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RSS public sector itHealth trust abandons NHS care record upgrade
News The Trust said it terminated the implementation because it had lost confidence in the delivery of the system following Fujitsu's exit as the provider delivering the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the south of England.silicon.com Public Sector [22 Jul 2008]
Is the UK an open source laggard?
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]
PAYE system not ready for rollout
News HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) postponed the PAYE system because of uncertainty over whether it was ready to oversee the collection of taxes from about 31 million people.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. [21 Jul 2008]
Courts to save millions with streamlined tech
News The £7.2m secure web-based application pulls information together from police, CPS and court computer systems to chart defendants' progress.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. [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. I told the Ministry of Justice IT conference at the QEII centre in London last month that all of us need to have more... [17 Jul 2008]
Soham report IT systems still not in place
News In his review of criminality information Sir Ian Magee said: "All of these taken together suggest that some of the recommendations in the Bichard report most likely to have an impact on public protection have yet to be fully delivered.silicon.com... [17 Jul 2008]
Exeter Uni gives £5.5m network upgrade the green light
News The test was outsourced to Spirent Communications and was used to determine whether the preferred supplier hardware was fit to deliver 200 channels of IPTV and 1Gbps networking to the desktop across the university's campus.silicon.com Public Sector [17 Jul 2008]
'Greedy' appliances to power one million homes
News Efficiency improvements to the greediest home appliances - including power supplies for laptops, mobile phones and printers - can save enough energy to power 1.5 million homes, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs... [14 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. The review found that outsourced public services' contribution to... [11 Jul 2008]
Foreign Office tech overspend leads to project trimming
News The cost of implementing the revamped FCO Telecommunications Network (FTN) has ballooned from £180m to £240m, while the Future Firecrest project to upgrade its desktop systems worldwide is expected to cost £26m more than the £332m originally... [07 Jul 2008]
NHS data handling: Calls for independent audits
News It would mark a shift away from the current arrangements that see trusts responsible for carrying out their own "information governance assurance" self assessments.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. [07 Jul 2008]
MoD IT - late and over budget
News The completion date for the first part of the DII is 18 months late.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. A Ministry of Defence (MoD) programme to replace hundreds of IT systems with a single... [04 Jul 2008]
MoD plans telepresence trial
News The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is considering a telepresence pilot, as part of its plans to tackle its travel budget.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox. Earlier this month it launched an online travel... [03 Jul 2008]
ClearPath Plus Integration
White Paper Whether an enterprise delivers services or products, is in the commercial or public sector, is large or small, the challenges of new electronic business models confront all data centers. Implementing new IT architectures in support of new... [03 Jul 2008]
Trustworthy Storage and Management of Electronic Records: The Role of Optical Storage Technology
White Paper The focus of this paper is on cartridge-based, 5¼ inch write-once, read-many (WORM) optical disk storage that is used in mainstream commercial and public sector applications, which produce electronic records. [03 Jul 2008]
