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News Microsoft is working with Westminster tech chiefs after politicians and peers complained of being unable to open the latest Word documents. Widespread wireless internet connectivity also beckons for... [26 Nov 2008]
University of Westminster Puts Its Trust in Top Layer
White Paper The University of Westminster is one of the most popular universities in the UK with over 20,000 students, 700 teaching staff and up to 1,000 visiting academics. With the help of Top Layer and its Three Dimensional... [01 Dec 2008]
Westminster Dashboard for Child Protection Reduces Monitoring Time to Seconds
White Paper Westminster City Council has a national reputation in the United Kingdom for innovation in delivering services to a diverse community in central London. Its Children's Services Department wanted to improve performance... [01 Sep 2009]
Inbox: Why is Westminster lost for Words?
Comment If Westminster decide to roll out Office 2007 instead of just the compatibility pack, I can see the secretaries and not just the back-benchers revolting! Westminster's failure to get to grips with... [01 Dec 2008]
3Com Case Study: University of Westminster (UK)
White Paper University of Westminster's main objectives was to implement a communications infrastructure that would ensure effective access to the very latest services and applications for many years to come. After rejecting edge... [18 Sep 2008]
Photos: The University of Westminster's high tech bar
Photo Welcome to the Intermission Bar at the University of Westminster students' union, where academics come to while away their evenings and their student loans. The 499-capacity venue now plays host to six high tech tables,... [20 Sep 2006]
Wireless Westminster revs up
News The long-awaited rollout of wireless connectivity across Westminster is to begin by the end of this year. Starting with a square mile across Soho and the West End, the entire City of Westminster will be... [29 Nov 2006]
Outsourcing row breaks out at Westminster City Council
News Westminster City Council has denied it is forcing almost 200 call centre staff to relocate to Scotland or face redundancy as part of its 10-year £422m business process outsourcing deal with Vertex. The row has broken out... [22 Feb 2006]
BT to underpin Westminster's Wi-Fi ambitions
News BT has signed up to become network infrastructure provider for Westminster City Council's ambitious Wireless City Project which will position the authority and its services at the vanguard of Wi-Fi technology... [24 May 2005]
WiMax comes to Westminster
News It is starting slowly, though - its first base-station will be installed in Westminster next week, and it believes it will need just three base stations to serve businesses in the Westminster area. David... [21 Mar 2006]
Westminster insiders on why gov't IT is doomed
News Westminster's approach to running large tech projects is akin to "trying to avoid a car crash by looking in the rear view mirror", a panel of chief civil servants and MPs concluded today. John Hemming, member of the... [26 Mar 2009]
Westminster - The Wireless City: Improving Business and Services With WiFi
White Paper The Wireless City project aims to reduce the city's common social problems through the use of Wi-Fi technology, by improving efficiencies with the City Council and providing better services for the community. [08 Jan 2008]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News With the government hoping to offset or reduce all the CO2 emissions produced by its fleet of half a million computers by 2012, IT is under more pressure than ever to go green. As a result, the public sector has "stopped eating pies and... [13 Nov 2009]
David Wilde
CIO Profile Before David Wilde joined Westminster City Council as CIO, he held a number of public sector roles, including head of ebusiness and head of internal and electronic communications for the Office of the Deputy Prime... [01 Jun 2009]
Photo: Policing the depths of the Tube
Photo Almost 40 foot below sea level in Westminster Tube station, a police officer fires up a radio. Minister Coaker, seen here examining a radio being used at Westminster Underground Station, said that... [14 Jan 2009]
