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RSS local governmentCovert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government
News Local authorities must cut down on using covert-surveillance techniques to investigate petty offences, the government has said. Government has said local councils must... [05 Nov 2009]
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News In some cases government policies are already giving businesses a shove in the right direction. For example, in July 2008, the UK government informed 10,000 businesses that they could be affected by the... [29 Oct 2009]
IT tsar confirmed: Cabinet Office names Angela Smith
News Previously, Smith was parliamentary private secretary to Yvette Cooper at Communities and Local Government and the Treasury. The Cabinet Office has named Angela Smith as responsible for... [16 Oct 2009]
Czech Region Citizen Portal Offers Access to 70 Public Service Online Transactions
White Paper Until three years ago, local government in the Plzen region of the Czech Republic delivered public services by largely paper-based systems, with businesses and citizens making requests for services... [02 Oct 2009]
John Suffolk
AS Profile As the man with the burden of overseeing the annual public sector IT spend of £16bn, the importance of government CIO John Suffolk cannot be overstated. Suffolk and the CIO Council are working to strip the complexity and... [30 Sep 2009]
Tom Steinberg
AS Profile Steinberg still dabbles in the Westminster affairs, recently co-authoring The Power of Information Review, on how the UK government can throw open official data to the public. For silicon.com's panel Steinberg deserves... [30 Sep 2009]
George Osborne
AS Profile Shadow chancellor George Osborne has pledged to scale back major IT projects and end the government's track record of delays and overspend on tech. In February of this year Osborne backed the findings of a... [29 Sep 2009]
Shared 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... [18 Sep 2009]
The City of the Hague Maintains Order in Public Spaces Using Mobile Handhelds
White Paper In 2009, The Netherlands implemented the Fixed Penalty Notices Act, which specifies a new procedure for local government intended to make enforcement related to environmental offenses such as littering... [31 Aug 2009]
The Value of Location Intelligence in the Communications Industry
White Paper The power of location intelligence is helping many local authorities and government departments make more informed decisions and derive greater value from current location-based information and data.... [25 Aug 2009]
Crime in Focus
White Paper Crime mapping has become part of an official UK Government 'pledge'. However, there are a number of key challenges for effective crime mapping, which, if not expertly handled, will lead to the public receiving a... [25 Aug 2009]
Let's shine a light into the public sector IT money pit
Comment With such systemic failures of project management at the heart of local and central government, is it any wonder that IT projects are so frequently haemorrhaging money? Government spends... [17 Aug 2009]
TV White Space Position Paper: Fixed TV White Space Solutions for Wireless ISP Network Operators
White Paper Motorola is developing solutions for the TV White Space spectrum for both Service Providers as well as municipal state and local government entities. This paper specifically focuses on Motorola's fixed... [15 Aug 2009]
The Future of Professional Two-Way Radio: Digital
White Paper This white paper gives an overview of two-way digital technology and the advantages it offers to mobile professionals in industries such as transportation, education, building construction and manufacturing, energy and utilities, private... [15 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... [03 Aug 2009]
