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Kent signs £32m outsourcing deal
News Schools, libraries and council offices in Kent are to be networked in a £32m outsourcing deal. Kent County Council has struck a four-year deal with US outsourcing provider Unisys to provide a shared wide area network built on a high-speed Cisco... [22 Jul 2008]
Local gov't CIOs to set national agenda
News Members of the Local Government CIO Council include, among others: Peter Bole, head of ICT commissioning at Kent County Council; Richard Steel, CTO Council member and CIO at the London Borough of Newham; Dylan Roberts, head of ICT at Leeds City... [02 Apr 2008]
Young targeted by "Revitalise IT" scheme
News Enterprises and academic institutions currently participating in the Revitalise IT initiative include Accenture, Apple, the BBC, Cisco, John Lewis, LogicaCMG, Microsoft and Vodafone, and City University London, Oxford Brookes University... [19 Sep 2007]
How to stop your best tech staff from being poached
News Rob Neil, head of ICT and customer services at Ashford Borough Council, said: "Staff churn is remarkably low, probably thanks to the fact that our terms and conditions are very good - as are the salaries in comparison with local businesses - and... [28 Jun 2007]
Gates and Brown: Tech transforming education
News In the UK Microsoft has been working with local authorities in Kent, Knowsley, Lewisham, Sandwell and Sheffield to integrate technology into educational institutions. Damian Allen, executive director of Children's Services at Knowsley Metropolitan... [31 Jan 2007]
Public sector still shunning flexi-working
News That would appear to be supported by an announcement today from Kent County Council which has rolled out a solution from Scalable Networks to enable greater remote working for staff looking to log on from home. [02 Nov 2005]
Open source nuclear bunker guards finance data
News Somewhere outside a remote village in Kent, we pull up to a gate smothered in barbed wire and CCTV cameras. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary, global research director for Commonwealth Business Council Technologies, says that while the majority of firms have... [25 Oct 2005]
Kent council plans £10m rolling desktop upgrade
News Kent County Council is spending £10m over the next five years on a rolling refresh of its desktops, and replacing its server and storage infrastructure. Kent County Council chief executive Peter Gilroy said in a statement: "The council set itself... [31 Aug 2005]
Linux-shy public sector gets open source test lab
News The NCC is part of the Open Source Academy consortium, which also includes Birmingham City Council, Bristol City Council, Cheshire County Council, Shepway District Council, Socitm and the University of Kent. [20 Jun 2005]
Meet the politicians in charge of government IT
Comment He has also served as director of social services at Kent County Council, and as a senior policy adviser to the Home Secretary. A handful of ministers will be in charge of the UK's technology policy over the life of the next parliament - and will... [13 May 2005]
Opinion: Local government don't get open source
Comment Where I live in Kent, respect for local government is not high, as represented by a reader comment posted on my website: "Anarchy without taxation would be better than the institutional denial of service we currently experience and pay so much for. [11 May 2005]
Kent County Council's IT Investment Projected to Save £10.9 Million Over 5 Years
White Paper Faced with a growing mandate to improve public services, Kent County Council, the largest county council in the U.K.began evaluating ways it could "harvest" information technology to improve public service delivery while controlling costs. [08 May 2005]
Open source 'academy' aims to crack public sector
News Various organisations are involved in the Open Source Academy including Bristol, Cheshire, Birmingham and Shepway Councils, the National Computing Centre, the University of Kent, the Institute of IT Training, OpenForum Europe, the Open Source... [06 Apr 2005]
Will your boss be giving you a home PC?
News Last week, Kent County Council announced a £2m budget which it will use to provide PCs for its 34,000 staff. Drawing upon his own experience, Steel expressed surprise at the size of the budget put aside by Kent Council. [15 Feb 2005]
Council to kit out 34,000 staff with home PCs
News Kent County Council is to spend £2m on a scheme to offer its 34,000 employees with PCs for personal home use. The council said it wants to link the scheme with other relevant strategies such as IT skills development and learning. [08 Feb 2005]
