http://www.ukauthority.comThe news and information service for local e-government.(c) 2012 Informed Publications Ltd. All rights reserved.5Is the public sector serious about working with SMEs? Is it serious about Agile? What are the benefits SMEs could deliver? And how successful has the drive to get SMEs involved been?http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3516Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:33:43 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3516The identity assurance system used to access some online government services could be expanded to help people check other individuals' identities onlinehttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3515Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:45:18 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3515As the debate about independence gathers heat, the Scottish government has drawn up a plan which is says will bring a digital revolution to the countryhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3517Fri, 3 Feb 2012 18:52:43 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3517Claims that the new online application system for the disabled 'blue badge' parking permit is "riddled with technical problems" have been dismissed by ministershttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3514Fri, 3 Feb 2012 07:22:04 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3514York City council has become the enabler for a local 'fibre ring' carrying superfast broadband, in a move which could leapfrog the city to the forefront of UK technological innovationhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3513Thu, 2 Feb 2012 13:42:58 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3513The beta version of the single government domain has gone live, with a new urlhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3511Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:56:50 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3511Public sector managers and workforces are working more flexibly than the private sector, both in terms of setting work policies and in the communications tools they use, according to a communications technology firmhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3512Wed, 1 Feb 2012 14:26:28 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3512A second version of the new government 'cloud store' is being planned to allow new software and services to be offered continuously, offering savings of up to 90% on current prices, G-Cloud programme director Chris Chant told the Government ICT conference todayhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3510Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:40:21 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3510Concerns about personal privacy appeared in a 'significant' number of responses to the government's consultation on transparency and open data, the Cabinet Office revealed today.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3508Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:38:35 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3508 Midlothian Council has to pay £140,000 for releasing details of vulnerable children to the wrong peoplehttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3509Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:45:37 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3509Ministers are to meet council leaders in areas where broadband strategies have been given the red lighthttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3507Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:39:34 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3507With the French Presidential campaign getting into full swing ahead of elections on 22 April, candidates are embracing the internet with observers predicting the online campaign could have a significant effect.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3504Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:21:28 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3504The Public Administration Select Committee's follow-up report says not enough is being done to reform government IT procurementhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3505Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:58:52 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3505Government ambitions to impose top-down change on the criminal justice system may be doomed, according to an international studyhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3506Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:01:18 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3506SMEs were invited last year to pitch their business proposals to government for products and services to deliver better value for money for the public sector. Three hundred and fifty one proposals were submitted. Nine were invited to pitch to the government's Innovation Launch Pad Product Surgery. Learning Pool director, Paul McElvaney, was one of those who made it through. He talks to UKauthorITy.tv about the Innovation experience, e-learning in the public sector and the savings available from collaboration.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3491Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:01:40 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3491With more than £530m on offer from the government to get broadband to the parts of the country where other technology cannot reach, Socitm is urging councils to sign contracts soon or risk losing the funding.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3503Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:35:07 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3503Andy Nelson, in charge of one of the government's most radical IT-based reform programmes at the Ministry of Justice, has been named as the government's chief information officer.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3502Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:41:30 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3502 A leaked email from Capita - read out in Parliament - lays bare growing concerns over the timetable for little-known changes to council tax benefithttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3500Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:32:56 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3500People want online public services 'that allow us to get on with the rest of our lives', according to a manifesto for the future of online public services from Consumer Focushttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3501Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:11:14 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3501An online security firm says staff fines for data breaches will have a negative effect on the public sector.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3499Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:11:29 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3499Attitudes to BYO technology in local government, have gone from 'over my dead body' to overwhelming support in two years, according to the authors of an authoritative annual surveyhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3498Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:00:07 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3498HP announces a 'robust plan' in the spirit of government policy on SMEshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3496Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:05:43 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3496Librarians from across the UK say they will continue to act as community digital resourceshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3495Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:24:18 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3495An overwhelming majority of Britons believe important government issues are best communicated by post rather than email, according to a survey by an interested partyhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3497Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:36:42 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3497Senior managers in the public sector should personally be fined if the organisation they work for breach data regulations, claims a pressure group. