central government
Hackney Council in £1.9m IT overhaul
News Hackney Council is set to overhaul the entire IT operation supporting its housing department in a £1.9m deal with local government software specialist Civica. The contact centre will allow agents to identify callers and call down residents' data... [15 Aug 2008]
Indian outsourcing giant builds £154m site
News The state government has worked at enhancing infrastructure facilities at Hyderabad to make it a premier IT destination globally. The campus at Pocharam in the central Indian city will be spread over 447 acres and be developed over 10 years in... [11 Aug 2008]
Case Study: Clackamas County Oregon's Outdated Fibre Channel Infrastructure Runs Out of Capacity
White Paper Learn how one county government in the state of Oregon solved the problem of an aging Fibre Channel SAN that could not scale to meet growing needs. This case study discusses how Clackamas County's IT Department replaced an old Fibre Channel SAN... [07 Aug 2008]
Welsh Assembly signs e-procurement contract
News Two hundred buyers for the government have been trained to procure goods and services online for central and local government, the NHS, emergency services and Higher and Further Education within Wales. [06 Aug 2008]
Flexible working: Gov't 'must do better'
News The number of civil service staff able to log into central government systems remotely stands at approximately 48,215 - just over 14 per cent of the 337,037 civil servants across the main central Whitehall departments and their associated agencies. [30 Jul 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News The Cabinet Office's Greening Government ICT report states energy consumption on the government estate has not been falling as much as expected, and IT is identified as a "certain contributor" - being responsible for around a fifth (20 per cent... [17 Jul 2008]
Distributed Intrusion Detection for Computer Systems Using Communicating Agents
White Paper Almost all government agencies, businesses, schools, and most homes use the Internet, and many of their service providers use the Windows NT operating system, which has known vulnerabilities. Most commercially available intrusion detection systems... [10 Jul 2008]
Are banks going soft on e-crime?
News In its follow up report, the committee also urges the government to make it easier for victims of electronic fraud to get compensation, put funding in place for a central e-crime policing unit and create a data security breach notification law to... [08 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News Smith also told silicon.com the ICO was about to be given the power to carry out data security spot checks on central government. Full Disclosure campaign silicon.com is aiming to make businesses and government take data security more seriously. [03 Jul 2008]
Jupitermedia Case Study: Ohio Shared Information Services
White Paper OSIS, the information services group for the Cincinnati medical networks, services 24 sites throughout the Cincinnati area that provide healthcare services in conjunction with government and private providers. [03 Jul 2008]
Government Computing: The Cryptography Key
White Paper Cryptography has been central to the evolution of the modern computer. This paper gives an introduction to developments relevant to the public sector. Encryption protects data in three critical ways: it ensures its integrity, its authenticity and... [03 Jul 2008]
Building Foundations for e-Government
White Paper The use of the Internet and ecommerce by local and central government is likely to increase sharply. The Government has recently re-stated its goals for e-government and e-commerce. They include ensuring systems are 'facing outwards', and by 2005... [03 Jul 2008]
Exploration and Exploitation: Knowledge Sharing in Digital Government Projects
White Paper Although knowledge sharing processes are a central feature of the functioning of government, they have received little attention in the literature. This paper examines knowledge sharing processes in digital government projects (DGPs). [03 Jul 2008]
Information Sharing on Networks
White Paper Those terrible events have been a catalyst to accelerate the military's transformation into lean, fast moving war fighting organizations and have resulted in the first federal mandate for the nationwide sharing of intelligence information among... [03 Jul 2008]
Welfare Reform and Housing
White Paper Despite the impact housing can have on the lives of low-income families, government housing programs are often overlooked as a work support for low-income families. This paper examines how the federal government intervenes in housing markets and... [03 Jul 2008]
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