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RSS labourUK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News This bungled policy has already proved to be an expensive, embarrassing nightmare for the Labour party," he added. The controversial ID project has hit another delay, with the government missing its own deadline to get... [16 Nov 2009]
Setting Social Security Standards in a Global Society
White Paper Social security is declared as a human right in the major United Nations human rights instruments. However, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, access to any form of social protection remains a dream for 80 per cent of the... [11 Nov 2009]
IBM XIV® Storage System: Ease of Management Reinvented
White Paper The direct labour cost associated with its management is increasing. Managing a storage system has become a costly and complicated task. In addition, organizations incur hidden indirect costs due to slow responsiveness,... [13 Oct 2009]
Tech skills: UK Plc told to get its hands dirty and help students
News They will have paid fees of £3,000 and more for each year of their higher education, and will leave university to face some of the toughest labour market conditions in a generation. Businesses must do more to help boost... [21 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Outsourcing
Cheat Sheet Delivering services from offshore can further drive down costs thanks to cheaper labour and tax rebates abroad, with offshore delivery typically offering savings of 20 per cent on average compared to in-house provision,... [11 Sep 2009]
Arctic Group Plans for the Future With IBM Cognos and EDB Gruppen
White Paper Accurate forward planning is vital - but without proper IT support, planning cycles were labour-intensive and could take up to two and a half months per year. Arctic Group is a trading company based in Denmark, Greenland... [01 Sep 2009]
India outsourcing workers stressed to the limit
Comment Now, that growth is beginning to take its toll on its workers who labour for long hours in stressful work environments to meet tight deadlines for customers thousands of miles away. The outsourcing industry has brought... [25 Aug 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News The Conservative Party has today revealed its plans to reform what it calls Labour's "shambolic" and "costly" plans for healthcare technology in England. Launching the review shadow health minister, Stephen O'Brien, said... [10 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Labour MP Tom Watson, who takes a special interest in matters relating to technology and the internet, told silicon.com offshoring can be beneficial for government if done correctly. After years of resistance to... [03 Aug 2009]
Code red: Cash pleas for struggling home of codebreakers
News However, the MPs local to Bletchley Park - Mark Lancaster, Conservative MP for North East Milton Keynes, and Phyllis Starkey, Labour MP for Milton Keynes South West - had not signed the early day motion at the time of... [24 Jul 2009]
Naked CIO: We need an offshoring tax
Comment I believe the government should set a tax on British corporations which choose to offshore labour and displace UK workers. This tax should be minimal and be driven towards technology education grants and grants... [20 Jul 2009]
'Nasa hacker' case raised in parliament
News Backbencher Kate Hoey was among the Labour MPs who supported a review of the UK-US arrangement, saying it is "not working in terms of natural justice". The Conservative Party has championed the case of Gary McKinnon, the... [16 Jul 2009]
Naked CIO: Speak up for British jobs
Comment The government has done nothing to curb this trend and seemingly looks to encourage it through its own actions of sending labour abroad. Government to offshore more IT jobs? The Naked CIO says it's time to stop this... [14 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News The government has defended itself against fresh calls to drop its troubled ID cards scheme, this time from within the Labour party. In an extensive parliamentary debate yesterday, Labour MP Andrew... [07 Jul 2009]
NHS records, Google and Microsoft: Where do you want your data?
Comment The Conservatives have come up with a new vision of how to fix the problems plaguing Labour's £12.7bn revamp of NHS IT - put it under the private sector knife. Under the proposals reported in The Times yesterday, the... [07 Jul 2009]