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3494Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:09:58 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3494A clear framework for schools to improve the teaching of computing and the introduction of classes for kids as young as nine are among measures now needed to back up the government's announcement it is to scrap the current ICT curriculumhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3493Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:30:03 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3493The Public Accounts Committee says a change-of-circumstances service could play a vital role in benefits reformhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3492Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:50:16 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3492Keith Quinn, senior education and workforce development advisor at the Scottish Social Services Council, is developing mobile delivery of interactive learning to train Scotland's entire social service workforce. He is getting impressive results from trialling some novel delivery platforms - including PlayStation Portable game consoles. He tells UKAtv's Helen Olsen that the cost of just one day's 'traditional' face to face training was enough to invest in technology that could be rolled out to all employees whenever needed.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3490Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:11:01 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3490After 20 years of planning the smart city has arrived, thanks to the four riders of the ICT apocalypse - cloud, net, consumerisation and economic collapse.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3489Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:28:46 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3489Requiring councils to be transparent was supposed to cut the burden of handling freedom of information inquiries. It hasn't happened yet, says a major studyhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3488Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:53:52 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3488Westminster City council and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea have agreed with network operator O2 to provide free outdoor wireless access to across their entire areas - over timehttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3487Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:22:38 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3487A court case strikes a blow for open datahttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3486Fri, 6 Jan 2012 13:18:32 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3486Schools are failing to ensure all pupils, including those from deprived backgrounds, have access to their own learning technology devices such as laptops at home and at schoolhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3485Thu, 5 Jan 2012 11:14:13 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3485Health minister Paul Burstow says he wants electronic assistive technology to be available to more people after a successful large scale trial of telehealth and telecarehttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3484Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:15:28 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3484Across the public sector in-house 'ICT Capabilities' are seen as the foundation for delivering both local and national ICT strategies and better government for less. Andy Nelson, CIO At the Ministry for Justice and SRO for the Government ICT Capabilities Programme, wants public sector ICT professionals to be seen as both essential and trusted advisors to the business of government.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3483Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:15:50 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3483Cultural barriers and misunderstanding of security risks remain the biggest blocks to the public sector's wider implementation of open source, Robin Pape, the civil servant tasked with boosting open source has told UKAuthority.comhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3482Tue, 3 Jan 2012 00:27:18 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3482The new year honours list includes three familiar names from the e-government scenehttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3481Mon, 2 Jan 2012 09:49:20 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3481Councils and health bodies in England must collaborate more closely to improve the health and wellbeing of local communities even before the NHS reforms come in to effect, according to a report published this monthhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3480Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:22:06 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3480For public sector IT, 2011 was a year of strategic promises, deadline-setting and institution-building. For the outcomes, we shall have to wait. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3479Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:17:31 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3479A global environmental data visualisation project is seeking UK public bodies to help build maps and problem-solving tools in the run-up to Rio+20, a UN sustainable development summit to be held next June on the 20th anniversary of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeirohttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3478Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:34:18 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3478The NHS Future Forum has backed government plans to make patients' records available to them onlinehttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3477Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:00:54 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3477Chris Haynes, senior civil servant at the Department for Work and Pensions, has been helping Communities and Local Government with digital strategy and mentoring innovative local authority digital projects.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3469Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:11:49 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3469Much local spending data is so poorly presented that it would take a master detective to find it, Parliament has been toldhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3475Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:16:16 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3475Andy Nelson, CIO, Ministry of Justice, talks to UKAtv about the Government Cloud strategy that he leads, about partnering with Warwickshire County Council to test the Cloud concept, and putting the building blocks in place for wider adoption across the public sector. We ask him how suppliers are reacting to a strategy that is so disruptive to their business model - a shift from big, long term infrastructure contracts to short, agile, pay as you go type flexible contracts, in a market now flooding with SMEs.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3473Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:42:10 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3473More details emerged this week of the London borough's plan to shift around 3,500 staff onto Google Business Applications, first reported by UKauthorITy.com in Novemberhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3474Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:12:18 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3474Socitm vice president, Nadira Hussain, aims to jump start interest in public sector ICT among women. The project manager for Future Sourcing at Tower Hamlets has ambitions to create opportunities for young women in Tower Hamlets to experience both public sector and supplier sides of technology before they decide on future careers - and Socitm's plan is to roll this pilot out if successful.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3468Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:13:12 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3468A preliminary audit of the government's ICT strategy - just nine months after publication - has already found areas of concern. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3472Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:17:12 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3472Huge variations in the number of staff assigned to develop council websites have been found by the first national survey of council web teams.