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The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

The McCue Interview: Claire Hamon, CIO, Rok Group

Comment On route to the top of her profession she has successfully tackled some massive IT-based change management programmes in both the private and public sector but out of the office she can also be found charging towards the try line or making...

Tags: rok, claire hamon

[13 May 2008]

Google lays out mobile future

News Google is aiming to make an impact in the mobile sector by focusing on web-based applications, super-fast search and location based services (LBS). The online search giant has been ramping up its mobile applications for some time and unveiled its...

Tags: web, apps, android, mobile

[13 May 2008]

HP Blade Workstation Solution for the Public Sector: Workstation Computing Without Boundaries

whitepaper HP holds a workstation leadership position in the financial services sector thanks to product innovation that addresses the ever-changing IT requirements of the industry. Through its years of leadership work with, and as an integral IT provider to...

Tags: workstations

[11 May 2008]

Public Sector Service Achieves 100 Per Cent Uptime for Business Critical Messaging Server

whitepaper The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) in Scotland provides an independent public-prosecution and deaths-investigation service. COPFS wanted to improve visibility across its 62-site distributed IT infrastructure to ensure maximum...

Tags: monitoring systems

[11 May 2008]

Beijing MTR Enhances Budget Control, Streamlines Accounting Processes

whitepaper In February 2005, three private sector entities entered into a public-private partnership with the Beijing Municipal Government to create the Beijing MTR Corporation. The scale of the project and number of parties involved required Beijing MTR to...

Tags: asset management

[11 May 2008]

Italian Institute for Foreign Trade Improves Business Processes With Integrated Financial Infrastructure

whitepaper The Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE) is a public sector organization responsible for developing, facilitating, and promoting Italy's international economic and commercial ties - with a special focus on the needs of smaller enterprises and...

Tags: erp

[11 May 2008]

Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News Government CIO John Suffolk also held up the Department for Work and Pensions as an exemplar of Green IT in the public sector, saying it had reduced its number of servers by 2,500, slashing its CO2 output by thousands of tonnes.

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

Tomorrow's wireless world: Healthcare to wear

News Outside healthcare, the report points to many future applications of wireless tech in the transport sector, including road-to-vehicle and car-to-car comms technology to alert drivers to traffic jams to help reduce congestion; intelligent transport...

Tags: e-health, ofcom, wireless

[08 May 2008]

UK blueprint on how tech can beat climate change

News The strategy will focus on examples of best practice and Suffolk suggested that IT "champions" with a proven record of cutting carbon should be a model for Green IT for the public and private sector. The strategy will also set out how far along the...

Tags: climate change, energy, green it

[08 May 2008]

IT spend in retail slowing down?

News IT spending growth in the retail sector appears to have faltered, with many retailers trying to do more with the same money, according to the latest IT in Retail report. The report, now in its sixth year, is published by Martec International in...

Tags: online retail, torex

[07 May 2008]

Laying the foundations for evolving eGovernment: Why next generation Ethernet technology holds the key

whitepaper The UK Government has committed to transform the public sector by making truly e-enabled delivery of public services a reality.This whitepaper demonstrates with real-life examples of successful projects how next generation Ethernet technology is...

Tags: ethernet, robust, transform, ethernet

[06 May 2008]

Techies: 'We're worth more than last year'

News The average salary of a full-time employee in the IT sector stands at £35,160, the survey found. UK IT workers are not letting economic woes get them down, according to a new salary survey of close to 5,000 techies.

Tags: salary, jobs, skills

[02 May 2008]

Public trust eroded: Data breaches to blame

News People inside the public sector know [it] is not terribly surprising that [breaches such as HMRC's] happened but for people outside the public sector this was a huge shock. Evans said BCS members, and the BCS itself, had been "deeply concerned...

Tags: data breach, government, hmrc

[30 Apr 2008]

Editor's Blog: Time to take the politicians out of technology?

Comment And rather than the usual upbeat assessment of the state of public sector IT, I was surprised to hear them echoing many of these criticisms. The pitfalls of mixing IT and the public sector are well known.

Tags: public sector, government

[30 Apr 2008]

Geographic database opens doors to private sector

News The National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) was initiated in 1999 to centralise all address and property data onto a single database.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your inbox.

Tags: local authorities, database

[30 Apr 2008]

New president takes the reins at Socitm

News Richard Steel has been named president of the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm), the professional association for public sector IT managers. Newham Borough Council's CIO was confirmed in the role at the society's AGM held at the...

Tags: cio, newham, local government, richard steel

[29 Apr 2008]

EU healthcare reaps benefits of broadband

Viviane Reding, EU commissioner for information society and media, said in a statement: "Europe is starting to reap the benefits of broadband connections in the e-health sector. European primary healthcare services are benefiting from broadband...

[29 Apr 2008]

Top IT job at NHS split into two

News IT at the NHS will now be overseen by two £200,000-per-year executives, as compared to the previous single £280,000 IT director general post - filled by Richard Granger until January this year.silicon.com Public Sector

Tags: richard granger, cfh, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

Glasgow NHS keeps tabs on equipment with RFID

News NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has implemented a wireless networking project in the Royal Alexandra Hospital (RAH) that involves tracking medical equipment with RFID tags.silicon.com Public Sector Get the latest public sector news straight to your...

Tags: wifi, rfid, nhs

[28 Apr 2008]

Euro e-health getting the right attention

News Viviane Reding, EU commissioner for information society and media, said in a statement: "Europe is starting to reap the benefits of broadband connections in the e-health sector. An EC e-health survey has found the vast majority (87 per cent) of...

Tags: telemonitoring, healthcare, e-health

[28 Apr 2008]

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