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White Paper To obtain flexibility, data security, and rapid scalability in a data storage solution, Farella deployed Network Appliance storage and began using it as the central repository for data from all key applications, including Microsoft XP Office... [03 Jul 2008]
Call Centre Guidelines - Part 1 of the e-Government Strategy
White Paper There are many possible definitions of Call Centres, that are focused on a technical definition, a service delivery definition, or a number of agents definition. For the purposes of this document the definition is: A facility specifically set up to... [03 Jul 2008]
Fraud-hit tax credits website to remain closed
News MPs also criticised HMRC for ignoring advice and guidelines from the Office of the E-Envoy on setting up a secure government service online. The HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) 'e-portal' was targeted by criminals who stole the identities and personal... [19 Mar 2007]
Former e-Envoy Pinder gets Becta job
News Former e-Envoy Andrew Pinder has been appointed chair of the government agency which oversees the use of IT in schools and colleges. Skills minister Phil Hope said in a statement: "Andrew was the Prime Minister's e-Envoy and has worked in both the... [11 Jan 2006]
Can new strategy stop government IT disasters?
News He said: "If we're brutally honest, transformational government contains a lot of well-intentioned information but is essentially the same plan that has been repackaged over the course of the past six years, since the original conception of the... [17 Nov 2005]
Government and ICT Standards: An Electronic Voting Case Study
White Paper The first section will explore theory in the current literature whilst the second will introduce a case study for analysis, the Election Markup Language standard championed by the UK Government's Office of the e- Envoy. [23 Aug 2005]
Security education: Too little too late
Comment I'll quote the then e-Envoy Andrew Pinder, speaking at a New Statesman-sponsored roundtable exactly two years ago, when I put it to him that with rapid broadband adoption, we were facing a significant problem ahead. [22 Aug 2005]
Ecommerce dropped in ministerial reshuffle
News Dr Jeremy Beale, head of the e-business group at the Confederation of British Industry, said: "It would be nice to have a knowledge economy minister because what we don't have is someone who will drive across government now we don't have the e-Envoy. [12 May 2005]
Opinion: Local government don't get open source
Comment When I set up a similar forum at the Office of the e-Envoy, it cost £40,000 in time, even with free Lotus Notes software and support from IBM. Despite the savings local governments could realise from using open source software, Simon Moores is... [11 May 2005]
The Development of Specifications for eProcurement Messages for Use in the UK Public Sector
White Paper The methodology is based on the Office of the e-Envoy's e-service development framework, using a single UML model. This paper describes the development of the functional specification for messages needed to support e-procurement interoperability... [29 Apr 2005]
Election '05: Digital divide must be addressed
Comment When I worked with the Office of the e-Envoy (OeE) between 2000 and 2002, this fear of not being able to reach parts of the population was a source of real concern to us all. As the general election approaches, Simon Moores underscores just how... [26 Apr 2005]
The McCue Interview: UK Government CIO Ian Watmore
Comment Watmore has moved into the space vacated by the outgoing e-Envoy, Andrew Pinder, at the Cabinet Office's e-Government unit in London. New government CIO Ian Watmore is trying to convince me the media should be writing more about planes landing safely. [16 Feb 2005]
Microsoft appoints UK government 'tsar'
News Fishenden has been with Microsoft since 1997 where he worked closely with the old Office of the e-Envoy at the Cabinet Office and the big Government Gateway online platform project. Microsoft has appointed a government 'tsar' for the UK to help... [21 Jan 2005]
5 years ago: UK e-envoy dubs government IT 'a disaster'
News 17.01.00 UK e-envoy Alex Allan has admitted that the government's IT systems are in chaos. Allan was new to the e-envoy post when this piece was written, and how confusing does it look now to talk about him, the e-government minister and the DTI e... [17 Jan 2005]
Gershon and Pinder take up vendor board positions
News Sir Peter Gershon, ex-chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), and Andrew Pinder, former e-Envoy, have both taken up board positions at software vendors. His replacement, now called the head of e-government, was announced in May... [16 Nov 2004]
