The UK has joined 25 countries in committing to a set of principles intended, they claim, to make digital networks more secure and resilient. Foreign secretary William Hague signed the World Economic Forum's Partnering for Cyber ...
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The National Audit Office (NAO) has found that the government has made a good start in reducing spend on IT, but that it still needs to work on delivering IT solutions that reform public services and the way they operate. Government ...
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The National Audit Office (NAO) has found that the government has made a good start in reducing spend on IT, but that it still needs to work on delivering IT solutions that reform public services and the way they operate. Government ...
Tags: National Audit Office, IT, IT solutions
The chief information security officers (CISOs) of Network Rail, Commerzbank and law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse have slated bigger security software vendors for lagging behind smaller rivals in mobile security. In a panel discussion ...
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Over 2,000 pieces of IT equipment went missing from government departments in between 2011 and 2012, according to data released by the House of Commons. The information came to light after Gareth Thomas, Labour MP for Harrow West and ...
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Government plans for next generation shared services in the public sector will save taxpayers up to pound 500m a year, the Cabinet Office has claimed. In a new document dubbed the Next Generation Shared Services Strategic Plan, the ...
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The government expects to slash its software licence and maintenance bill with Microsoft and SAP by up to£150m by 2015,via a framework renegotiation. Under the deal the public sector will avoid recent Microsoft's licence fee ...
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Government may appoint 200 digital managers to work across Whitehall departments,as part of its transition to transactional digital services,Computer Weekly has learned. According to a presentation by Government Digital ...
Liam Maxwell, formerly the deputy government CIO, has been appointed as the first Whitehall chief technology officer (CTO), in the latest stage of a major shake-up of the government IT leadership organisation. As revealed last week by ...
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HMRC has been slammed for being "unduly complacent" about the roll-out of the Real Time Information (RTI) system crucial to the Universal Credit programme, according to an official report. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is concerned ...
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Research into the UK outsourcing sector in 2010 found that 7.4% of the UK’s total production came from outsourcing, and about a third of that – some 38.7bn – was IT outsourcing. It is a sector that adapts to market ...
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Stephen Kelly, the former CEO of Cobol tools software vendor Micro Focus, has been appointed government chief operating officer (COO) in the Cabinet Office. He succeeds Ian Watmore, who left in May 2012 to pursue non-executive and charity ...
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The government could save up to £33bn a year by applying big data analytics to departmental information, claims a new report from think tank the Policy Exchange. The Policy Exchange estimated up to £22bn could be found by ...
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a £17m five-year deal with HP for desktop IT break-fix services. "For the first time, the British Armed Forces can rely on a consistent and transparent level of support for IT assets in the ...
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The G-Cloud should be held up as a model for how to do frameworks in government, deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell has said. The comments follow moves by the Cabinet Office to freeze all new procurement frameworks, as part of its review ...
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