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News Local council IT departments' tendency to outsource problematic tech functions means their outsourcing projects are rarely successful, according to a new report. The report, from consultants Deloitte, reveals that local... [10 Nov 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News If you are a CIO, CTO, IT director or equivalent at a large or small company in the private or public sector and you want to be part of silicon.com's CIO Jury pool, or you know an... [23 Oct 2009]
Windows 7: Who's adopting it, when and why?
News With the state of the finances in the public sector however I do not think there will be a big take-up at all. As the budgets free up this I think that Windows 7 will be a success in the private... [21 Oct 2009]
It's down to you to save the world, IT industry
News In a recommendation adopted by the Commission last week, it called on the ICT sector to become 20 per cent more energy efficient by 2015, and to outline, by 2011, the practical steps it... [13 Oct 2009]
Field-Tested Data Mining
White Paper In the past few years, many businesses and some public sector agencies have invested heavily in some combination of ERP, supply chain management, sales force automation, data warehouse, query and... [07 Oct 2009]
Who's afraid of malware? Four in 10 have never had a virus
News The news comes against a background of high-profile infections, with a number of public sector bodies being hit by the Conficker worm. Conficker has in the past infected several public... [05 Oct 2009]
'New tech? Not for me': CIOs running scared in the recession
News Consequently the tech market is feeling the pinch: IT purchases by business and the public sector in Western and Central European countries are forecast to shrink 6.3 per cent... [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. Panellists said Suffolk is a pair... [30 Sep 2009]
Karen Price
AS Profile As CEO of e-skills UK, the Sector Skills Council for business and information technology, it's Karen Price's job to nurture and grow the nation's IT skills. The Agenda Setters judges... [29 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News At the moment the public sector is spending £16bn a year on IT procurement and that is going to about eight different companies, clearly there are some issues there," he said. The idea... [29 Sep 2009]
Google's $10m change-the-world prize: 16 themes chosen
News Work toward more socially conscious tax policies: "Fund the most promising efforts to make the tax system more transparent and better at supporting societal sustainability and development.User ideas in this category highlight tax policy... [28 Sep 2009]
HM Treasury strikes five-year IT services deal
News The Flex framework will see Fujitsu offering shared services to a range of public sector organisations, allowing the public sector to save money by sharing software... [25 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.09.09
Round-Up Of course, the public sector pigeons carrying civil service memory sticks would be half blind and have no sense of direction. It crossed the 60 miles in two hours. Plus, if the pigeon... [18 Sep 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News Mark Davison, head of public sector at IT services company Getronics, said: "If the central government estate is to be carbon-neutral by 2012 as the target states, there needs to be far... [16 Sep 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Outsourcing
Cheat Sheet The public sector is predicted to increase the amount it spends on IT services by 4.3 per cent year-on-year in 2009 and outsourcing is likely to play an important role... [11 Sep 2009]
