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News Steel said: "As a public sector CIO and, now, the president of Socitm I'm used to thinking about how ICT can be used to promote improved service accessibility through digital inclusion, but Byte Night provides a special focus that's about the... [07 Aug 2008]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile Steel has just been elected president of the public sector IT managers association, Socitm, and will spend most of his time this year on secondment there managing an ambitious change programme but will still have control of overall IT strategy at... [11 Jun 2008]
Dylan Roberts
CIO Profile Roberts, who has been at Leeds Council since 2003, is on the Local Government National CIO Council, is the Yorkshire and Humber regional executive of Socitm and chairs the West Yorkshire CIO group. As head of ICT at Leeds City Council, Dylan... [11 Jun 2008]
Smart phone battle: Qwerty vs touchscreen
News Richard Steel, CIO at the London Borough of Newham and president of Socitm, said: "Qwerty keyboards were designed to slow typists down in the days when the print hammers could get tangled. Apple may be set to release the new super-duper all-singing... [22 May 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. Writing on the Socitm president's blog on Thursday, Steel said: "I also feel honoured... [29 Apr 2008]
Local gov't CIOs to set national agenda
News The Local Government CIO Council met for the first time on 1 April after being set up by local government IT group the Society of IT Management (Socitm). President of Socitm, Rose Crozier, said the new group would allow local CIOs to make a... [02 Apr 2008]
Local gov't adopts web-savvy interaction
News The number of visitors to council websites sites increased by more than 10 per cent in the past 12 months according to the 2008 Better Connected report from local government IT body the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm). [04 Mar 2008]
'Fundamental' flaws in Child Support Agency IT
News Richard Steel, VP of local government IT user group Socitm, said: "When designing a complex IT system, a prerequisite is fundamental review of the relevant businesses processes before the detailed specification can be produced. [04 Mar 2008]
Spiralling costs derail £500m offender-tracking system
News Public sector ICT body Socitm spoke out in the wake of the incident and condemned the government's track record on big IT projects as "embarrassing". Socitm VP Steve Hopson told silicon.com: "I would describe it as embarrassing, it is not good for... [09 Jan 2008]
Commons' committee calls for reckless-data-loss laws
News Richard Steel, CIO of the London Borough of Newham and vice president of local government IT user group Socitm, told silicon.com: "I think probably it should be [a criminal offence] but there have to be controls. [03 Jan 2008]
Local gov't tech spend to hit £3bn
News According to the Society of IT Management's (Socitm) annual IT Trends survey, spending on local government IT will rise again as councils invest in efficiency programmes and securing the information held on their computers. [03 Jan 2008]
Power concentration in software for councils
News Companies that have achieved a strong position within key sectors of the market include Anite, Capita, Civica, ESRI, Mapinfo and Northgate Information Systems, according to data collected by the Society of IT Management (Socitm) for its latest... [13 Jul 2007]
The CIOs transforming government IT
Comment Local government IT body Socitm has found that following the increased investment for councils to meet the 2005 e-government targets of putting services online, IT spend has fallen back to below 2004 levels - despite the central role they will be... [27 Jun 2007]
Steve Palmer
CIO Profile Palmer is a past chairman of local-government IT body Socitm and a founding member and co-sponsor of the European Local Government E-Leaders Forum. One of the handful of public sector representatives gracing the list, Steve Palmer has a leading... [06 Jun 2007]
Richard Steel
CIO Profile Steel is active in various IT industry bodies including the Society of IT Managers (Socitm) public-sector user group, and has contributed to wider infrastructure and standards debates through the government's Common Infrastructure Board and the... [06 Jun 2007]
