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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up In fact - as an aside - even Whitehall is putting IT on a diet, with the government's green IT champion, Chris Chant telling silicon.com the public sector has "stopped eating pies and put ourselves on a diet" when it... [20 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News Chant, who is also the CIO for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), believes the government has now laid the groundwork to trim the 460,000 tonnes of CO2 pumped out by Whitehall IT each year. [13 Nov 2009]
'Wi-fi hack makes plan to ban file-sharers unfair'
News ISP TalkTalk has criticised proposals by the government to cut illegal file-sharers' internet access, on the grounds of wi-fi vulnerability to hacking. In a blog post last week, Andrew Heaney, TalkTalk's executive director for strategy... [19 Oct 2009]
John Suffolk
AS Profile Suffolk became even more accessible to the public this year when he started his own blog, in which he lays out the IT complexity of Whitehall, 750 non-departmental bodies and 423 local authorities in the UK. [30 Sep 2009]
Tim Berners-Lee
AS Profile The inventor of the world wide web (way back in 1989) was enlisted by government earlier this year to help "set free" the reams of public data locked away inside Whitehall. While last year's Agenda Setters' winner might... [30 Sep 2009]
George Osborne
AS Profile He also said a Conservative government would publish as much Whitehall data as possible online in an open format that would allow people to mix and match it with other information. IT and business process outsourcing... [29 Sep 2009]
Is open source software finding a home in Whitehall?
News The UK government may have been slow to adopt open source software but there are signs that the tide may be turning. In February the CIO Council published a policy designed to stimulate the uptake of open source across the public sector. [29 Sep 2009]
More of a whimper than a bang: Whitehall's green tech drive
News However, the 12,000-tonne saving represents a tiny fraction of government IT's carbon emissions - equating to just 2.6 per cent of the 460,000 tonnes that Whitehall IT generates each year. The government has trimmed the... [16 Sep 2009]
First ID card watchdog named
News The government has appointed its first identity commissioner to keep tabs on the UK's ID cards scheme. Sir Joseph Pilling will take up the watchdog role from next month, where he will be responsible for independently monitoring how ID... [14 Sep 2009]
ISPs protest against plans to cut off illegal file-sharers
News Representatives from the UK's largest ISPs have signed a letter protesting against Whitehall's plans. Opposition to government proposals to disconnect suspected illegal file-sharers from the internet is making itself felt. [07 Sep 2009]
Bletchley Park funding call rejected: No new cash for codebreakers' home
News Bletchley Park, the home of UK codebreakers during World War II, will get no financial support from the government after a petition calling for funding from Whitehall was rejected today. Bletchley Park is to receive no... [26 Aug 2009]
Let's shine a light into the public sector IT money pit
Comment So - shocker - it appears that blindly shovelling money into upgrading and maintaining systems in a Whitehall department or local authority doesn't translate into shiny new services. Whitehall and the... [17 Aug 2009]
Green shoots? What green shoots? No let up in IT spending freeze
News The research also forecasts an increase in government IT outsourcing and even offshoring in 2009, echoing recent indications from Whitehall insiders that central government may be softening in its opposition to sending... [11 Aug 2009]
One in 78: The chances your comms are being monitored
News Worries over ordinary citizens being tracked by the government may seem like Big Brother paranoia, but the likelihood you're on the Whitehall's watch list is far higher than you might suppose. What are the chances the... [11 Aug 2009]
Offshoring: Is resistance weakening at Whitehall?
News After years of resistance to offshoring, the need to slash billions of pounds from public spending could see Whitehall looking to send IT work abroad. Whitehall already offshores a limited amount of... [03 Aug 2009]
