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RSS government agendaUnderstanding Data Location Is Imperative for Data Loss Prevention
White Paper DLP is now the main focus of many information security conferences and a topic high on the board room agenda. The federal government and over 35 states have enacted legislation to address these critical... [12 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News In a recent silicon.com survey, more than a quarter of respondents admitted green IT was off the agenda because of the recession. In some cases government policies are already giving businesses a shove... [29 Oct 2009]
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News The agenda for the week was set by the results from the 2009 Business Pulse - the UK's largest survey of smaller enterprises this year, which revealed that 75 per cent of small businesses believe the economy will see... [20 Oct 2009]
Lord Stephen Carter
AS Profile One Agenda Setters judge described Carter as "the figurehead for the call for ubiquitous broadband across Britain". Lord Stephen Carter made his mark in his former guise as UK Minister for Communications, Technology and... [08 Oct 2009]
Dr Robert Atkinson
AS Profile It's the first time the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (Itif) has made it into the Agenda Setters list. Panellists hailed Atkinson and the Itif for arguing the case for the... [01 Oct 2009]
Tim Berners-Lee
AS Profile While last year's Agenda Setters' winner might have slipped to number eight this year, if anything he is playing an even greater role in the world of technology in 2009. The inventor of the world wide web (way back in... [30 Sep 2009]
Stephen Fry
AS Profile However, the technology perhaps most closely associated with this Agenda Setter is Twitter - his account has more than 700,000 followers - and he remains the best known British user of the service. Fry gets his place on... [30 Sep 2009]
Martha Lane Fox
AS Profile Martha Lane Fox earned her place in the Agenda Setters list as a result of her appointment by the government as an expert to help bridge the digital divide in the UK. As the champion for digital... [30 Sep 2009]
Karen Price
AS Profile The Agenda Setters judges were impressed with Price's success in driving IT up the education agenda and in collaborating with business to bring the private sector into the skills debate. Her role is... [29 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain and financial secretary to the Treasury, said the government is committed to making its £6 per year tax on landlines law to pay for rolling out next-gen broadband in the UK. [23 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up Go on - embrace digital inclusion and the political agenda in less than 140 characters. Why shouldn't government departments and agencies use as many channels as possible to engage with the populace? The... [31 Jul 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News The need to cut IT costs is already high on the government's agenda following the recent Operational Efficiency Programme report which heralded a drive for £7.2bn-per-year savings through greater use of... [29 Jun 2009]
Tube mobile coverage in time for 2012 Olympics?
News Communications minister Lord Carter has put the idea of mobile coverage on the London Underground back on the government agenda - only months after it emerged a planned Tube mobile trial had been shelved... [17 Jun 2009]
'Digital Britain snubbing UK businesses'
News The final report, due out this week, will set the government's digital agenda for the coming years, tackling subjects including broadband, spectrum distribution and online content. The... [15 Jun 2009]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile He is the public face of UK government IT and leads the work of the CIO Council to deliver the IT strategy behind the Transformational Government agenda. Government CIO... [03 Jun 2009]