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3471Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:10:38 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3471Kay Brown, head of ICT at Lanarkshire Council, will be Socitm president from next April. She has been active in leading pan-public sector ICT engagement in Scotland and believes that this successful model of regional engagement on key technology issues could be replicated across the UK. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3467Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:45:57 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3467Plans to create a national police IT company - sprung on a surprised audience of chief constables last summer, are on track, according to the Home Secretaryhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3470Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:33:32 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3470Steve Halliday, head of ICT at Solihull MBC and Socitm vice president, talks to UKAtv about shared services, a cost saving DIY upgrade to core Oracle systems, and shared Public Service Network ambitions.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3465Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:44:40 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3465The culture secretary has warned that councils missing the February deadline will lose their superfast broadband moneyhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3464Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:13:34 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3464http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3466Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:57:32 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3466Devolving part of a council's communications function to front-line staff through greater use of social media can save money and improve citizen engagement, one local authority communications chief said this week.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3463Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:37:25 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3463Local authorities should move now towards implementing the new unified design concepts for government digital services launched last week or risk being forced to do so at a future date, according to the local government Society of IT Management (Socitm).http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3462Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:41:00 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3462A smartphone app to help young unemployed people find job and training opportunities is to be launched in the North London communities at the heart of this summer's rioting and unrest.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3461Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:02:38 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3461By the standards of inquiries into government IT programmes, the National Audit Office's report on Directgov, Business.gov and Government Gateway is highly complimentary. But the new Government Digital Service cannot afford to relax.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3460Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:21:19 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3460Hampshire and Oxfordshire county councils and planning to share back-office IT systems in an ambitious partnershiphttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3459Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:06:36 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3459The government's rollout of superfast broadband to hard-to-reach rural areas has stalled as local authorities are struggling to turn Whitehall's promises of digital inclusion into reality, according to a pressure group. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3457Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:38:08 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3457New open data rules could be worth 140 billion euros a year, the commission says. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3458Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:08:59 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3458The government has not measured the benefits of its central internet services Directgov and Business.gov and the infrastructure service Government Gateway, the National Audit Office findshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3456Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:18:54 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3456Mike Bracken, executive director of digital at Cabinet Office, talks to UKAtv's Helen Olsen about why, and how, the Government Digital Service intends to change how citizens and business interact with government and enable the public sector to deliver on 'digital by default' services. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3454Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:51:55 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3454The minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has officially launched the Government Digital Service - the team charged with revolutionising the way citizens and business interact with government and delivering digital by default services. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3455Fri, 9 Dec 2011 17:33:46 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3455Local authorities are uniquely placed to tackle digital exclusion but their activity must be co-ordinated between departments to avoid wasting resources http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3453Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:29:06 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3453Central government, local government, housing bodies and private sector credit reference agencies (CRAs) must work together to combat tax and benefit fraudhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3452Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:29:51 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3452The reasons for a lack of public information on many council websites about service disruption due to public sector strikes are hard to determine, according to the author of a new report.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3451Wed, 7 Dec 2011 17:33:15 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3451Council tenants will today be promised an end to the "digital apartheid" that shuts them out of online savings enjoyed by others. Hosting a 'Digital by Default' summit, housing minister Grant Shapps will describe internet access as a necessity - not a luxury - in social housing.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3449Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:56:41 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3449http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3450Tue, 6 Dec 2011 00:05:06 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3450Glyn Evans, Socitm President & Corporate Director of Business Change, Birmingham City Council speaks to UKauthorITy.tv at Socitm 2011http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3442Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:56:05 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3442David Hopkins, Deputy Leader of Milton Keynes Council, talks to UKauthorITy.tv about the challenges facing local government and the role technology must play in addressing those challengeshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3443Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:29:26 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3443Mark Walker, SCIP speaks with UKauthorITy.tv at Socitm 2011 about IT Services for Charities & Communitieshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3444Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:55:47 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3444Martyn Croft, CIO, Salvation Army speaks with UKauthorITy.tv at Socitm 2011 about IT Services for Charities & Communitieshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3445Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:41:04 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3445Mark Thompson, ICT Futures Advisor, Cabinet Office speaks to UKauthorITy.tv at Socitm 2011http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3447Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:17:47 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3447Andy Burns, Director of Finance and Resources, Staffordshire County Council speaks to UKauthorITy.tv at Socitm 2011http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3446Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:06:13 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3446Councils are saving more than £156m a year through the sharing of services and are outperforming central government claims the Local Government Association (LGA). http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3448Mon, 5 Dec 2011 19:42:58 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3448Sharing NHS data with industry - to help Britain become a world leader in life sciences - is just the start of a government revolution in open data.