The government has launched gov.uk as part of its Digital by Default agenda, to provide a single point of access to government information and services. The site, which has replaced the Directgov and Business Link services, forms a key ...
The government has pumped 8m euros of new investment into funds and improvements that aim to help public bodies release data so that companies can develop commercial opportunities for that data. The investment will further enhance the ...
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The government is to spend GBP2m a year on a cyber-security centre. The centre will act as an international forum to draw together private sector,governments and international organisations,said the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in a ...
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The government will spend £2m a year until 2014 on a cyber security advice centre that aims to improve international co-ordination, increase access to expertise and promote good governance online. The "Centre for Global ...
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Stephen Kelly, former CEO of technology company Micro Focus, has taken over as chief operating officer (COO) at the Cabinet Office and head of the Efficiency and Reform Group in Ian Watmore's former role. Stephen Kelly is understood to ...
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The government's main information services website Directgov is to be replaced by the new GOV.UK site from 17 October. The move to GOV.UK,which aims to provide all government websites under a single domain,is expected to create ...
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The government has ramped up moves to tackle growing cyber security threats by launching a£3.8m research institute. The research institute in the science of cyber security will act as a virtual organisation bringing together ...
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The Department of Health has reached an agreement with supplier CSC over the Lorenzo clinical management and patient administration systems fiasco which, it says, will save it as much as £1bn. The agreement was formally reached on ...
The Cabinet Office has ditched plans to publish regular'gateway'reports on the progress of major public sector IT projects. The decision,according to reports,follows complaints from senior civil servants,whose compliance Cabinet Office ...
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The Cabinet Office claims that a "ruthless approach" to "eradicating wasteful spending" across central government has helped generate £104m in savings in IT spending out of more than £5.5bn in total efficiency savings it claims ...
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Denise McDonagh, director of the government's G-Cloud programme, talks to Computer Weekly about the implementation challenges of the programme and the routes being taken to break government's dependence on large outsourcers. To describe ...
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The government is hoping to shore up its defences against cybercrime through post-graduate training,and has asked universities to apply for funding to run training courses for post-graduates. Through the Engineering and Physical Sciences ...
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The government has awarded a £4bn framework for IT hardware across the public sector. The framework for "standard and non-standard IT desktop / infrastructure hardware and commoditised services" includes desktops, laptops, tablets, ...
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The government will permanently keep a tight rein on spending controls, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said. The announcement acts a rubber stamp for the procedures already in place, said a Cabinet Office spokesman. All ...
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Mike Bracken, executive director of the Government Digital Service, talked to Computer Weekly about what UK public services could learn from Estonia's open source model and why a dose of its IT leaders' humility wouldn't go amiss in ...
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