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6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT

...assets can be re-allocated. In addition, recently introduced spending controls for government IT projects should be "used to assess whether existing solutions can be... Read more

24 May, 2012 by Jo Best

Inside the G-Cloud: How cloud-first strategy will remake government IT as we know it

...programme was key to realising the £3.2bn annual savings targeted by government IT spend under the Operational Efficiency Programme. Today Chant won't be... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Nick Heath

The silicon.com Government IT Agenda Setters 2010: And the winner is

...Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG), has topped the silicon.com Government IT Agenda Setters list, reflecting the role he will play in transforming... Read more

18 November, 2010 by Nick Heath

Government IT Agenda Setters 2010: How was it compiled

The experts who helped create the list silicon.com's Government IT Agenda Setters 2010 list honours those individuals who have the most... Read more

18 November, 2010 by Nick Heath

IT failings seen as threat to open data push

...organisations are sufficiently skilled."Doubts were raised about the capacity of existing government IT systems to deliver an enhanced right to data," the Cabinet Office... Read more

1 February, 2012 by Jo Best

Nearly £500m up in smoke: Four failures that wrecked another gov't IT project

...Committee (PAC) has published its report into the failure of yet another government IT project, slamming the FiReControl project as "one of the worst we... Read more

20 September, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

MPs see little value in scrapped £9m eye scanners

The millions of pounds spent on the IRIS scheme at airports 'would have been better spent on immigration staff', say MPs, who have also raised questions about the progress of e-Borders and e-gates Read more

11 April, 2012 by Jo Best

G-Cloud services to go live in February

The first part of the G-Cloud catalogue will be pushed out in February, listing businesses interested in providing cloud services to public sector bodies, according to a Government Digital Service director Read more

30 January, 2012 by Gill Hitchcock

IT job losses at 25 year high in public sector

Councils cut back on in-house IT to drive down spending Read more

20 January, 2012 by Nick Heath

Tax is tax: How HMRC figures it can save £160m and overhaul hardware at no cost

Taxman's CIO Phil Pavitt on its bid to cut tech costs by £161m each year... Read more

21 November, 2011 by Nick Heath

CESG: Open-source software is secure enough for us

The Cabinet Office is pushing hard to dispel myths spread by systems integrators about the insecurity of open-source software, as it urges agencies to consider alternatives to proprietary products, a senior information assurance official has explained Read more

9 November, 2011 by SA Mathieson

Government: Half of IT spending to go on cloud

A strategy document published by the Cabinet Office has outlined plans for cloud computing to account for 50 percent of central government's new IT spending by 2015 Read more

21 October, 2011 by Mark Say

Government IT fundamentally flawed, says thinktank

...including asking the government CIO, Joe Harley, to govern which elements of government IT fall within the platform and which should remain outside for agile... Read more

2 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Better late than never? IT reforms months behind as Whitehall reveals how it aims to save £1.4bn

...the app store by December 2012. The app store aims to trim government IT costs by cutting the more than 10,000 software packages and... Read more

21 October, 2011 by Nick Heath
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3 May, 2012

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