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3441Mon, 5 Dec 2011 06:46:08 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3441Whitehall's digital chief has invited local authorities to join central government's programme to develop a new generation of user-centred online public services. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3440Fri, 2 Dec 2011 10:05:10 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3440The November/December issue of ITU is now available on UKauthorITy.com. View an electronic e-book version, read individual features/sections in pdf or download the entire magazine as a pdf.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/191/Default.aspx?id=3437Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:08:37 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/191/Default.aspx?id=3437Dudley metropolitan borough council has been named as the local authority with the best ICT service by the local IT professionals' association Socitm.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3439Thu, 1 Dec 2011 21:41:17 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3439The electronic waste recycling industry is seeking to enlist the help of councils to boost the percentage of electrical and electronic devices which are recycled, before tough new European targets come into force.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3438Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:34:42 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3438Geoff Connell, CIO, Newham speaks to UKauthorITy.tv at Socitm 2011http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3436Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:11:30 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3436Martin Reeves, Chief Executive, Coventry City Council speaks to UKauthorITy.tv at Socitm 2011http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3433Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:09:30 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3433Sue Spafford, Managing Director, Wisdom 2u speaks to UKauthorITy.tv at Socitm 2011http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3434Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:36:42 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3434Chris Ulliott, deputy Techncial Director, CESG speaks to UKauthorITy.tv at Socitm 2011http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3435Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:10:49 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3435Local CIO Council chair, Jos Creese, joins the dots between central and local ICT strategies to help frontline organisations deliver better public services for less. Big savings can be delivered from this strategy says Creese, but they will only be a fraction of what can IT can deliver from a technology-enabled public service. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3428Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:14:49 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3428Volunteering, intelligent buying and working in partnership to with the Salvation Army to develop a social network are three of the ways local government could give support to the third sector, said two speakers at Soctim 2011 in Birmingham.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3431Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:46:06 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3431IT managers should stop whingeing and start having fun, a chief executive tells several hundred IT managershttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3427Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:25:52 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3427Local authorities may have to pay to find out the names and addresses of rogue motorists, MPs have been told.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3430Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:54:29 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3430One of the lesser noticed items commitments in George Osborne's http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3432Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:18:55 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3432Chancellor George Osborne has restated the government's commitment to improving broadband services across the UK.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3429Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:37:07 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3429Phil Pavitt, Director General for Change and CIO at HMRC, is a man with a mission - to drive suppliers of 'commodity' end-user devices "to treat the public sector as a client". According to Pavitt, the days of a £3,500 per annum PC are well and truly over and the new end-user devices framework will "disrupt the market" such that government will be able to consume these devices in the way that they want to buy them. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3424Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:51:07 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3424The London borough of Hillingdon last week joined Warwickshire among the first wave of councils moving to cloud computing ahead of the implementation of the government's central cloud strategy, with the announcement it will be moving its desktop software to Google Business Applications.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3426Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:57:05 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3426Government's ICT strategy is moving forwards rapidly into full-on implementation. Deputy Government CIO, Bill McCluggage, talks to UKAtv about the unprecedented collaboration across government that has resulted in a united bid to get technology right, first time, and about the opportunities this brave new public sector technology world opens up for SMEs.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3423Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:00:44 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3423A Cyber Security strategy published by the Cabinet Office announces that £650m will be spent in the area by 2016. The Ministry of Defence will receive 14% of this money, online public services 10%.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3422Mon, 28 Nov 2011 09:27:05 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3422North Somerset council and Worcestershire county council have been fined thousands of pounds after erroneously sending out emails with confidential Information in them to the wrong people.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3425Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:50:10 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3425 One in five English local authorities is now achieving electronic secondary school application levels of 80% or higher.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3421Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:27:44 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3421Joe Harley, government chief information officer, has revealed that he will retire in April. The news came close on the heals of his deputy, Bill McCluggage, announcing a move to the private sector. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3420Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:37:59 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3420The public sector could be missing out on as much as £3 billion a year in savings by failing to switch over to electronic invoicing, an industry group has said.