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Parking in the West End goes contactless
News The three-month pilot, which is being conducted by Westminster City Council, will see around 20 parking meters equipped with the contactless readers. Photo credit: Westminster City... [29 Oct 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News The Westminster department plans to run all of its Intel servers on Linux software and runs half of its main set of database management tools using open source software managed by Ingres. The policy has been attacked in... [29 Sep 2009]
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. Following a successful pilot programme, the... [01 Sep 2009]
Code red: Cash pleas for struggling home of codebreakers
News Bletchley Park is "only just managing to operate" at current staffing levels, according to Sue Black, head of the University of Westminster computing department, who campaigns for Bletchley Park. Capital expenditure over... [24 Jul 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... [01 Jun 2009]
Mac history, Windows 7 and a high-tech KFC
Photo With Airwave now working throughout the London Underground for the first time, no part of the transport system's 250 miles of tunnels will be outside police communications coverage.silicon.com went along to Westminster... [28 Jan 2009]
London Olympics fibre hub 'template for UK broadband'
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum event Stuart Hill, vice president for the London 2012 delivery programme for BT, said the Olympic Park would be served by an "industrial strength fibre infrastructure" with 10,000 access... [23 Oct 2008]
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]
Commercial WiMax on the council?
News ConnectMK's service is not the first commercial WiMax deployment in the UK (that was Urban Wimax's Westminster-based business network) but it does appear to be the first deployment in conjunction with a city... [19 Dec 2007]
IT skills 'vital for UK's future'
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum event and referring to non-manual skills such as those required in IT, Triesman said: "I'm not sure the government has been caught out but one thing we have let slip by is by... [29 Oct 2007]
Computer games 'can help plug IT skills gap'
News At the 2007 Parliament and the Internet Conference in Westminster, the minister said schoolchildren's enthusiasm for computer games should be harnessed to encourage the development of skills in maths and science, the... [22 Oct 2007]
Wi-fi CCTV in parking tickets drive
News Westminster City Council is busy installing networked security cameras that can recognise parking permits and the number plates of offending vehicles. Parking enforcement is the killer application that... [11 Sep 2007]
Tell customers about data breaches, companies urged
News Speaking at a Westminster eForum event, Anna Fielder, policy consultant with the NCC, said UK companies should produce security breach notifications, which inform an individual if their data has been... [16 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: Tech improves... but we don't?
Comment You may have heard about Westminster Council in the centre of London rolling out a parking meter system that relies on drivers paying using their mobile phones. Good luck to Westminster,... [28 Jun 2007]
Learn to love the web, councils chiefs told
News Other successes highlighted by the report include online ordering of recycling bins in South Oxfordshire and pay-by-phone parking in Westminster. The report suggests council decision makers don't... [01 Jun 2007]
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