... [16 Sep 2009]
Photos: WWII codebreakers return to Bletchley Park
Photo The reunion event coincided with an exhibition of more than 70 vintage cipher machines at Bletchley, which have been gathered from museums, private and government collections around the world. Colossus was the first... [07 Sep 2009]
Banco de Mexico Updates Information in a Single Database and Accelerates Payroll Processes
White Paper Banco de Mexico is the Mexican government's central bank, constitutionally autonomous in its function and administration. Its mission is to provide the country's national currency while maintaining its... [01 Sep 2009]
Future of the NHS: Medical records online could transform healthcare
News Ian Herbert, vice chairman of the health informatics advisory panel for the British Computer Society and former consultant on the government's £12.7bn IT revamp, said: "Patient involvement is essential if we are going to... [21 Aug 2009]
Let's shine a light into the public sector IT money pit
Comment With such systemic failures of project management at the heart of local and central government, is it any wonder that IT projects are so frequently haemorrhaging money? Government spends... [17 Aug 2009]
Green shoots? What green shoots? No let up in IT spending freeze
News The research also forecasts an increase in government IT outsourcing and even offshoring in 2009, echoing recent indications from Whitehall insiders that central government may be... [11 Aug 2009]
100 dodgy football ticket sellers shut down by cybercops
News The government's newly-created Police Central e-crime Unit has announced a new assault on dodgy online ticket sellers. The unit announced on Friday that it had shut down over 100 websites suspected of... [10 Aug 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... [03 Aug 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo However critics of the scheme claim that legislation under the Identity Cards Act 2006 will allow the government to collect personal details for ID cards by the back door. Part of the act allows the... [30 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet Needless to say, the government aren't coughing. There are a number of other bodies that are charged with tackling cybercrime of different sorts: for example, the government's mooted Office of Cyber... [20 Jul 2009]
Soca's cybercrime cops score 21 convictions
News The UK's cybercrime unit has helped achieve more than 20 criminal convictions since its creation three years ago, government figures have revealed. Soca is joined in the fight against internet crime by the Police... [15 Jul 2009]
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