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Public sector IT demand on the up
News The demand for IT workers in the public sector has soared, according to figures released on Wednesday by an employment trends research company. Statistics from the CWJobs quarterly IT skills index showed the number of permanent IT jobs in the...
[March 2, 2005, 16:05]
Public-sector workers may barter labour online
News Downing Street policy advisers are working on plans for an online market place that would allow public sector workers to sell their labour and skills to local authorities and government departments. It would cover a range of goods and services, but...
[August 24, 2004, 15:45]
Public Sector Network live in next 12 months
News The Public Sector Network will be working with its services available for purchase next year, according to the programme's director. The PSN is designed to change the way government organisations buy and use voice and data networks by creating a...
[September 28, 2009, 8:18]
Public sector 'lags private outsourcers'
News The UK is ahead of the rest of Europe when it comes to outsourcing, but the public sector is still blinkered by a pure cost driven approach, according to new research. But the trend is not across the board, with the public sector still favouring a...
[November 10, 2003, 8:15]
Public sector's IT waste disposal
News The public sector must start sharing more IT systems to drive down costs for the taxpayer, as unnecessary duplication is "no longer sustainable" according to the Scottish Executive. The Executive's 'Scots Connects' programme has worked with...
[November 28, 2005, 15:45]
Public sector wins new volume discounts from Microsoft
News As part of a mooted new three-year deal, Microsoft will offer a software and support package at volume discount rates across the UK's public sector. The MoU works by pooling public sector volume licensing purchases to trigger bigger levels of...
[August 18, 2004, 10:25]
Public-sector 'laggards' resisting Web 2.0
News Blinkered public-sector thinking that blames sites such as Facebook for office time-wasting is stunting the take-up of Web 2.0 in government, according to an association for IT professionals. Laggards" in local government are doggedly resisting...
[September 16, 2008, 8:14]
Public sector workers 'should get subsidised broadband'
News Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers would be given cut-price high-speed Internet connections at home as part of a series of radical proposals published on Tuesday by Centre for Reform, a UK think tank.
[June 24, 2003, 12:31]
Public-sector IT spend predicted to fall
News The UK public-sector software and IT services market will begin to wilt as big government IT programmes slow down, analyst house Ovum predicts. The public-sector market is predicted to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 6.9 percent between...
[September 10, 2007, 16:08]
Public sector mobile technology explosion predicted
News Public sector spending on ICT for mobile workers is set to increase by nearly five times over the next decade, according to research from market analyst Kable. Kable expects dramatic growth from a market where mobile workers already account for 1.1...
[March 21, 2005, 16:20]
Public sector spends up on outsourcing
News New research shows that public-sector buying of outsourcing is concentrated more on IT outsourcing than business processes The latest research from Kable has highlighted a massive increase in public sector outsourcing, with IT contracts driving the...
[June 28, 2004, 16:25]
Public sector spending to boost rural broadband
News The e-commerce minister, Stephen Timms, has announced several initiatives to improve the take-up of broadband by the public sector, particularly in the regions. The new measures are part of the government's strategy of using public sector demand...
[June 26, 2002, 17:04]
Public sector IT spending climb to continue
News The analyst firm said public sector buyers will be looking for packages of technologies that will help them communicate better with the public - such as portals and call centres bundled with services to help them handle cases on a customised basis.
[August 3, 2005, 16:50]
Public sector panned over approach to IT projects
News In the public sector you get this willingness to grind onwards towards the abyss and some projects go on long past their sell-by date. There was also agreement among public-sector figures that political pressures should not be allowed to influence...
[March 27, 2009, 9:30]
Public sector urged to learn from business
News BuyIT, the IT best-practice network, has launched its framework for e-government to give the public sector a subtle hint on what it could learn from the private sector with technology. Among the recommendations BuyIT's report makes to the...
[May 12, 2004, 17:05]
Public-sector bodies sing Windows Vista's praises
News But Microsoft has wheeled out two public-sector customers who are both upgrading to Vista and happy with the benefits. Clearly, the upgrade to Vista works for these two organisations, which demonstrates the operating system's tangible benefits for...
[June 2, 2008, 8:26]
Public sector gets cut-price PCs
News The Government has struck a deal with IT suppliers that will allow the public sector to buy hardware with up to a 45 percent discount. The deals are available to all public-sector customers. Earlier this year an online auction saved 12 public...
[August 30, 2006, 17:05]
Public sector wins huge IT discounts
News The government's latest deal with IT suppliers will allow public sector bodies to buy hardware with a discount of up to 49 percent. OGCbuying.solutions — a government e-procurement arm — is running a scheme which promises average savings of over 25...
[December 11, 2006, 8:27]
Public sector outsourcing boom to continue
News The UK public sector is set to outsource a further £20bn worth of services - representing a growth of 50 percent over three years, according to research from the public sector research, publishing and events firm Kable.
[April 18, 2005, 17:00]
Public sector cool on VoIP
News UK public-sector organisations aren't rushing to install IP-based telephony systems. In a survey of 400 public sector ICT managers, 42 percent said they don't expect to complete migration from legacy phone switch systems (PBXs) to IP-based networks...
[December 7, 2006, 10:20]
