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RSS minister£39m boost for London Olympics' emergency comms
News Security Minister Lord West said in a statement: "Investing now means the Airwave network system can be thoroughly tested before 2012 and will ensure it remains resilient during Games-time. The Home Office has announced... [03 Nov 2009]
Full steam ahead for plans to cut off file-sharers
News Speaking at a cabinet creative industries conference yesterday, the business minister said proposals made back in August will feature in the Digital Economy Bill expected before Parliament in November. [29 Oct 2009]
IT tsar confirmed: Cabinet Office names Angela Smith
News See Angela Smith named as government IT minister on ZDNet UK for more on this story. The Cabinet Office has named Angela Smith as responsible for government IT and information security. According to the list of... [16 Oct 2009]
Lord Stephen Carter
AS Profile Lord Stephen Carter made his mark in his former guise as UK Minister for Communications, Technology and Broadcasting - or in other words the brains behind the government's Digital Britain blueprint for the nation's tech... [08 Oct 2009]
Tom Steinberg
AS Profile Before setting up mySociety Steinberg cut his teeth in the corridors of power, working within the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit from 2001 to 2003. Tom Steinberg's name might not immediately ring any bells but chances... [30 Sep 2009]
George Osborne
AS Profile Osborne's journey to the shadow cabinet saw him serve as a shadow minister in the Work and Pensions Department and a special adviser to Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under the John Major Conservative government in the... [29 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 25.09.09
Round-Up However, given the minister responsible for launching it stepped down, and that time is running out for Gordon Brown's government, it looked as if time was running out for another tax. Minister for... [25 Sep 2009]
Digital Britain fibre tax 'to be law before next general election'
News Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain and financial secretary to the Treasury, said the government is committed to making its £6 per year tax on landlines law to pay for rolling out next-gen broadband in the UK. [23 Sep 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News In a speech to a government green IT conference on Tuesday, Cabinet Office minister Angela Smith said IT is "one of the hidden causes of climate change", with worldwide IT responsible for the same level of carbon... [16 Sep 2009]
Bletchley Park's Alan Turing gets official apology
News Alan Turing, the mathematician and cryptographer whose work played an essential role in the efforts of codebreaking-centre Bletchley Park during WWII, received a posthumous apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown last... [14 Sep 2009]
Australian cops investigate 'anonymous' cyber attack threat
News The government considers cyber security to be one of Australia's top national security priorities, as expressed by the Prime Minister in his National Security Statement last year. Earlier this year, the AFP was called in... [09 Sep 2009]
UAE Performance Management Solution Drives Transformation in Public Services
White Paper Every quarter, federal government entities submit their progress reports to the Prime Minister's Office, which then uses automated tools to measure their performance based on more than 3,000 key performance indicators. [01 Sep 2009]
Who will hold the offshoring crown in 2020?
News But today the new Indian education minister has proposed a public-private partnership in India's education system, where 2,500 model schools would be created, which is something we have been shouting from the rooftops... [14 Aug 2009]
Tories plan to revamp NHS IT gets grim diagnosis
News Launching the review shadow health minister, Stephen O'Brien, said in a statement: "Labour's handling of NHS IT has been shambolic. The Conservative Party has today revealed its plans to reform what it calls Labour's... [10 Aug 2009]
Digital Britain: Treasury's Timms set to be next broadband ambassador?
News Junior minister Stephen Timms is set to assume responsibility for implementing the Digital Britain plan, according to a report in The Guardian. Timms, currently financial secretary to the Treasury, will replace Stephen... [04 Aug 2009]
