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RSS local councilShared Services: The Practicalities of Local Council Cost Reduction
White Paper Local government in the UK has been undergoing modernisation initiatives centred on IT. Substantial investments have been made in digitising the way that local government delivers public services,... [16 Nov 2009]
'Don't just outsource the problem when you outsource IT'
News Local council IT departments' tendency to outsource problematic tech functions means their outsourcing projects are rarely successful, according to a new report. Rather than outsourcing all IT to a... [10 Nov 2009]
John Suffolk
AS Profile Suffolk and the CIO Council are working to strip the complexity and cost out of government IT through the use of shared services and common data formats in government. Suffolk became even more accessible to the public... [30 Sep 2009]
Greven City Council Modernizes Administration and Improves Performance by Up to 70%
White Paper Greven City Council operates six servers simultaneously to meet the database needs of approximately 70 different specialist processes within the city's local administration. Greven City... [28 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News Jos Creese, who sits on the government's CIO Council - a group of CIOs from across central and local government that discuss IT issues affecting the public sector - told silicon.com there are plans to... [03 Aug 2009]
Code red: Cash pleas for struggling home of codebreakers
News Capital expenditure over the next five years has been covered by funds of £1m donated by a combination of English Heritage, Milton Keynes Council, and the not-for-profit arm of environmental organisation Wren. [24 Jul 2009]
Next stop HMRC: How TfL CIO will shake up the taxman
Comment Pavitt added that if a pilot of a system allowing travellers in the London Borough of Newham to access real-time travel information as well as access local council service information from their mobile... [26 Jun 2009]
G-Cloud in the sky: The future home for gov't apps
News The CIO Council and UK IT trade association Intellect are currently developing a business case for funding the G-Cloud. Julian David, vice chair of the Intellect Public Sector Council, said: "It's based... [17 Jun 2009]
Steve Palmer
CIO Profile In addition Palmer is overseeing the Hillingdon Improvement Programme, which is aimed at shifting the council away from modernisation to a more fundamental transformation approach. Palmer has spent 20 years in senior... [03 Jun 2009]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile Twice featured in the CIO50, Steel is also helping his council meet the challenge of regenerating the London borough in the run up to the 2012 Olympic Games. A key figure in local government IT, as well... [03 Jun 2009]
Kay Brown
CIO Profile She has also been a member of the Scottish Socitm committee for 10 years, as well as the British Computer Society and CITP and represents Scotland on the Local Government CIO Council. As head of IT for... [03 Jun 2009]
Joe Harley
CIO Profile He also sits on the UK government's CIO Council. He has also worked for Britoil, IBM, Unisys and local government. Joe Harley, IT director general and CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions, is... [03 Jun 2009]
Jos Creese
CIO Profile Creese is also vice president of Socitm and chair of the Local Government CIO Council. Jos Creese became Hampshire County Council's head of IT in 2002, nearly 20 years after first... [02 Jun 2009]
David Tidey
CIO Profile Tidey graduated from the University of Exeter in physics and chemistry in 1982 from where he went to work for Greater London Council as a management trainee. A member of the local government technology... [01 Jun 2009]
Glyn Evans
CIO Profile With 27 years' experience of local authority IT support under his belt, Evans chairs Socitm Futures and is a member of the CIO Council and the Local Government Delivery... [01 Jun 2009]
