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Information and Communications Technology - United Kingdom
Articles and resources about trends and issues in information and communications technology within the United Kingdom.
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- Chief Information Officers - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about Chief Information Officers in the United Kingdom.
- Cyber Security - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to cyber security in the United Kingdom.
- Data Centres - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about egovernment trends and initiatives relating to data centres within the United Kingdom.
- Email - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to email security and policy within government in the United Kingdom.
- ICT Procurement - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources relating to ICT Procurement within the United Kingdom.
- Information Society - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about the information society within the United Kingdom.
- IT Project Management - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about trends and issues relating to information technology project management within government in the United Kingdom.
- IT Security - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources relating to IT Security within the United Kingdom.
- IT Skills - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about egovernment trends and initiatives relating to IT skills within the United Kingdom.
- Open-Source - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about the adoption of open-source by government in the United Kingdom.
- RFID - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about egovernment trends and initiatives relating to RFID within the United Kingdom.
- Shared Services - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about egovernment trends and initiatives relating to shared services within the United Kingdom.
- Spam - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about egovernment trends and initiatives relating to spams within the United Kingdom.
- Thin Client Computing - United Kingdom
- Articles and resources about the trends and issues in the adoption of thin client computing by government in the United Kingdom.
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- Information and Communications Technology - United Kingdom - Archive
- Articles and resources about trends and issues in information and communications technology within the United Kingdom.
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- Transformational Government Enabled by Technology
- The vision is about better using technology to deliver public services and policy outcomes that have an impact on citizens’ daily lives: through greater choice and personalisation, delivering better public services, such as health, education and pensions; benefiting communities by reducing burdens on front line staff and giving them the tools to help break cycles of crime and deprivation; and improving the economy through better regulation and leaner government.
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- Press release Government adopts 'Cloud First' policy for public sector IT
- Organisation: Cabinet Office, Published: 5 May 2013. Policy: Buying and managing government goods and services more efficiently and effectively. Minister: The Rt Hon Francis Maude MP. "The launch of an expanded G-Cloud supplier framework will support growth in cloud computing. Purchases through the cloud should be the first option considered by public sector buyers of IT products and services, the government has confirmed today. The formal introduction of a 'Cloud First' policy will drive wider adoption of cloud computing in the public sector, boosting business – and furthering savings and efficiencies – through the government CloudStore, which is a quicker, cheaper and more competitive way for the public sector to buy IT, Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, said today..."
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- Open Standards Hub - Challenges
- UK Cabinet Office - "We publish challenges and invite you to respond with ideas about how these could be solved with open standards. Here we list the challenges that we are currently working on. If you have registered you can submit a response or comment to help us develop a proposal. If you think we're missing something, suggest a new challenge..."
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- How to run a successful Bring Your Own Device scheme
- Posted by Andy Price. Public Technology, Thursday, 7 March 2013. "The ICO has labelled organisations as having a laissez faire attitude to BYOD schemes - but fear not - they've supplied all the guidance that's needed to be confident in running a BYOD scheme in the public sector. The guidance, however, isn't the most easily digestible document out there - so what are the key strands the ICO advises data controllers on following? Starting with an overview, the ICO outlines the expectations and key considerations:..."
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- U.K. Government Cloud Ambitions Bigger Than Achievements, Critics Say
- by Gary Flood. Information Week, February 20, 2013. "A year after it launched an easy to use, SMB-vendor friendly buying site, critics question what they see as very patchy U.K. government CloudStore success. In February 2012, the U.K. government launched its answer to Obama's Government Cloud: the CloudStore, a way to easily buy cloud-based technology off a catalogue with transparent pricing as a way to deliver savings for the public purse. A year in and the evidence seems to be mounting that civil servants don't actually care that much about using the cloud to do anything of the sort..."
Added: 28 February 2013;
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- Can the mutuals model help government change IT?
- by Kathleen Hall. Computer Weekly, Wednesday 20 February 2013. "Mutuals are being touted as a new model for the public sector, with the hope of improving productivity by transferring ownership to employees. But can they help change the way government does IT, both as a user and provider of services? Employees are spending their own money and that of their colleagues, mutuals provide a clear incentive to find a cheaper and faster way of running the business – a mechanism that could drive down the public sector’s £16bn per-year IT bill..."
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- Public sector transformation: It's about much more than just technology
- By Ian Cunningham, Head of Public Sector, Vodafone UK, Posted by Andy Price. Public Technology, Wednesday, 13 February 2013. "Public sector organisations in the UK are under immense pressure to reduce costs and improve service delivery, so there is an immediate need for transformation in the way the public sector operates. This will be achieved not simply through spending cuts and staff reductions, but through efficiency and productivity gains achieved through finding new and better ways of working. Beyond the urgent requirement for budget cuts, there are other factors driving the need for public sector transformation. With unemployment set to rise in 2013, an ageing population and an increasingly tech-savvy workforce there is a growing need for public services to be delivered in new, more flexible ways..."
