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Cabinet Office pushes for shared services adoption
News In the Cabinet Office building on Whitehall, the modern foyer soon gives way to older tiled corridors and offices looking out onto Admiralty Arch and Horse Guards Parade. Recently the Cabinet Office has embraced shared back-office services under...
[October 26, 2007, 13:09]
Cabinet Office sees 'Project Pygmalion' progress
News The Cabinet Office has begun to sign up companies for a new IT supplier framework. A spokesperson for the Cabinet Office told GC News that 18 companies — specialists in areas such as security and identity assurance — had signed up to the framework...
[December 27, 2007, 9:54]
Cabinet Office seeks developer feedback on data site
News The Cabinet Office has opened a pilot website making government data more widely available. A Cabinet Office spokesperson told GC News: "It comes from one of the recommendations of the Power of Information review, to release more government data...
[October 26, 2009, 13:21]
Cabinet Office launches mashup competition
News The Cabinet Office has set up a competition for people to develop their own mashups using public-sector information. The idea behind it is asking people, for the first time, to co-design public services," a spokesperson for the Cabinet Office told...
[July 3, 2008, 14:02]
Cabinet Office hit by Web site outage
News The Cabinet Office Web site was forced offline on Wednesday because of technical problems, the government has admitted. A Cabinet Office spokesperson told ZDNet UK that the site was offline due to 'maintenance being carried out by our ISP", which...
[December 1, 2005, 11:55]
Cabinet Office heads government 'green' IT drive
News The Cabinet Office made the recommendations in a report, Greening Government ICT, aimed at making the energy consumption of government ICT carbon-neutral within four years. The Cabinet Office will adopt the plans immediately.
[July 17, 2008, 13:09]
Cabinet Office relinquishes XML responsibility
News The Cabinet Office e-Government Unit (eGU) announced on 23 March, 2005 that it would hand over the management of the XML schemas to the Local e-Government Standards Body (e-SB) on 1 April, 2005. National Projects - which promote local e-government...
[March 24, 2005, 16:45]
'Breach of contract' ended ITNet's work with Cabinet Office
News The Cabinet Office has fleshed out why it has severed its contract with ITNet for a range of key government contracts, pulling few punches. While ITNet has had success with local contract deals, the Cabinet Office contract, signed last July, was...
[June 30, 2004, 14:20]
Lost property costs Cabinet Office £100,000
News More than £100,000 worth of electrical goods have been stolen from the Cabinet Office and Downing Street in the last four years. Items reported missing from the Cabinet Office and Downing Street include 37 computers, four mobile phones, a bicycle...
[January 31, 2002, 17:48]
Fujitsu to deliver Cabinet Office shared services
News The Cabinet Office has signed up Fujitsu Services as its new ICT supplier, in a deal which could provide shared services to multiple public-sector organisations. It said that Public Sector Flex, as the seven-year framework is called, has the...
[June 22, 2007, 9:03]
Man charged with stealing Cabinet Office laptop
News Police have charged a man with theft after he allegedly stole a laptop from the Cabinet Office on Monday, according to Scotland Yard. The government has admitted that a total of three laptops have been stolen from the Cabinet Office and three more...
[July 30, 2003, 15:15]
MP slams Cabinet Office's email destruction
News The chairman of the All Party Internet Group has slammed the Cabinet Office for deleting millions of emails from its systems days before they would have been available to the public. The Cabinet Office claimed yesterday it was deleting millions of...
[December 21, 2004, 15:55]
Crackers fell Cabinet Office Web site
News Crackers brought down the Cabinet Office's Web site Thursday, defacing the site and forcing its hosting company to take it off line. A cabinet office spokesman says that, to his knowledge, the attack was not politically motivated and describes the...
[July 13, 2000, 15:24]
Cabinet Office hit by Web site outage
Talkback Hi, I could have the wrong end of the stick but I work as a web developer and part of my job covers making web systems accessible. I believe that I've spotted a possible error with the content of this article.
[December 1, 2005, 13:15]
MP slams Cabinet Office's email destruction
Talkback Can they claim a physical copy of the backups? Explaining the sudden desire to delete e-mails everywhere all of a sudden is one thing. But explaining the sudden desire to delete backups as well? Hmmm, though one, I guess.
[December 21, 2004, 18:39]
MP slams Cabinet Office's email destruction
Talkback Come off it, this is the British government, this is what they do - only most of the time you don't know it. Remember deleting something does not mean its unsalvageable, if they did perminently delete each email they would not have the time to do...
[December 21, 2004, 21:41]
National Archives puts Cabinet Office papers online
News The 'Cabinet Papers 1915-1977' project has been funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc) digitisation programme and will enable users to search for keywords within the collection. The National Archives has placed 500,000 pages of...
[December 4, 2008, 10:51]
Government warned over data-transfer security
News The government does not have adequate mechanisms in place to secure data transfer, according to a report prepared on behalf of the Cabinet Office. What keeps me awake at night is that, with some notable exceptions, across government, there's too...
[July 30, 2007, 14:41]
Minister presses for green government IT
News Speaking at the European Ministerial eGovernment Conference in Lisbon on Thursday, Cabinet Office minister Gillian Merron called on the UK Chief Information Officers Council to reduce the carbon footprint of government computers and improve the...
[September 21, 2007, 7:46]
Watmore to start in September
News The Cabinet Office announced the appointment of Ian Watmore, currently UK managing director of Accenture, on 25 May, 2004. He will be accountable to Douglas Alexander, minister for the Cabinet Office, and report to Sir Andrew Turnbull, the cabinet...
[May 26, 2004, 12:15]
