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Civil Service Denies Email Foul Play
News The Civil Service department insisted the move was part of an ongoing management policy to avoid wasting taxpayers' money and not a way of ducking the Freedom of Information Act (FoI). But many inside Parliament have criticised the Civil Service...
[December 20, 2004, 12:30]
Civil Service Will Spend £2.5b On IT This Year
News The Civil Service IS Market Profile 1997' costs £3,950. London-based Kable says IT spend has been on an eight per cent of total budget plateau for several years. One interesting movement is towards outsourcing which accounted for just £23 million...
[April 16, 1997, 16:31]
Tech Investment Hits Civil Service Jobs
News Chancellor Gordon Brown has said the government's investment in technology paved the way for impending civil service job cuts. The headlines have emphasised his announcement that 104,000 civil service jobs will be shed around the UK in order to...
[July 13, 2004, 10:45]
HP Frees Italy's Civil Service From Supplier Anarchy
White Papers The Italian Civil Service has for some time been in the throes of a technological evolution aimed at improving both direct and indirect levels of service to the public. When Italy's civil service embarked on a technological revolution aimed at...
[May 24, 2006, 0:00]
Five Years Ago: Civil Service Will Spend £2.5b On IT This Year
News First published 14 April, 1997. London-based Kable says IT spend has been on an eight per cent of total budget plateau for several years. One interesting movement is towards outsourcing which accounted for just £23 million in 1993/94 but swelled to...
[April 13, 2002, 7:01]
Civil Service Denies Email Foul Play
Talkback This is typical of a government in crisis. Delete everything and they 'hope' they cannot be caught. It's time for change - pity there is no credible opposition!
[December 22, 2004, 0:55]
City Of Vienna - Backing Up Civil Service With LEGATO NetWorker
White Papers The City of Vienna defines itself as a modern, customer-oriented service operation. E-government is rated highly in the process of modernizing its administration. To save time and costs, a multi-platform solution supporting tape libraries was needed.
[May 31, 2005, 0:00]
Northern Ireland Orders Data-protection Review
News The Northern Ireland finance minister has ordered an immediate review of data-protection systems in the Northern Ireland civil service. The need for vigilance within our civil service was reinforced last August through internal guidance issued to...
[November 22, 2007, 10:02]
Government High-tech Plans To Shake Up Whitehall
News The government is to launch an electronic information system aimed at streamlining the civil service and eliminating bureaucracy, it was announced last week. Labour MP and head of the all-party Internet group Derek Wyatt believes that more...
[January 11, 2000, 9:34]
Who Pays???
Talkback This typifies thinking in government, both political and civil service, that programmes can be funded by various different organisations rather than tax payer funded government purse. Everything is paid for from the earnings of those who work to...
[March 18, 2008, 14:56]
EU Backs ISPs Over File-sharing
News The highest court in the EU ruled on Tuesday that, in civil cases, internet service providers should not have to disclose the names of those sharing files over their networks. However, the organisation wanted this information with a view to...
[January 30, 2008, 13:55]
Stern Medicine Needed For NHS IT Failings
Leader Put it in harness with a government and civil service big on posturing but with little real understanding of technology and computing, and you don't need seven years of medical school to diagnose the malady.
[October 12, 2004, 13:20]
Home Office Admits To Database Breaches
News In a response to a parliamentary question at the end of last week, the Home Office said it had had five security breaches in five years, mostly caused by civil service staff. Many security experts have cast doubts over how secure an ID card system...
[August 31, 2006, 9:40]
Living In A Bubble Environment
Talkback The civil service should recruit to fill at least 50% of vacancies at ALL levels from outside the service, thus bringing new life and freshness and a whole new outlook to work in the civil service. The civil servant enters and lives in an...
[February 6, 2007, 11:01]
NHS IT: A Critical Case For Treatment
Leader The civil service is in open disarray. What we can expect is for the civil service to effectively mediate, telling the politicians what is and is not possible while keeping a firm grip on contract management.
[November 14, 2005, 13:00]
Australian Criminal Records Available Online
News This new service has attracting considerable criticism from Australian civil libertarians, but also proved so popular on its first day that the Web site was almost brought down by around 5,000 visitors per hour.
[May 2, 2000, 15:54]
NHS Patient Data 'insecure', Says Group
News NHS managers should not be trying to undermine that trust by spreading identifiable patient data around the health service bureaucracy and the civil service," said FIPR chairman Ross Anderson on Wednesday in a statement.
[February 5, 2003, 10:44]
2000 Roundup: Government Tries (hard) To Get Online
News A week later the government launched its Knowledge Network project which it said would help streamline the civil service. Critics claimed the electronic information system was more about keeping Whitehall "on message" and some even questioned...
[December 25, 2000, 6:12]
Curbs On Galileo Keep Planes Safe
News A private-public infrastructure project, the consortium behind Galileo will offer commercial and civil users service guarantees for a fee. Unlike the existing GPS, which was set-up and maintained by US military authorities before being handed over...
[August 5, 2003, 11:20]
ISPs Win Crucial Legal Protections
News Although the final regulations have removed doubt over limitations on civil and criminal liability of service providers who transmit, cache or host third-party content, they still do not outline a formal procedure for the removal of illegal...
[August 14, 2002, 10:48]
