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Covert 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]
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]
Code red: Cash pleas for struggling home of codebreakers
News A Liberal Democrat MP has asked the government for funding for Bletchley Park, the home of UK codebreaking during World War II. In an early day motion filed on Monday, MP Phil Willis called on the... [24 Jul 2009]
Teachers get £5.6m to swot up on how to use tech
News In separate news, the government has announced it's making an extra 10,000 university places available this year for students who choose to study science, technology, engineering or maths. The government... [21 Jul 2009]
Voice, video, data: £1bn gov't telecoms contract up for grabs
News Central and local government departments, NHS organisations and other public bodies will be provided with telecoms goods, services and client side support under the framework agreement put out by Buying... [10 Jul 2009]
Parliamentary tech boss backs call for £1bn IT fund
News MP Andrew Miller, chairman of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (Pitcom), supported calls for the government to establish the fund, which would be used to loan money to central and local... [29 Jun 2009]
How the £12.7bn NHS IT revamp came off the rails
News On the question of user engagement raised by the 2004 report, Ingrams added that local health trusts today have far more input into the programme but queried why it had taken an OGC review before the... [19 Jun 2009]
G-Cloud in the sky: The future home for gov't apps
News In the government's Digital Britain report published yesterday, Carter said the so-called "G-Cloud" should be created within the next three years, to allow local and central government... [17 Jun 2009]
Revealed: The UK's top technology executive
News The CIOs who voted this year include executives from some of the largest organisations in the UK, from retail and financial services companies through to central and local government bodies. John... [10 Jun 2009]
The silicon.com CIO50 2009 - how we did it
News The CIOs who voted this year include executives from some of the largest organisations in the UK, from retail and financial services companies through to central and local government bodies. Every year,... [10 Jun 2009]
Public sector pours £30m of Sugar on desktop deal
News Viglen, the IT company owned by Sir Alan Sugar, has landed a hardware deal with the Office of Government Commerce to supply hardware to a number of public sector organisations. The company will also provide support to... [01 May 2009]
Budget: £750m cash injection for UK tech
News And the budget committed the government towards the proposal in the Lord Carter's Digital Britain report to roll out a 2Mbps broadband service across the UK by 2012. But he criticised the government for... [22 Apr 2009]
£7.2bn savings: IT and back office feel the Treasury knife
News Part of the review tackling IT, authored by ex-Logica CEO Martin Read, said that the key to delivering these savings will be sharing and standardising the back office and IT systems used across central and local... [22 Apr 2009]
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