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Lib Dems would scrap NHS National IT Programme
Blog Just watching the Lib Dem's conference on BBC Parliament and Norman Lamb, Libe Dem's Health spokesman, has just laid into the NHS National Programme for IT. Who would trust this government with a national database of health records," he said.
[September 15, 2008, 16:53]
Tomorrow is National Working from Home Day
Blog is "National Working from Home Day", and is being busily promoted by its organisers, Workwise UK. As a journalist, my heart drops when I start receiving press releases about any sort of "Day". This is because the majority of "Days" are Public...
[May 14, 2008, 17:31]
Markup the National Curriculum
Blog This has led me to the inevitable conclusion that markup has to be included in the National Curriculum, as part of Information and Computer Technology. The vast majority of my time is not really spent as a web designer, a web builder, small...
[December 16, 2009, 9:51]
Gov't confusion over national 2Mbps commitment
Blog Confusion has broken out within government circles over the 2Mbps universal broadband coverage that was called for by Stephen Carter's Digital Britain report. At a Parliament and Internet conference held in London on Thursday, the head of broadband...
[October 15, 2009, 16:07]
NHS spend on IT - How would you make savings?
Blog So chancellor Alistair Darling may cut back or even scrap the National Program for IT, NPfIT, saying that the expensive system isn't needed right now. Even politically neutral commentators with no agenda to oust one political party or favour...
[December 8, 2009, 6:49]
Department of Homeland Security wisdom
Blog From the Department of Useful Lists at Infosec comes a short anecdote originating in Washington State, where 64 national monuments and icons are listed as being potential targets to be blown up by terrorists.
[April 24, 2007, 15:24]
Campaigners criticise '£10bn NHS IT overspend'
Blog The National Health Service's flagship IT project has been criticised by a tax campaign group for running billions of pounds over budget. The NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has overspent by £10.4bn, the Taxpayers' Alliance said in a...
[November 23, 2009, 12:15]
NCC Vs NBC in the emerging convergence Regulation in Nigeria
Blog With the Federal Government of Nigeria’s consideration of merging the National Broadcasting commission and the National Communications commission, the Nigeria landscape is getting ready for convergence regulation that reflects the reality of 21st...
[May 7, 2008, 10:53]
Passport chief comments on ID Card security
Blog James Hall, the new CEO of the UK Identity and Passport service, has just said in a web chat that the National Identity Register will be part of the national critical infrastructure and be "securely accredited".
[November 14, 2006, 16:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Let's not worry about American spy planes, American arms sales, American national missile defences, or American policy statements that are tasty enough at the time (but somehow you need another two hours later).
[May 4, 2001, 16:02]
NHS IT debacle causes an irritation
Blog So the academic IT experts who wrote to the Government to call for an independent review of the wobbling National Programme for IT (NPfIT) are just "an irritant" to the NHS, they claim. If that is the NHS' view on 23 experts who are trying to aid...
[October 11, 2006, 17:45]
Police told: Resign to join SOCA
Blog To join SOCA, which effectively supplants the National High Tech Crime Unit, it appears that police have to resign and become civil servants working a 37.5-hour week. The powers that be are not best pleased that the people in charge of our national...
[April 24, 2007, 15:12]
Reding on the warpath again (and again)
Blog Not content with threatening operators over their admittedly usurious data/SMS roaming tariffs, Eurocomissar Viv Reding is now allegedly waving a pointed stick at national telecoms regulators for not "liberalising" fast enough.
[February 2, 2007, 15:42]
NERC gets Aurora slap on the wrist
Blog A major US energy overseer has been boxed around the ears by a US policy maker over its handling of a vulnerability in US critical national infrastructure security. I think we could search far and wide and not find a more disorganized, ineffective...
[May 28, 2008, 16:49]
Friday: Police states
Blog Once, it was nuclear attack from the Soviets: in response, national and local government would retreat to a series of deep bunkers dotted around the countryside and eat baked beans. In the event of natural disaster or terrorism, the Civil...
[June 20, 2003, 17:11]
Dell sponsors small business again
Blog The competition is open to innovators from any country and is sponsored by the US National Federation for Independent Business and globally by the International Council for Small Business and Endeavour, a global non-profit organisation "supporting...
[February 3, 2009, 15:55]
BT to manage KCom's network
Blog KCom will outsource the management of its fibre-access network to BT's wholesale division, and will also be able to use BT's national network to reach new customers. According to KCom, now that it can focus less on managing its network, the group...
[June 23, 2009, 17:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I don’t even know how a huge national debt can be a bad thing one year and good the next. The trouble with national debts - like the personal sort - is that they only go away if you spend money on them that you’d prefer to spend on something nicer...
[July 29, 2005, 18:30]
Nigeria GSM operators Jamboree to GSM Awards in Barcelona
Blog The primary goals of the GSMA are to ensure mobile phones and wireless services work globally and are easily accessible, enhancing their value to individual customers and national economies, while creating new business opportunities for operators.
[March 14, 2008, 17:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog National Rail enquiries isn’t answering, and Great Western is permanently engaged. They give me the National Rail Enquiries number. It must be witches, putting curses on the national railway infrastructure: “We’re sorry to announce the late arrival...
[August 8, 2003, 18:00]
