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Microsoft to push up UK volume pricing by up to a third

...Microsoft is in the process of negotiating with the Cabinet Office on public-sector licensing. The negotiations will probably offset price increases for the public... Read more

2 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

NHS patients' health data to be anonymised and shared

The government's NHS Information Strategy sets out plans to enable the reuse of data and give patients access more access to their health details online Read more

21 May, 2012 by Jo Best

Government IT: Sacrificial lamb or public service saviour?

...height="200px" width="300px" />Most of the paper forms handled by the public sector lend themselves to being completed onlinePhoto: Shutterstock ...some face-to-face... Read more

31 May, 2011 by Nick Heath

Add shared services, subtract CIOs: David Wilde's recipe for a better public sector

...ago, and I think that's helping us shift." The move towards public sector bodies sharing IT systems in the cloud is picking up momentum... Read more

12 July, 2011 by Nick Heath

Cambridgeshire opts in to Virgin's public sector network

...Cambridgeshire County Council and other public-sector bodies in the county have signed a framework contract with Virgin... Read more

29 June, 2011 by Staff

Virgin Media launches public-sector network for London

...for four years, during which time any customers from the capital's public sector can arrange deals to last for up to five years. It... Read more

16 June, 2011 by Staff

BT named as Public Sector Network provider

...with the Cabinet Office to become one of the providers underpinning the Public Sector Network programme, the company said on Tuesday. BT Wholesale has signed... Read more

10 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

Socitm records 1,000 IT job losses in public sector

...The public sector cut an estimated 1,000 IT staff last year, and the... Read more

21 January, 2011 by Matthew Broersma

Government seeks savings through licence shuffle

...such as Microsoft, are just as loath to discuss the subject of public-sector licensing. However, the combination of fiscal pressures and new access to... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Public sector IT jobs on the rise

...things are getting even better. The number of IT vacancies in the public sector has increased by 5.98 percent from April to May 2011... Read more

24 May, 2011 by Shelley Portet

IT to play role in massive public-sector cuts

...Chancellor George Osborne has announced massive cuts to public-sector budgets in the government's spending review, with IT departments expected... Read more

20 October, 2010 by David Meyer and Tom Espiner

NAO: Government needs 'firm grasp' on open data costs

...and finance, where costs are being cut significantly."The cost of publishing public-sector data is likely to have risen further where information was repackaged... Read more

18 April, 2012 by Gill Hitchcock

Winners revealed for PSN connectivity deals

...communication between central and local government, the NHS, voluntary organisations and other public sector bodies. The Cabinet Office invited 17 vendors to bid for a... Read more

23 March, 2012 by Jo Best

G-Cloud app store gives small businesses a lift

...across the UK a chance to compete with large IT companies for public-sector contracts. The government has opened the G-Cloud app store, CloudStore... Read more

20 February, 2012 by Jack Clark

IT failings seen as threat to open data push

...The Cabinet Office has revealed concern over whether the public sector's IT is up to the job of supporting more transparency... Read more

1 February, 2012 by Jo Best

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