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News If you are a CIO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an IT chief who should be, then drop us a line at editorial@silicon.com [21 Jul 2008]
Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020
News Watson added the government hopes the green strategies will spread beyond Whitehall - to the private sector and individual citizens. The government has announced plans to make Whitehall's computer systems wholly carbon neutral by 2020 by adopting... [17 Jul 2008]
Why I'm planning a change of career
Comment The results are only too clear to see in the failure of so many of the UK's largest and most oversold public-sector IT projects. The CAA exams were tough as was spherical geometry and aerodynamic theory but now I'm planning a lifestyle change... [17 Jul 2008]
Gov't to ramp up IT outsourcing?
News Secretary of State for Business John Hutton promised a "long-term commitment to open up public service markets" that will make it easier for the private sector to win IT contracts. But the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) claims the... [11 Jul 2008]
ICO: Data breach law moves closer
News But he warned the ICO appeared to be more than "months away" from being able to carry out unannounced inspections on the private sector, despite such audits being commonplace in the rest of Europe. Last month the ICO disclosed it has had 138... [03 Jul 2008]
The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
White Paper the federal government, state and local governments, the private sector, and the American people. The purpose of this document is to engage and empower Americans to secure the portions of cyberspace that they own, operate, control, or with which... [03 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: Less data equals more privacy
Comment It's been a while since I've mentioned silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign, which is aimed at improving the way organisations - both private and public sector - look after our data. Yesterday we revealed there have been 30 data losses in central... [26 Jun 2008]
Government racks up 100 data breaches
News Reported public losses outstrip the private sector, where 41 incidents have been recorded since November last year. There have been 30 data losses in central government, 50 in public sector organisations and 17 in local government, the Information... [24 Jun 2008]
Treasury turns to tech guru to slash IT costs
News Read said he wants to help the government catch up with the private sector, which is generally considered to achieve better value for money on complex computer projects. The private sector has made significant strides forward in this area in recent... [23 Jun 2008]
MoD to save £35m with online travel service
News The service, which will support the travel needs of 300,000 Army, Royal Airforce, Royal Navy and MoD personnel, will use corporate travel services company Hogg Robinson Group to negotiate the best deals from the private sector travel industry. [19 Jun 2008]
'Connected' UK vulnerable in face of cyber attack
News He said there are several layers of defence on the domestic front, ranging from computer emergency response teams protecting the public sector, to the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) security response teams defending... [16 Jun 2008]
Exclusive: UK's top CIO revealed
News In the private and public sector the CIO is a key executive, whether it is in opening up new ways of doing business or ensuring that business processes are as efficient as possible - especially important in a tightening economic climate. [11 Jun 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile Tony Mather joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) as CIO in May last year as a board member reporting directly to the department's permanent under secretary (equivalent to a private sector CEO). [11 Jun 2008]
John Suffolk
CIO Profile Key to this is sharing best practice to improve the success rate of big government IT projects and to drive better value deals for the public sector on hardware, software and services. Suffolk's remit also includes leading the IT Professionalism... [11 Jun 2008]
Prisoners to gain IT skills
News But its newest vocational academy - launched yesterday by the minister for prisons, David Hanson, and the minister for skills, David Lammy - will offer training in data cabling and network installation for the IT industry, boosting inmates... [11 Jun 2008]
