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RSS prime ministerIndia diary, day 6: Prime Minister's question time
Comment Keep up with his daily diaries here.¦ India diary, day 1: Cyberbad on Sunday ¦ India diary, day 2: Emergency calls and rural life ¦ India diary, day 3: Inside the outsourcing campus ¦ India diary, day 4: Hyderabad's tech park ... [09 Mar 2007]
French Prime Minister's FF4bn IT investment branded 'drop in the ocean'
News French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin is spending FF4bn (£385m) promoting the internet with a move to get schools online and to improve training, but analysts have described the announcement as 'window dressing'. [12 Jul 2000]
UK Prime Minister evaluates political rebuttal software
News Number 10, Downing Street is risking the wrath of civil servants by evaluating software originally developed for electioneering. New Labour used the system - dubbed "Excalibur" - during the last election to search a database for facts which... [28 Oct 1999]
Blair urges modernisation for state of UK ecommerce
News UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, launched the long-awaited Performance and Innovation Unit (PIU) report on ecommerce in Cambridge yesterday. The Prime Minister also unveiled the appointment of Alex Allan as e-envoy, with the task of working in tandem... [14 Sep 1999]
Who's in charge of government IT?
News As the dust settles on Prime Minister Tony Blair's major cabinet reshuffle earlier this month, it is finally becoming clear which ministers will have responsibility for IT issues. Angela Smith will take on responsibility for local e-government... [23 May 2006]
Lower Saxony State Chancellery Securely Segments Intranet With CA's eTrust Firewall
White Paper Lower Saxony's state chancellery in Hanover is the ministry of Lower Saxony's prime minister. The use of eTrust Firewall has optimized security in the network of the state chancellery, safeguarding computing resources used by the state prime... [24 Feb 2004]
Ex-PM Mahathir’s dream - Silicon Valley in Malaysia
News From answering Detroit with the Proton Saga car, just-retired Malaysia prime minister Mahathir hoped to turn Malaysia into another Silicon Valley. Mahathir guided investment into active and passive semiconductors during his 22-year tenure as prime... [17 Nov 2003]
PM: Parliament to decide ID cards fate
News The Prime Minister Gordon Brown has reiterated his backing for ID cards this week in the face of accusations his support for the controversial scheme is wavering. During Prime Minister's questions this week the leader of the Conservatives David... [10 Jan 2008]
PM to pump cash into security and espionage tech
News More government funding will be pumped into security technologies, the prime minister has announced. In his speech, the prime minister also said CPNI will begin to provide a higher level of protection to UK organisations that oversee essential... [20 Mar 2008]
How will IT fare under Gordon Brown?
News How will public sector IT fare under the UK's new Prime Minister? Woods added the only possible exception is the ID cards scheme where the imminent rollout offers a political and electoral risk which the new Prime Minister may be wary of taking. [28 Jun 2007]
IT minister must be focused, Blair warned
News The Prime Minister has been warned that he must appoint an IT minister who will focus entirely on technology - and not one that will also have to oversee issues including energy and postal services. As the Prime Minister prepares to name his... [06 May 2005]
Blair admits being technophobe
News Prime Minister Tony Blair has confounded critics who claim he is unable to give a direct answer to anything by freely admitting that he is a technophobe. During a session of the Parliamentary liaison committee on Monday, the Liberal Democrat IT... [10 Feb 2005]
Big shoes to fill - what next for the new government CIO?
News The promotion of government CIO Ian Watmore to advisor to the Prime Minister will boost the profile of IT across the public sector. Watmore has stepped up the career ladder to head the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, and will advise Tony Blair on... [12 Jan 2006]
Blair lays out vision of UK's 'knowledge economy'
News UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, used this week's CBI (Confederation of British Industry) conference to outline his vision of how the UK will build a dynamic knowledge economy. The Prime Minister's speech focused on the importance of business-to... [02 Nov 1999]
Blair addresses nation in online webcast
News UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has taken to the internet in the first of a series of weekly webcasts. The webcast features a photo of the Prime Minister with an audio recording of his statement. Hailed as the latest development in electronic... [11 Feb 2000]