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3419Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:36:47 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3419The Cabinet Office encourages public bodies to talk to industry before launching procurementshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3417Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:59:44 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3417A campaigning privacy group says one in three local authorities have admitted to losing hundreds of electronic files including personal details of vulnerable childrenhttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3418Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:00:22 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3418Five years after launching a big expansion in online filing of tax returns, HM Revenue and Customs still does not understand the costs and benefitshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3416Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:42:57 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3416The UK online centres network has joined the first wave of public sector employee-led mutuals, the network's head Helen Milner announced this week. Milner and her team of 32 staff mostly based in Sheffield will take over management of the centres from 1 December.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3414Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:14:49 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3414A proposed curb to the government controversial e-petition system will leave the public "outraged", the government has been warned. Natascha Engel, the MP in charge of selecting petitions for debate, attacked a suggestion that the threshold should be doubled.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3415Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:34:12 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3415Neelie Kroes, vice president of the European Commission, has outlined plans for more cross-border e-governmenthttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3413Thu, 17 Nov 2011 11:22:34 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3413Luton borough council is to outsource its ICT services to the Luton Learning and Community Partnership and contractor Civica. The 10-year deal, worth £34m, is part of a broader programme to save the council a total of £12.6m. Some 60 council employees will transfer to the private sectohttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3412Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:11:29 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3412In what is claimed to be the first move of its kind in the world, the government announced a scheme to allow individuals to take control of data businesses hold on them.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3411Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:40:12 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3411Chris Chant, executive director at the Cabinet Office and G-Cloud programme director talks to UKAtv about the government’s implementation plans for cloud technology. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3410Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:30:18 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3410The city council has signed a deal with IBM which it says will reduce operational costs by £1.4m a year http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3409Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:22:30 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3409Kent county council is offering £1,000 prizes for IT innovationshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3408Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:29:49 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3408Ann Abraham, the Parliamentary and health service ombudsman, has made public for only the second time ever a report into one of her investigationshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3407Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:42:04 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3407Local authorities are being fleeced of millions of pounds by criminals exploiting online transparency drives, the Audit Commission warns. http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3406Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:46:40 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3406Inaccessible websites are preventing councils from maximising cost savings from shifting older and disabled citizens towards online self-service, according to the head of the UK's leading digital inclusion charity.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3405Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:23:31 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3405Next year's Olympics will be the first to take place in a post iPhone and smartphone world, with 2012 organisers expecting, indeed planning, capacity for more than 10 times the volume of data across the network than at the Beijing Games - it will be the country's biggest real, and virtual, event. ITU Live will explore the technology that will make the Olympics accessible in real-time across the globe, at the challenge of getting it 'right first time' and ensuring that the country functions 'as normal' for the Games' duration, and at the legacy for local communities.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3404Tue, 8 Nov 2011 17:12:39 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3404A new report claims that there is a potential £8bn prize to be won through ruthless rationalisation of public sector estates.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3403Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:55:56 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3403Warwickshire county council has deployed a county-wide PSN-compliant network to manage and share services with fire and rescue, schools and the district councils. UKauthorITt.tv talks to Stuart Smith, head of public sector at network supplier, Alcatel Lucent, about this emphasis on the Public Services Network.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3402Mon, 7 Nov 2011 11:16:19 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3402Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, wants all public sector workers to log on 'Tell Us How', the crowd-sourcing website he is setting up.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3401Mon, 7 Nov 2011 00:03:21 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3401Individual electoral registration is a good idea - but MPs find plenty of technical hitches http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3400Sun, 6 Nov 2011 14:03:08 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3400Government's biggest spender continues to rely on the largest IT suppliers to implement ambitious reforms.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3399Thu, 3 Nov 2011 13:08:20 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3399http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3398Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:37:17 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3398The Cabinet Office finds £10m to stimulate work to create a market in personal identity systems http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3397Wed, 2 Nov 2011 16:43:39 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3397The Cabinet Office's "Greening government: ICT strategy", a sub-section of its wider ICT strategy, has missed a trick in failing to stress the economic imperatives for energy efficiency.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3396Tue, 1 Nov 2011 12:36:22 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3396An innovative online system combining mobile technologies and crowdsourcing to help co-ordinate the emergency response to last year's floods in Pakistan could form a model for other social support systems in developing countries, from reporting corruption to monitoring road accidents.http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3395Tue, 1 Nov 2011 07:01:31 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3395A major survey shows most public sector bodies are sharing or planning to share services - but have little faith in central IT initiativeshttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3392Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:09:59 GMThttp://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=3392