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Newport City Council Simplifies Content Management and Improves Constituent Service
White Papers Newport City Council, the eighth largest authority in Wales, provides a variety of services such as education, leisure, housing, social services, planning, and highways. Newport City Council was keen to maximize the information available to...
[February 9, 2008, 0:17]
Coventry City Council Cuts Overhead by US$414,000 by Migrating 24% of Spend to Online Purchasing
White Papers Coventry City Council provides local government services to 306,000 residents and businesses in the United Kingdom's eleventh largest city. Coventry City Council wanted to streamline and e-enable financial and purchasing processes following a...
[March 25, 2008, 0:01]
Dundee City Council Chooses IBM System z9 Business Class
White Papers As a public body, Dundee City Council is under constant pressure to do more with its budgets, and this is particularly true for the IT department. The Council wanted to consolidate servers and reduce software licensing costs; introduce full...
[August 23, 2006, 0:00]
Gold Coast City Council Raises Benchmark for Best Practice
White Papers Gold Coast City Council (GCCC) is the second largest Local Government Area (LGA) in Australia in terms of population. GCCC needed a business solution that could handle increased business processes, also provide more efficiency and ongoing flexibility.
[July 3, 2008, 1:01]
Wellington City Council Secures Enduring Gains With IBM Global Financing
White Papers When Wellington City Council decided to modernise its ageing fleet of 1,200 personal computers, it sought an enduring solution that would preserve gains well into the future. IBM Global Financing provided the council with an affordable, flexible...
[September 6, 2007, 1:00]
Hull City Council Leverages Spatial Assets to Boost Responsiveness and Transform Disaster Management
White Papers Hull City Council wanted to maximize use of location-based asset information for users within council departments and the general public and comply with the "Transformational Government - Enabled by Technology" initiative to build services around...
[May 21, 2008, 1:01]
Birmingham City Council correction
Talkback "However, Birmingham City Council axed its Linux rollout last year, because it found that its Microsoft-based platform was cheaper. This statement requires a correction. BCC were too incompetent to manage a deploy Open Source software such as Linux.
[September 12, 2007, 14:13]
Criticism mounts over Birmingham's Linux project
News As reported earlier this week, Birmingham City Council pulled the plug on its £535,000 open-source pilot after its analysis concluded that it was cheaper to upgrade to a Microsoft-based platform than proceed with open source.
[November 17, 2006, 14:59]
Spanish Port City Enhances Building Security With IBM-Based RFID Solution
White Papers The city chose to work with Rumbo Sistemas, a Valencia-based IBM Business Partner that offered an RFID solution that met the city council's criteria. The RFID solution implemented by Rumbo Sistemas provides the City Council of Valencia with an easy...
[November 15, 2006, 0:00]
Large public-sector Linux project flops
News Birmingham City Council began the project — one of the largest public-sector Linux projects in the UK — in May 2005 to evaluate the potential of open-source software. The council, the largest local authority in the UK, intended to deploy open...
[November 13, 2006, 11:35]
Brighton Unwired With WiMAX
White Papers Bill Parslow, Head of ICT & eGovernment, Brighton & Hove City Council on its investigation into WiMAX to build a wireless broadband 'Metranet' to bring internet connectivity to schools whilst laying the foundations for mobilising workers in the...
[August 11, 2005, 0:00]
Open source debate brought to a close - for now
Talkback This hit Birmingham city council's attempt to move 134 library staff to a full set of open source software, including SuSE's Linux operating system, OpenOffice 2.0 and web-browser Firefox. Cheshire county council also experienced mixed results in...
[November 20, 2006, 23:01]
German city reveals Linux migration tactics
News The city migrated all its more than 400 workstations, of which 325 are networked across a high-speed fibre-optic network owned by the city council. A local council in Germany may have found the secret to overcoming user reluctance to Linux...
[February 11, 2004, 12:00]
Birmingham council hopes to cut costs with VoIP
News Cabinet members at Birmingham City Council are to vote on whether to spend more than £5m renewing the authority's telephone system. Paul Tilsley, deputy leader of Birmingham City Council, whose portfolio covers business transformation, said: "The...
[March 10, 2009, 8:00]
Westminster launches UK's largest Internet kiosk network
News Westminster City Council launched a network of 12 outdoor Internet kiosks today, as part of a growing scheme to close the digital divide in Britain. Westminster is one of the busiest areas of London, with an average daytime population of one...
[July 25, 2001, 17:30]
Microsoft denies role in Birmingham Linux flop
News Microsoft has insisted it did not slash its software prices to encourage Birmingham City Council to abort its Linux project. Birmingham City Council had planned to roll out 1,500 Linux PCs across its libraries, but in the end converted just 200 PCs.
[November 23, 2006, 10:09]
Birmingham to fund web access for 1,800 families
News Birmingham City Council is to provide computers and internet connections for 1,800 households in the Aston district. They will be able to obtain broadband access through a wireless cloud set up by the city council with Gaia Technologies.
[November 27, 2008, 11:55]
Union urges council staff to boycott biometrics
News A union has told members at Westminster City Council to refuse to use biometric devices for clocking on and off, due to concerns over consultation and privacy. We hope to introduce this technology as soon as possible, but this will only happen...
[September 11, 2008, 12:57]
Westminster council bullish on Wi-Fi expansion
News A high-speed wireless network being rolled out by Westminster City Council will revolutionise the delivery of public services to citizens and could easily be copied by other local authorities across the UK, according to those closely involved with...
[April 29, 2004, 16:05]
Leeds Council agrees deal with Microsoft
News Microsoft has been chosen by Leeds City Council as its primary IT supplier for the next five years. The council has chosen the company as its strategic partner for IT, setting a presumption that it will use the vendor if it has an appropriate product.
[July 17, 2008, 16:39]
