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White Paper Westminster City Council has a national reputation in the United Kingdom for innovation in delivering services to a diverse community in central London. Its Children's Services Department wanted to... [01 Sep 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo The design for the British cards was unveiled by Home Secretary Alan Johnson at events in London and Manchester today. These details can then be checked against copies of that information held in a... [30 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet The strategy will set out plans to set up a public-private sector taskforce to increase information sharing on cybercrime and see the City of London Police begin offering training on tackling e-fraud to "key business... [20 Jul 2009]
Home Office CIO on taming tech and why ID cards are good news
Comment While it would be foolish to claim any system is 100 per cent secure, Vernon said, she claims that the security of people's personal and biometric details will be protected by the fact that the National Identity Register (NIR) will be... [10 Jul 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News MP Andrew Miller, chairman of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (Pitcom), supported calls for the government to establish the fund, which would be used to loan money to central and local government... [29 Jun 2009]
Four years on, which NHS projects have failed to hit their targets?
News It added that a focus on trying to create a "common solution" between trusts in London and Southern England had led to a "focus on IT at the expense of strong engagement with the customer", in this case, frontline health... [23 Jun 2009]
Tube mobile coverage in time for 2012 Olympics?
News There is a near total mobile coverage blackout over the Central London section of the London Underground, including even large stations," the report notes. Communications minister Lord... [17 Jun 2009]
Ageing probation tech failing to keep tabs on prisoners
News However, it seems that Delius is also experiencing reliability issues: Napo says that its members in London complain of frequent problems with the Delius system crashing and being unavailable for hours at a time. [11 Jun 2009]
Revealed: The UK's top technology executive
News The CIO50 was unveiled at an exclusive reception in central London attended by many of the IT chiefs on this year's list, plus CIOs from previous years' lists and members of the silicon.com CIO... [10 Jun 2009]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile He is passionate about the importance of robust IT infrastructure and while at the helm of Socitm continued its support for the continued rollout of Government Connect, a secure network linking central government and... [03 Jun 2009]
David Wilde
CIO Profile Before David Wilde joined Westminster City Council as CIO, he held a number of public sector roles, including head of ebusiness and head of internal and electronic communications for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and running... [01 Jun 2009]
NHS warned: It's time to beat the breaches
News The information commissioner also censured North West London Hospitals NHS Trust following the theft of two unencrypted laptops and a desktop during a period when Central Middlesex Hospital's security... [26 May 2009]
NHS e-records given six-month deadline
News She said that these trusts would now be able to be able to get central funding to choose new suppliers to provide PAS, from an approved DoH list. A spokesman for BT said the company was "confident" it would be able to... [28 Apr 2009]
iPhone 3.0, Windows 7, robots and the office of the future
Photo Photo credit: Tim Ferguson/silicon.com silicon.com went to check out the Olympic Park facility, the home of the London 2012 Games. Photo credit: The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and... [07 Apr 2009]
BT deal 'has killed risk of NHS IT walkout'
News BTGS has been renegotiating one such deal - its existing £1bn contract to link up and standardise all of the NPfIT computer systems in the London area, which analysts say have become loss making, partly because of the... [06 Apr 2009]
