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10 years of IT failures, and what has the government learned?
Talkback There is a reason why the civil service exists as it does. You might say that but Tony Blair got rid of fox hunting and wnats to axe some 900year old chamber for the lords.
[December 14, 2005, 22:34]
Microsoft Technology Enables PACI's Online Single Sign on Unified Verification Gateway Service "ePin" for State of Kuwait
White Papers Kuwait's Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI) released a Web service developed on the Microsoft .NET Framework using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. The new service, called ePin.Net, enables government departments and private organizations...
[August 13, 2007, 8:09]
Never admit you are wrong !!!
Talkback The Civil Service culture seems to have a really big problem with admitting mistakes, even to the point of changing it's mind where a problem isn't really anyone's fault. "Although the DfT knew its initial assumptions were incorrect just two months...
[December 17, 2008, 14:12]
UK Patent Office under fire over software report
Talkback In fact that document is not merely inaccurate but contains at least one outright lie and the UKPTO has disgraced itself and the Civil Service of which it is a part by it's recent record of systematic breaches of the tradition of impartiality and...
[November 9, 2004, 3:03]
Cynical Me ...
Talkback It requires 'civil servants' to process the application, civil servants who have specialist knowledge .this means the civil service can justify specialists. I wouldn't ass-u-me that that's the way they'd do it.
[August 21, 2009, 11:01]
They can't be serious...
Blog Comment We've got nutters trying to make every scrap of everyone's private data available on a whim to anyone with a pen and civil service pension. Is there no way we can calm these people down? More of them slavering over the idea tracking every car the...
[January 25, 2007, 10:37]
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Text Synchronized Audiobook)
Downloads These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered...
[December 19, 2009, 17:12]
Air Traffic Management Company Traps 98 Percent of Spam Using New Solution
White Papers Switzerland-based Skyguide is the country's official provider of air traffic control for civil and military aircraft. In 2003, the company deployed Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 as its messaging system and used Microsoft...
[October 30, 2007, 23:45]
Microsoft Technology Enables Online Unified Identity Verification Services for 3 Million Citizens and Residents of Kuwait
White Papers The Kuwait Authority for Civil Information (PACI) required a Web-based authentication gateway to verify the identity of citizens online. It is to be used by both public sector organizations including banks and telecommunications providers through a...
[December 19, 2007, 0:01]
Civil liberties group warns of EU surveillance proposal
News Statewatch, a UK Internet-based organisation that monitors threats to civil liberties within Europe, said on Wednesday that several European governments are deeply committed to bringing in universal surveillance of telecommunications within the...
[May 9, 2002, 14:20]
LHBw Bundeswehr-Bekleidungsgesellschaft mbH Saves Millions by Optimizing Logistics
White Papers The challenge was to introduce new Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) processes and systems for greater overall efficiency and optimize processes to rapidly and accurately equip 250,000 soldiers and 110,000 civil employees of the armed forces...
[July 11, 2007, 1:00]
Identification of Repeated Denial of Service Attacks
White Papers Such fingerprints not only aid in attribution for criminal and civil prosecution of attackers, but also help justify and focus response measures and help characterize general DDoS activity. Denial of Service attacks have become a formidable weapon...
[June 24, 2009, 16:02]
State Attorney General's Office Uses New Technology to Improve Constituent Service
White Papers The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General manages a broad range of law and public safety responsibilities, including conducting criminal investigations and prosecutions, handling civil litigation on behalf of Commonwealth agencies, and...
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
A Rogue By Compulsion: An Affair of the Secret Service
Downloads Fifteen yards away, parallel with our route, the sombre figure of one of the civil guards kept pace with us through the trees. *An action packed romance with the Secret Service as the background*Finally A Rogue By Compulsion: An Affair of the...
[December 19, 2009, 17:14]
Basic Brown by Willie L. Brown, Jr.
Downloads In Basic Brown , this product of rural, segregated Texas and the urban black neighborhoods of San Francisco tells how he rose through the civil rights movement to become the most potent black politician in America through his shrewd understanding...
[December 19, 2009, 20:56]
Public sector strike threatened over lack of IT performance improvement
News The UK's biggest civil service union has criticised the government's IT plans as it ballots members on industrial action over the Gershon Efficiency Review. Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union are deciding whether to hold a national...
[October 4, 2004, 16:15]
Gov't stands firm on web-monitoring plans
News The government will carry on with plans to require communications service providers to store details of all communications flowing over their networks, despite serious concerns being raised over technological and civil liberties issues.
[November 10, 2009, 15:16]
Government to get tough on IT
News The report highlights the need for a change of attitude within the civil service. Senior civil servants' heads may roll as the government announces a blitz on IT projects Monday and admits there needs to be drastic improvement in communication...
[May 24, 2000, 14:57]
Biometric tech gets small town trial
News In line with Civil Aviation Authority rules, the Passport Service must have biometric chips -- containing fingerprint or iris data -- embedded into British passports by 2005, with the service's overall strategy of introducing a biometric "passport...
[August 28, 2003, 9:50]
New e-government minister appointed
News Along with e-government, Miliband has responsibility for public sector and civil service reform, and is in charge of the Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat. The UK has a new minister responsible for e-government following the Cabinet...
[December 17, 2004, 13:10]
