The coalition wants to set a standard for digital delivery of public services that other governments around the world will aspire to. That's what Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude told the audience at Sprint 13, a government ...
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Iran's growing cyber capabilities are a "force to be reckoned with", a senior United States Air Force officer has warned. General William Shelton, commander of the US Air Force Space Command, made the comment to reporters at a Defense ...
Olympic CIO Gerry Pennell and Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox are included in this year’s New Year honours list Martha Lane Fox, who advises government on digital strategies, including the move to a single domain for ...
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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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Mutualisation will be the future model of public sector services,Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has said. Speaking at Intellect's World-Class Public Services conference,he said digital delivery was important to the open public ...
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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Medical devices often use commercial PCs and have wireless connections that make them vulnerable to malware, or require software updates for security, but the U.S. may not be doing an adequate job tracking these risks, researchers ...
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Two government departments have migrated onto the Gov.uk site, as part of the first moves to bring all departmental information under a single domain. The home pages of the Department for Transport and the Department for Communities and ...
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The Government Digital Service (GDS) has launched its Gov.uk website, intended to become a single domain for online public services to replace hundreds of departmental sites. The move to Gov.uk is expected to create significant cost ...
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The government has named the first public services to go digital, following the publication of 18 individual departmental digital strategies outlining moves to digital by default public services. The strategies detail how departments will ...
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The Cabinet Office today announced the 29 companies that will offer services over the government’s public sector network (PSN). The framework, which is set to cost between 500m and 3bn over the next two years, aims to provide a ...
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The Cabinet Office has named Bill Crothers as government chief procurement officer following the departure of incumbent John Collington. Bill Crothers is currently executive director for commercial relationships at the Cabinet Office. He ...
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The government's CIO,Andy Nelson(pictured),has spelled out his future wishes for the ongoing G-Cloud project,which include a structure more like Apple's App Store,and a service contract that can be shifted easily between suppliers. ...
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The government's CIO, Andy Nelson (pictured), has spelled out his future wishes for the ongoing G-Cloud project, which include a structure more like Apple's App Store, and a service contract that can be shifted easily between suppliers. ...
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