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Cheat Sheet: Faster Payments Services
Cheat Sheet Direct Corporate Access (DCA) is likely to go live around March 2009, once the stakeholders have completed usability pilots. To sign up for DCA, corporates will need to avail themselves of software from... [22 Sep 2008]
Direct Cache Access for High Bandwidth Network I/O
White Paper This paper proposes a platform-wide method called Direct Cache Access (DCA) to deliver inbound I/O data directly into processor caches. They demonstrate that DCA provides a significant reduction in... [10 Sep 2008]
MADF: Mobile-Assisted Data Forwarding for Wireless Data Networks
White Paper Some traditional schemes such as Dynamic Channel-Allocation scheme (DCA) will assign more channels to hot (or overloaded) cells through a Central Control system (CC), and the throughput increase will be upper bounded by... [10 Aug 2007]
Security breaches hit government databases
News Two of the departments that have been hit by security breaches include the Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) and the Department for Transport (DfT). DCA minister Vera Baird also confirmed an... [31 Oct 2006]
E-voting pilots on the way
News The DCA said the new pilots will build on the experience of those at this year's local elections and make elections more accessible by making it easier to vote. Bridget Prentice, democracy minister at the... [17 Oct 2006]
£500m government IT contracts awarded
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) has replaced its existing IT suppliers with two new contracts worth an estimated £500m as part of plans to create a single, common IT platform across the department. [18 Sep 2006]
ID thieves face porridge threat
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) will first undertake a public consultation on the new sentencing proposals. Responding to the DCA consultation, he said: "These proposals will help by... [25 Jul 2006]
£500m Libra courts IT project fiasco
News A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing yesterday saw Conservative MP Richard Bacon quiz Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) accounting officer Alex Allan about the system's rollout timeline and jump in price,... [22 Jun 2006]
Security fears kill e-voting trials
News The Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) has just announced electoral modernisation pilots to take place at 16 local authorities in the May 2006 local elections. A spokeswoman for the DCA told... [15 Feb 2006]
Courts chase criminals with SMS
News The DCA said because texting was so successful, it may form part of the National Enforcement Service to be tested later this year. Magistrates could soon be sending 'pay up or go to jail' texts to criminals who don't pay... [03 Jan 2006]
E-voting tech trials ditched by government
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) has now taken over lead responsibility for the electoral modernisation programme from the ODPM after a recent government reshuffle. No-one at the DCA was... [02 Sep 2005]
Government pushes for court hearings by phone
News The Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is calling for opinions on proposals for a national scheme where people in civil court hearings could phone in rather than appear in person. The DCA claims... [13 Jul 2005]
Systems overhaul for court IT
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is looking to improve the use of technology at courts with a new IT infrastructure programme. The legacy of the responsibility splits between the contracts can inhibit the... [26 Apr 2005]
MPs criticise Freedom of Information implementation
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is responsible for making sure government bodies are prepared but its role has been heavily criticised in the committee's report, which assessed the readiness of the... [07 Dec 2004]
