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Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment After HMRC's data loss, the government instructed all departments to encrypt laptops and has issued new guidance developed by the Communications Electronics Security Group on the standards to be applied. [27 Mar 2008]
Can the government offshore with confidence?
Comment While the emergence of a single common policy for the public sector is highly unlikely, it is essential that the Office for Government Commerce develops a set of guidelines for departments and agencies. [14 Feb 2008]
Leader: It's time for a data breach disclosure law
Leader The Prime Minister's decision to allow the Information Commissioner to make spot checks on data storage and security at government departments is welcome but it's too little too late. The original California law - known as SB 1386 - obliges... [22 Nov 2007]
Tech Visions: TV extends its reach
Comment We've got government agencies using it for things I won't go into. We've had fire departments starting to use Slingboxes so that when they are out fighting fires they can use a cell phone or laptop to view what helicopter cameras from the local... [24 Oct 2007]
Web 2.0 and the public sector
Comment As we have seen with e-government services, public sector agencies will increasingly need to consider the balance between different channels of communication. In the US, the intelligence community has created Intellipedia, a wiki that allows for... [11 Oct 2007]
The McCue Interview: DWP CIO Joe Harley
Comment CIO jobs don't come much more challenging than at one of Whitehall's biggest central government departments, where staff refer to the work carried out by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as "the daily miracle". [27 Jul 2006]
The McCue Interview: Criminal Justice IT director-general John Suffolk
Comment It is hard to truly reflect the scale of the job of joining up and modernising the UK's criminal justice IT systems and the myriad agencies and departments involved but Suffolk has to deal with four different ministers, the Home Secretary, the... [06 Mar 2006]
Leader: Linux in government - better late than never
Leader Increasingly it has been aggregating demand across the public sector into mega-deals that get government agencies better value than their own bargaining power could have achieved. IT departments in the private sector are also rarely big enough to... [02 Mar 2006]
Leader: ID cards victory for silicon.com campaign
Leader The LSE came up with extremely detailed cost estimates of the ID card scheme totalling £19bn and rising to £30bn if the cost of integrating all the public sector departments and agencies that would have to use the system was taken into account. [17 Jan 2006]
Radioactive: Mobile email - get it right
Comment Billions of pounds have been spent on bespoke systems in countless councils, quangos and support agencies up and down the land. A survey carried out by Clearswift earlier this year, found that 40 per cent of UK workers spend an hour or more every... [21 Dec 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Public sector goes mobile
Comment Some organisations are fairly monolithic, particularly central government departments but others, particularly in local government, consist of very different services and applications. Initiatives such as 'Every Child Matters' imply closer working... [09 Sep 2005]
Virus writers shouldn't get off so easy
Comment Better deterrence is especially important because the FBI and other police agencies have such a poor record of identifying the virus and worm writers that infest the internet's underbelly. Computer worms and viruses cost us millions in lost... [18 Aug 2004]
CRM - citizen relationship management?
Comment But Siebel and co are clearly focused on signing up national customers, from quangos and government agencies to entire departments. Most government departments in the UK will have similar requirements for their benefits systems, and countries... [20 Nov 2001]
ATSCO gets tough on recruitment regulation proposals
Comment Tony Blair has spoken at length about developing 'joined up' government where objectives are achieved with co-operation between departments. Agencies promote market efficiency through matching highly specialised skills with end users that need them. [02 Oct 2000]
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