The one per cent of GDP spent on IT needs to be reduced, according to deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell, during a keynote speech at the Business Cloud Summit in central London today. "One per cent of GDP is spent on IT, and that's much ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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The Department for Education is cutting IT staff among 1,000 job losses to reduce total headcount by a quarter. The announcement comes as the government aims to shrink Whitehall to its smallest size since the Second World War under the ...
Tags: IT staff, job losses, Civil Service Reform Plan, cutting red tape
There's going to be a battle in overcoming resistance to the government's Open Standards Principles for IT,according to an advisor to the Cabinet Office. Launched at the start of November,the standards are designed to make government IT ...
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The IT underpinning the government's flagship £2.2bn Universal Credit programme is again being called into question, with reports that the project is now a year behind schedule and £100m over budget due to software issues. The ...
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The government has confirmed plans to save billions of pounds per year by digitising public services transactions in its C. In its Digital Strategy and Digital Efficiency report, the Cabinet Office estimates it could save £1.7bn by ...
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Government bodies must now comply with Open Standard Principles for IT, minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has announced. The Open Standard Principles are an agreed set of standards designed to make government IT more open, ...
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After a lengthy and often heated consultation, the government has finally released its new open standards principles intended to level the supplier playing field and avoid product lock-in. But is the document a blueprint for a radically ...
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Whitehall has launched its long-awaited response to the open standards consultation, which will force government bodies to comply with its list of "Open Standards Principles" when purchasing technology. Departments must use the principles ...
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The government has put all new IT frameworks on hold,as part of its review into the efficacy of framework agreements for SMEs. All planned Government Procurement Service(GPS)ICT procurements will be paused during the review to determine ...
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The government is to test the feasibility of moving to a single enterprise resource planning(ERP)platform across Whitehall. In a GBP100,000,four-month tender as part of the Next Generation Shared Services programme,the government said it ...
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There is no question the Public Services Network(PSN)has been gaining momentum over the past 12 months.The"network of networks"to enable local services to save cash by using shared infrastructure and having better access to applications has ...
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A BT spokesperson has labelled today's allegations that the company has marked up the cost of rural superfast broadband installations by as much as 80 per cent as"quite frankly,untrue,"condemning the Daily Telegraph's apparently leaked ...
HM Revenue&Customs has become the first government department to sign a contract for G-Cloud storage services,which will see data moved from on-premise ssytems to the cloud. Hampshire-based Skyscape Cloud Services has been awarded the ...
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Government’s addiction to mega-contracts has been pegged as a key factor in the exclusion of small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) from the public sector IT market. Deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell (pictured below) and a number ...
Tags: SME procurement, mega-contracts, Victor Baldorino, UK