Added: 14 February 2013;
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- Liam Maxwell named as Government Chief Technology Officer
- Cabinet Office, 13 December 2012. "Government Chief Operating Officer Stephen Kelly today announced the appointment of Liam Maxwell as Government Chief Technology Officer (CTO)..."
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- Progress on the UK Cyber Security Strategy: Protecting and Promoting the UK in a Digital World - in pdf format (157kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). UK Cabinet Office, 3 December 2012. "... The UK Cyber Security Strategy sets out our approach to tackling the threat. It clearly states four objectives for the UK: - To tackle cyber crime and to be one of the most secure places in the world to do business in cyber space - To be more resilient to cyber attacks and better able to protect our interests in cyberspace - To have helped shape an open, stable and vibrant cyberspace which the UK public can use safely and that supports open societies - To have the cross-cutting knowledge, skills and capabilities the UK needs to underpin these other objectives. These objectives are delivered through the National Cyber Security Programme which prioritises and co-ordinates work across Government and provides £650 million of new funding to improve the UK’s cyber security capability. We are making good progress against these objectives and I am pleased to be able to report on some notable achievements..."
Added: 4 December 2012;
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- G Cloud: The barriers to acceptance
- Posted by Andy Price. Public Technology, 21 November 2012. "Cloud based services, whether used by the public sector or commercial business community, seem to be growing steadily. Yet despite this, the government's new G-Cloud initiative for procuring hardware, software and specialist services, called CloudStore, seems slow gaining momentum since launch in February 2012. Considering the projected benefits, including ease of sourcing and procurement savings of up to £180M by 2015, the government hopes this is simply a matter of being slow off the starting block..."
Added: 22 November 2012;
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- Second G-Cloud supplier framework goes live
- UK Cabinet Office, 26 October 2012. "The announcement of the successful companies on the second G-Cloud supplier framework for cloud-based IT services, underlines how the Government is making it easier for SME suppliers to compete for public sector business, Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said today. Of the 458 suppliers on the 12-month framework, which goes live today, three-quarters are SMEs... The second tranche of the G-Cloud service catalogue includes around 3,000 services, such as anti-spam, agile tools, simulation and training, and end-user device service packages..."
Added: 29 October 2012;
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- Assess the risk of cloud, urges ICO
- by Gill Hitchcock. Government Computing, 27 September 2012. "New guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office tells cloud computing users not to take security assurance for granted The government and other cloud computing users could benefit from a privacy impact assessment to identify any security risks before processing data in large cloud services, says the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)..."
Added: 4 October 2012;
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- Guidance on the use of cloud computing - in pdf format (344kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Information Commissioner's Office, Version: 1.1, October 2012. "... This guidance explains what you should consider prior to a move to cloud computing for the processing of personal data... Overview - Cloud computing services offer organisations access to a range of technologies and service models typically delivered over the internet. - Organisations that maintain and manage their own computer infrastructure may be considering a move to cloud computing to take advantage of a range of benefits that may be achieved such as increased security, reliability and resilience for a potentially lower cost. - By processing data in the cloud an organisation may encounter risks to data protection that they were previously unaware of. It is important that data controllers take time to understand the data protection risks that cloud computing presents. - This guidance offers a set of questions and approaches an organisation should consider, in conjunction with a prospective cloud provider, in order to ensure that the processing of personal data done in the cloud complies with the DPA..."
Added: 4 October 2012;
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- Government releases details of SIAM framework
- by David Bicknell. Government Computing, Published 19 September 2012. "£250m framework intended to provide interfaces between tower service providers, users of ICT services, and contracting organisations. The Government Procurement Service has confirmed that it intends to create a framework worth up to an estimated £250m for the provision of SIAM (service integration and management) services aligned to the Government's ICT strategy..."
Added: 20 September 2012;
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- Governance for Agile Delivery
- National Audit Office, Examples from the private sector July 2012. "... The Government intends to use agile in information and communications technology (ICT) procurement and delivery to reduce the risk of project failure. At a hearing of the Committee of Public Accounts in May 2011, it became clear that the Government did not consider agile solely as a method for improving software development. It is also a technique for successful ICT-enabled business change. The then Cabinet Office Permanent Secretary stated that 'there is no such thing as an IT project; there are only business projects that involve IT'. He also said that trying “to change the whole system nationally on a single day – the so-called 'big bang' implementation – is doomed to failure in almost every situation.'... Consequently in this report we use the term ‘Agile’ as an umbrella for a group of methodologies that can be used to manage business change projects..."
Added: 26 July 2012;
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- NAO calls on ICT teams to 'collaborate' on agile
- National Audit Office publishes first in a series of government guides to agile methodologies, by Gill Hitchcock. Guardian Professional, Thursday 26 July 2012. "The National Audit Office (NAO) has called for public sector managers to work with ICT teams, external assessors and service users to ensure the success of 'agile' delivery. Its recommendation is the first in a series of reports on agile aimed at public bodies that are either using agile or are considering doing so..."
Added: 26 July 2012;
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