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Atos awarded 2012 Olympics
News According to Atos Origin's chairman and CEO Bernard Bourigeaud, each Olympic Games serves as "a research centre and training ground", helping to improve the skills of its employees which now total about 46,000 in 40 countries. [05 Jul 2005]
London 2012 embraces web 2.0 and green IT
News The London 2012 Olympic Games organisers are exploring energy-saving green IT initiatives and embracing web 2.0 technologies such as social networking for the event. Organisers have also set out to make London 2012 the most environmentally friendly... [01 Aug 2007]
London 2012 to promote local tech talent
News He said: "It's a great experience to take away and bring back to their roles - the experience and understanding of what goes on in the Olympic Games environment. The Olympic Games IT is delivered by the official technology supplier Atos Origin with... [15 Oct 2007]
Ofcom grapples with 2012 Olympic spectrum
News Ofcom's chief executive, Ed Richards, said in a statement: "We can't see it, hear it or touch it but radio spectrum is absolutely essential to delivering the most technologically advanced Olympic Games ever. [30 Nov 2007]
British Olympic Association Replaces Infrastructure Ahead of London Olympics
White Paper The British Olympic Association (BOA) needed to replace its Novell-centric operating system in the run up to the next Olympics and the London 2012 Olympic Games that follows. The new environment is fit for purpose, scalable, and has been rolled out... [09 Nov 2006]
Accenture wins London Olympic tech race
News The organiser of the 2012 Olympic Games in London has picked Accenture to run the event's back-office systems. These IT systems are provided by Atos Origin, the worldwide IT partner for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games for London 2012. [01 Nov 2006]
2012 Olympics IT supplier sought
News The government has kicked off the hunt for a supplier to provide IT systems to support an Olympic Games in London - should its bid for the 2012 games be successful. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is seeking expressions of... [16 Jun 2005]
Photos: UK tech leaders gather for the CIO Forum
Photo Atos Origin is the official technology supplier to the Olympic Games and work has already started on the preparations for London 2012. Here's Tony Hallett, editor and site director of silicon.com, as he welcomes delegates to the fourth annual CIO... [16 Oct 2007]
2012 Olympics are 'major win for UK IT'
News The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (Locog) has a projected budget of £204m for information systems, £63m for telecommunications and £12.5m for internet applications to help make the games a success. [17 Jan 2006]
The tech behind the Beijing 2008 Olympics
News Getting the technology behind the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games up and running has been more of a marathon rather than a 100m sprint. But each Olympic Games has its own requirements, explained Patrick Adiba, Atos Origin executive vice president of... [08 May 2008]
Leader: Do UK IT staff have the Olympic spirit?
Leader So let's hope a decision about London - an issue for the International Olympic Committee next year, rather than eight years from now - doesn't fall down on matters of information and communications technology. [20 May 2004]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in public sector IT
News In June, rather optimistically - or so it seemed at the time - the government kicked off the hunt for the supplier to provide technology for the 2012 Olympic Games. And when it was announced that London had indeed won the Olympic bid, amid the... [19 Dec 2005]
Photos of the month - October 2007
Photo Pictured here is Atos Origin's account manager for the London 2012 Olympic Games, Rob Price, who gave a presentation to delegates on how the company intends to develop new tech talent as part of the Games' regeneration theme. [31 Oct 2007]
Top 10 retail IT stories of the year
News The organisers pledged to make the event the most environmentally friendly Olympic Games ever, although no specific IT programmes have been laid out yet. In what proved to be one of the last interviews before his resignation, Cobain outlined the... [19 Dec 2007]
Offshoring: India still number one
News On the other hand, the investment into Beijing's infrastructure and the environment for the upcoming Olympic Games has sharpened the city's competitive edge, she added. The research analyst's Global Delivery Index (GDI) released this week indicated... [27 Jun 2008]
