ACE, a global commercial property and casualty insurance firm, has named Jeremy Cole as risk control account manager in the UK and Ireland casualty risk engineering department. ACE casualty risk control manager UK and Ireland Phil Myers ...
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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 NHS Commissioning Board is looking to use multiple secure email providers via the government’s G-Cloud framework. The move would be the largest deal yet to go through G-Cloud, pushing many millions of pounds through the ...
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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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Sept machinery orders -4.3 pct vs forecast -1.8 pct Govt maintains view on machinery orders Current account surplus -68.7 pct vs forecast -51.9 pct Analysts say economy has been weakening since spring Service sector sentiment index hits ...
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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 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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The government's second G-Cloud framework has gone live,with twice the number of original suppliers. Of the 458 suppliers on the 12-month framework,which allows public sector bodies to buy on demand IT services,three-quarters are small ...
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Leading users of the government's Public Services Network (PSN) have complained that the service is underdeveloped, despite the £2bn of public funds, and four years' planning, that went into the network's launch in March this year. ...
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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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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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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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