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MP calls for Internet Cabinet minister
News We need an eMinister to sit on the Cabinet and look across all departments. The UK government must appoint a Cabinet minister for the Internet, according to one back-bench MP. Government departments are arranged vertically - but the Internet cuts... [23 Sep 1999]
BlackBerrys squashed by Whitehall data ban
News The Cabinet Office said: "It is up to the [individual] departments to decide which employees require a certified BlackBerry and which can make do with a normal one. The Cabinet Office said government departments were prioritising the encryption... [04 Feb 2008]
Man charged over stolen Cabinet Office laptop
News Police have charged a man with theft after he allegedly stole a laptop from the Cabinet Office on Monday, according to Scotland Yard. The government has admitted that a total of three laptops have been stolen from the Cabinet Office and three more... [31 Jul 2003]
Cabinet Office flexes its shared services
News In the Cabinet Office building on Whitehall, the modern foyer soon gives way to older tiled corridors and offices looking out into Admiralty Arch and Horse Guards' Parade. Earlier this year, the Cabinet Office announced a deal with Fujitsu Services... [25 Oct 2007]
Shared services 'about more than cost savings'
News As a first move, Watmore said the Cabinet Office will join services with another big department as an example and the hope is that the rest of Whitehall will follow the departments' lead. In the case of the Cabinet Office, if it were to merge back... [30 Apr 2007]
DTI report to breakdown ecommerce barriers
News The Performance & Innovation Unit (PIU) report will be presented by minister for small business and ecommerce, Patricia Hewitt, and is the result of five months of research and development headed up by Jim Norton, formerly chief executive of... [13 Sep 1999]
Public sector lacks data-security sense
News Lieutenant general Sir Edmund Burton, a key advisor to the Cabinet Office on information assurance issues, said that with the exception of the police, defence and intelligence communities, public servants have little grasp of information security... [02 Feb 2007]
Your data at risk from 'Big Brother' Blair
News A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "We're not arguing for this as the only solution here. FIPR's Andersen criticised the government for deliberately not publicising the publication of the report, an allegation the Cabinet Office firmly rejected as... [12 Apr 2002]
Future of Freedom of Information Act in doubt
News Reports that some Cabinet ministers are stepping up opposition to the act have left its fate in doubt. But the Cabinet Office was not forthcoming. Clark's White Paper on the subject allows the information commissioner to force departments to... [06 Jul 1998]
The Weekly Round-Up: 01.09.06
Round-Up Last week the Round-Up bellowed its support for what appeared to be a truly forward bit of thinking from the UK government - the Cabinet Office's decision to put some of its public service videos on YouTube. [01 Sep 2006]
Beckett gives UK government systems Y2K all-clear
News It will be manned by staff from the Cabinet Office's Year 2000 team, Cabinet Office secretariats, Action 2000 and volunteers from other departments based in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. [15 Dec 1999]
Collegiate Case Study
White Paper A new Bush directive calls for pulling together eight Cabinet departments into one homeland defense department. This paper discusses and provides information about homeland security steps taken in the U.S.after 9/11 incident. [13 Dec 2004]
Cyber Security in the Age of Action: Enterprise Trust Services from VeriSign Help to Protect the Homeland
White Paper With the creation of the new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, government departments and agencies across the nation are reacting with a new focus on IT security, secure transactions, secure and coordinated communications, e-mail and... [25 Feb 2004]
Affairs' Model for a Secure Enterprise
White Paper The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the second largest of the 15 Cabinet departments, is responsible for providing Federal benefits to veterans and their dependents, which include nationwide programs for health care, financial assistance, and... [03 Jul 2008]
Reflections on Mobility: Case Studies of Six Federal Executives
White Paper This paper reviews the careers of six successful and highly mobile current senior executives who have worked in 11 of the 14 cabinet departments and 12 independent agencies during their careers. In an era of changing public expectations of... [30 Aug 2005]
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