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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]
Case Study Leeds City Council has saved taxpayers' money and minimised disruption by using an automated software auditing tool to ease a major Microsoft Windows IT upgrade. The mammoth task of migrating the council's staff of more than 12,000 laptop and PC...
[28 Mar 2008]
News Leeds City Council is reported to be interested in testing the technology on its car-pool lanes. A company that has developed a CCTV system which counts people in cars by detecting human skin claims the London Congestion Charge could benefit from...
[26 Feb 2008]
News Peter Ryder, head of ICT, Preston City Council Ted Woodhouse, director of IT strategy, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Corporate IT users have accused technology suppliers of cynically using software licence auditing as a tool to squeeze more...
[12 Jan 2007]
News Since then, the telco has started offering an enterprise-focused version of the service, which is being trialled by Leeds City Council. It's not yet two years since the first FMC (fixed-mobile convergence) product hit the UK.
[09 Jan 2007]
News BT has already announced a consumer version of Fusion as well as a corporate version, which is being trialled by Leeds City Council. BT has taken the wraps off the wi-fi version of its fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) service, Fusion, aimed at SMEs.
[14 Dec 2006]
Photo Among those already trialling digital pens is Leeds City Council, which is rolling out digital paper and pens to 1,300 social care workers in a bid to save £1.2m by 2008. A number of watch manufacturers have decided to include Bluetooth in their...
[20 Nov 2006]
Comment Recently I caught up with Adrian Fegan, head of ICT at Leeds City Council, to talk about fixed-mobile convergence. Jo Best weighs in on the mobile plans for this much-hyped wireless technology. Remember the UMPC - or ultra mobile PC to the...
[20 Nov 2006]
News With 26,000 landlines and more than 7,500 mobiles, Adrian Fegan, head of ICT operations at Leeds City Council, is no stranger to managing a complex telecoms environment. The council is also hoping for more functionality from the handsets in the...
[09 Nov 2006]
News A spokeswoman from Sheffield City Council told silicon.com that to implement fingerprint recognition the council would need access to the police fingerprint database - and claimed this access is not currently possible.
[24 Oct 2006]
News Simon Norbury, head of ICT, Westminster City Council Ted Woodhouse, director of IT strategy at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: "Anyone who looks after identity and access management and is not keeping their strategy for this under...
[21 Sep 2006]
News BT's dual-mode service is currently being trialled with Leeds City Council, with two of its premises getting involved in the project. Adrian Fegan, head of ICT Operations at Leeds City Council, said adopting FMC is a critical part of the council's...
[14 Sep 2006]
News Simon Norbury, head of ICT at Westminster City Council, said: "I defy any medium-sized ICT organisation not to be in default with Microsoft. Simon Norbury, head of ICT, Westminster City Council Chris Robinson, CIO at Staffordshire County Council...
[16 Jun 2006]
News Pricing details aren't yet available but Andrews indicated this would depend on the council and the services involved. The cities taking part so far are Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool and Westminster.
[18 May 2006]
whitepaper Leeds City Council provides a whole range of services for more than 700,000 UK citizens. To provide such access, the Council needed to update its outdated network infrastructure. In addition, the Council sought to improve remote access for its...
[28 Apr 2006]
News Peter Ryder, head of ICT, Preston City Council Although the NHS is known for recruiting doctors and nurses from abroad to fill shortages in the UK, the same does not seem to apply to IT departments in the health service, according to Ted Woodhouse...
[10 Mar 2006]
News People wanting to use the wireless network will then have to pay one of the ISPs for access and revenues will be split between the Cloud, the local council and the ISPs. Residents of Birmingham, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester...
[03 Jan 2006]
News Leeds City Council is rolling out digital paper and pens to 1,300 social care workers in a bid to save £1.2m by 2008, while social workers in Greenwich have been trialing a digital pen and paper system since April.
[03 Nov 2005]
News Leeds City Council is to give 1,300 social care workers digital paper and pens in a bid to save £1.2m by 2008. Mark Harris, Leeds City Council leader, said: "We've been able to identify a significant £1.2m saving in our Social Services operation...
[30 Sep 2005]
News Leeds City Council Ashford Borough Council Islington Council The finalists for the CNET Networks UK Technology Awards, organised by the publisher of silicon.com, have been announced, highlighting some of the most innovative users of IT in the UK as...
[04 Aug 2005]
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