swansea
RSS swanseaGoogle's Street View gives UK its close up
News The full list of UK cities covered by the service includes: Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, Derby, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich,... [20 Mar 2009]
Alfresco Software Case Study: Swansea Housing Association
White Paper Swansea Housing Association (SHA) is a non-profit organization set up in 1978 which provides homes in the Swansea and Neath Port Talbot areas for a wide variety of people of different age groups, many... [19 Dec 2008]
Teaching Semantics of Programming Languages With Modular SOS
White Paper Most undergraduate courses on formal semantics are based on conventional Structural Operational Semantics (SOS) and/or Denotational Semantics. Typically, they give semantic descriptions of a series of small programming languages,... [18 Dec 2008]
Department for Transport "incompetence" over shared services
News The DfT planned to cut costs by building the Shared Service Centre in Swansea to provide human resources, payroll and finance support services to its agencies and the central department. The Department for Transport... [16 Dec 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.11.08
Round-Up A road sign in Swansea that should have read 'no entry for heavy goods vehicles. The build up, the triumph, the edge-of-the-seat result - yes, the Round-Up can only take its hat off to the man of the moment. [07 Nov 2008]
Top 10 government IT stories of the year
News The Information Commissioner's Office ruled that the data held in Swansea can only be passed on to third parties for legitimate uses, such as crime detection. The year was dominated by stories about government-held... [19 Dec 2007]
MPs condemn government over L-driver data loss
News These measures include greater electronic transmission of data; plans to merge the DVLA's database in Swansea with that of the Driver and Vehicle Agency in Northern Ireland; and greater clarity of responsibility. [18 Dec 2007]
Gov't needs greater accountability to "ensure security", says Darling
News The data, which was contained on two CDs, was being sent from the DVA in Coleraine to the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) in Swansea in response to vehicle manufacturers needing to contact owners about... [18 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up What she really said was: "Parcelforce believe [the discs] were dispatched to their Swansea depot but did not arrive there. The data, which was contained on two CDs, was being sent from the DVA in Coleraine to the DVLA... [14 Dec 2007]
Data breach hits thousands of motorists
News The data, which was contained on two CDs, was being sent from the DVA in Coleraine to the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) in Swansea in response to vehicle manufacturers needing to contact owners about... [12 Dec 2007]
DVLA ups contact centre performance
News The implementation is part of an ongoing drive by the DVLA to improve customer services at its HQ in Swansea. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has extended its relationship with networking company Avaya... [06 Nov 2007]
Time Saved Efficiency Increased
White Paper Swansea NHS Trust employs nearly 9000 people and has an annual income of over £300m. The Swansea NHS Trust has implemented LANDesk Management Suite to Support its IT operations and improve efficiency... [20 Jun 2007]
Swansea ditches outsourcing plans
News Swansea City Council has scrapped plans for the second phase of its outsourcing contract with Capgemini because of cost. Swansea finally inked the £83m 10-year contract for phase one of the... [12 Jan 2007]
Fresh DVLA porn email probe: 65 investigated
News The investigation centres on the DVLA's Swansea base, where the 65 staff have been charged with gross misconduct and could face being fired if found to have broken the Agency's code of conduct. An ongoing investigation... [31 Oct 2006]
Porn scandal shames DVLA
News The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has dismissed 14 members of staff at the licensing centre in Swansea for distributing pornographic email attachments to people outside the centre. An employee at the centre... [22 Jun 2006]
