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Video app the highway to healthy roads

News Hampshire County Council is trialling an extension to its road management systems with an asset-counting application based on video capture. The council is piloting the Yotta DCL MARCHpms pavement management system to process video data on its road...

Tags: video, road, hampshire

[12 May 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 09.05.08

Round-Up The technology has apparently already saved Harrow council, one of the first local authorities to trial the technology last May, more than £330,000 by exposing about 43 people on the wrong benefits. Benefit fraudsters beware.

Tags: yahoo, microsoft, governement

[09 May 2008]

Managed File Transfer and the PCI Data Security Standards

whitepaper Standard Networks is a Participating Organization of the PCI Security Standards Council and has written this document to help companies understand how the standards apply to file transfer products in general, and how MOVEit secure Managed File...

Tags: security standards

[09 May 2008]

Bournemouth to be UK's first Fibrecity

News Bournemouth Borough Council is no stranger to a high fibre diet - H2O laid sewer fibre as a back-up network for the council last year. The race to become the UK's first 'Fibrecity' has been won by the seaside resort of Bournemouth, better known for...

Tags: h2o, fibre, bournemouth

[08 May 2008]

Lie detectors to hunt out benefit cheats

News In Harrow, one of the first councils to trial the technology from May last year, it has already helped the council save more than £330,000 by exposing about 43 people on the wrong benefits. A lie detector test that has slashed benefit fraud by more...

Tags: dwp, benefits, lie detector

[07 May 2008]

Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard

whitepaper This paper describes the 12 Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) requirements. These PCI DSS requirements are organized in 6 logically related groups, which are "Control objectives.

Tags: security standards

[07 May 2008]

CIOs are driving the green agenda

News Meads added: "Certainly I'm seeing equally the number of CIOs that I'm meeting are the green ambassador or at least sitting on a green council because it's recognised they have a role to play. CIOs are increasingly becoming "green ambassadors...

Tags: cisco, green, cios

[01 May 2008]

Geographic database opens doors to private sector

News The NLPG has been used by public sector organisations - such as the police, fire service and county council - for the past four years but is now available for private sector groups to subscribe to. A national geographical electronic database is now...

Tags: local authorities, database

[30 Apr 2008]

New president takes the reins at Socitm

News Newham Borough Council's CIO was confirmed in the role at the society's AGM held at the British Library. Steel has been at Newham Council since 1989 and previously worked for Morgan Grenfell (now Deutsche Bank).

Tags: cio, newham, local government, richard steel

[29 Apr 2008]

Hacking 'goodies' get industry body

News The aim of the council is to standardise ethical penetration testing and provide professional qualifications for the testers. The Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (Crest) made its public debut this week at the Infosecurity Europe...

Tags: body, industry, hacking

[25 Apr 2008]

Croydon inks £83m deal with Capgemini

News Croydon Council has signed an extension to its IT outsourcing deal with Capgemini, worth an estimated £83m over five years. The new deal runs until 2013 and covers all the council's IT and telecoms infrastructure and networks, 4,000 desktop PCs and...

Tags: outsourcing, capgemini, croydon

[23 Apr 2008]

Profits reports equal big week for Microsoft/Yahoo!?

News He said in a speech before the Atlantic Council: "I certainly can't afford to bid against Microsoft [for Yahoo]. In the latest in the Microsoft/Yahoo! takeover bid, the software maker has set a Saturday deadline for Yahoo!

Tags: microsoft, aol, time warner, yahoo

[22 Apr 2008]

WEEE takes council computers to Africa

News Brent Council in London has hit on a way to comply with the European WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) directive for the responsible disposal of computer hardware, while also helping parts of the world in need of a tech boost.

Tags: weee, africa, computer aid, council

[21 Apr 2008]

St Albans council signs £2.5m desktop contract

News St Albans District Council has signed a £2.5m, seven-year contract for desktop support with Northgate Information Solutions.silicon.com Public Sector The contract is part of a move for the council, which serves more than 130,000 citizens, to adopt...

Tags: desktop, northgate, council

[17 Apr 2008]

Southampton City Council Streamlines Procurement Process and Meets Service Level Agreements With Infra Software

whitepaper Southampton City Council has more than 9000 staff providing services to the community of the City and its district. More recently, the Council has implemented a change management system from Infra. The council now has 130 users of Infra - 50 at any...

Tags: service level management, management solution, city, delivery

[10 Apr 2008]

Efficient File Management Helps Perth and Kinross Council Deliver Services Proactively

whitepaper The Information Systems and Technology group of the Perth and Kinross Council increased the productivity of both end users and the members of the IT staff by replacing a legacy Novell-based client-server network with new servers running Microsoft...

Tags: directory services, end users, file, council

[10 Apr 2008]

Buckinghamshire County Council

whitepaper For Buckinghamshire County Council, the challenge was to build a resilient hardware platform powerful enough to support this new set of ERP applications. The planned software deployment would extend to 13,000 employees, enabling the Council to form...

Tags: back-up, council, emc, mission

[10 Apr 2008]

Cairns City Council

whitepaper 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...

Tags: linux - open source, community, council, rac

[10 Apr 2008]

Luton Borough Council - June 2004

whitepaper Luton Borough Council (LBC) wanted to increase the availability of its services on the Internet and reduce its ongoing IT costs. Since implementing the Dell solution, availability of council services have now increased by 70 percent and the back-up...

Tags: storage management, council, availability, dell

[10 Apr 2008]

Tendering in NSW Health

whitepaper Prior to the state-wide implementation of Electronic Tendering in Health, the NSW Health Peak Purchasing Council [HPPC] as part of its supporting role, assisted Area Health Services in ensuring that the tender process was properly structured and...

Tags: procurement and sourcing, health, documentation, standardised

[10 Apr 2008]

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