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RSS city councilCreating an Efficient, Citizen-Centric, Secure Message Exchange
White Paper Oslo City Council deployed BEA systems for its solution and implemented BEA WebLogic Integration. Oslo wanted to meet the increasing requirements for a secure synchronized message exchange - both internally among Council staff and externally among... [09 Jul 2008]
Gold Coast City Council Raises Benchmark for Best Practice
White Paper Gold Coast City Council (GCCC) is the second largest Local Government Area (LGA) in Australia in terms of population. GCCC needed a business solution that could handle increased business processes, also provide more efficiency and ongoing flexibility. [08 Jul 2008]
Ultra fat pipes to squeeze through Dundee's sewers
News Dundee Council has already used H2O's fibre to link two city centre offices in order to share information quickly, and was keen for it to be the first Scottish Fibrecity, said H2O. Dundee has been selected as the first Scottish 'Fibrecity... [18 Jun 2008]
Dylan Roberts
CIO Profile As head of ICT at Leeds City Council, Dylan Roberts leads 345 IT professionals delivering operational services and IT capital programmes. Prior to joining Leeds City Council, he was head of IT at Denbighshire County Council. [11 Jun 2008]
Vertex bags a £40m Brum Council deal
News Birmingham City Council has extended a contract with Vertex for call centre services in a deal worth £40m. The extension comes immediately after a joint venture between Birmingham City Council and Capita - called Service Birmingham - was contracted... [05 Jun 2008]
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment In the UK, poverty is predominantly an urban issue - so looked at from that perspective the Ofcom state-of-the-broadband-nation report suggests high speed internet access might actually be exacerbating the digital divide - as relatively well-off... [23 May 2008]
Hull City Council Leverages Spatial Assets to Boost Responsiveness and Transform Disaster Management
White Paper Hull City Council wanted to maximize use of location-based asset information for users within council departments and the general public and comply with the "Transformational Government - Enabled by Technology" initiative to build services around... [21 May 2008]
New president takes the reins at Socitm
News Steel replaces head of information services at Belfast City Council, Rose Crozier, as president. Newham Borough Council's CIO was confirmed in the role at the society's AGM held at the British Library. [29 Apr 2008]
Cairns City Council
White Paper By implementing enterprise-class computing technology, Cairns City Council knew it could provide better community support for the 120,000 residents who make use of its facilities and services. The challenge—build a computing infrastructure that... [10 Apr 2008]
Southampton City Council Streamlines Procurement Process and Meets Service Level Agreements With Infra Software
White Paper Southampton City Council has more than 9000 staff providing services to the community of the City and its district. The council now has 130 users of Infra - 50 at any one time - based at 95 different locations across the city. [10 Apr 2008]
Local gov't CIOs to set national agenda
News Members of the Local Government CIO Council include, among others: Peter Bole, head of ICT commissioning at Kent County Council; Richard Steel, CTO Council member and CIO at the London Borough of Newham; Dylan Roberts, head of ICT at Leeds City... [02 Apr 2008]
Leeds completes 'painless' Windows XP upgrade
Case Study Leeds City Council has saved taxpayers' money and minimised disruption by using an automated software auditing tool to ease a major Microsoft Windows IT upgrade. The mammoth task of migrating the council's staff of more than 12,000 laptop and PC... [28 Mar 2008]
The CIO shopping list
Comment CIO Agenda respondent Steve Williams, head of ICT for Sunderland City Council, said: "I suspect that SOA will deliver brilliantly for some organisations but fail the majority. Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value for money from tech... [26 Mar 2008]
Coventry City Council Cuts Overhead by US$414,000 by Migrating 24% of Spend to Online Purchasing
White Paper Coventry City Council provides local government services to 306,000 residents and businesses in the United Kingdom's eleventh largest city. Coventry City Council wanted to streamline and e-enable financial and purchasing processes following a... [24 Mar 2008]
Cork Cuts Pre Go-Live Training Time by 75% and Reduces Learning Costs Throughout Solution Lifecycle
White Paper Cork City Council provides local government services to 123,000 people in Ireland's second largest city. Cork City Council implemented Oracle User Productivity Kit, a complete online solution for kick-starting user training while providing time and... [24 Mar 2008]
