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North East Derbyshire District Council - Review of the Council's Corporate Procurement Strategy by the Scrutiny (1) Committee
White Papers The committee adopted a two phased approach, firstly to set the guiding principles to enable the Procurement Working Party to produce a draft strategy and secondly to preview the draft strategy to ensure that those principles were followed.
[April 28, 2005, 0:00]
Committee calls for mobile phone health research
News The British Science and Technology Committee, not satisfied with the government's own investigations into the implications on health from mobile phone use, has called for more in-depth research. However the Committee believes more research is...
[September 23, 1999, 11:09]
ukuug quit BSI committee themselves prior to OOXML vote
Talkback I seems that the ukuug quit the relevant BSI committee a few months before the OOXML vote. We are very disappointed that BSI has chosen to take this decision against the advice of its technical committee.
[May 2, 2008, 14:18]
Spam plan fails in EU committee
News The European Parliament is unlikely to announce a ban on unsolicited email, after a committee decided not to approve an "opt-in" junk mail policy. The EU Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs committee was considering plans that...
[July 12, 2001, 12:01]
BT boss grilled by select committee on unbundling
News The telco was put on the defensive as the Trade and Industry select committee grilled managing director Sir Peter Bonfield over the way his company is handling unbundling the local loop. The committee was charged with investigating the process...
[December 20, 2000, 12:31]
EU committee gives 'file-sharing' law go-ahead
News A set of telecommunications laws has been given the green light by a European parliamentary committee, which includes amendments that some argue could lead to file-sharers being disconnected by their internet service providers.
[July 8, 2008, 16:43]
Privacy advocates make plea to Echelon committee
News A European parliamentary committee is due to discuss the controversial global surveillance system Echelon and the involvement of European countries. The organisation is worried that European proposals for surveillance against cyber criminals is at...
[March 22, 2001, 7:15]
Select committee told that BT must lose local loop
News Cable & Wireless was attending evidence hearings being held by the Commons select committee on culture, media and sport -- which is considering the forthcoming Communications Bill. Graham Wallace, Cable & Wireless chief executive, told the select...
[February 6, 2002, 14:08]
Health committee chair backs database plans
News The chair of the Commons Health Select Committee has criticised the doctors campaigning against the development of the NHS electronic patient record system. Although generally supportive of the government, Barron said the committee had recommended...
[February 28, 2008, 15:47]
Border Security: Interagency Security Committee Has Had Limited Success in Fulfilling Its Responsibilities
White Papers The objectives of this review were to determine the extent to which the Interagency Security Committee (ISC) had fulfilled the responsibilities established for it by the executive order and to identify the potential implications of the proposed...
[December 22, 2004, 2:00]
Committee urges gov't database prudence
News The government should vow to collect only essential data on people and hold it only for as long as is necessary, the Home Affairs Select Committee has recommended. The committee says decisions to create new databases, to start sharing data or to...
[June 9, 2008, 8:31]
Oasis forms ODF committee
News The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) has formed a committee to promote the OpenDocument Format standard. The ODF Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) committee will comprise representatives from IBM...
[November 4, 2008, 16:39]
Gov't committee launches ISP regulation inquiry
News An inquiry into possible regulation of the ISP industry has been launched by a government committee. The committee will debate whether this legislation is still appropriate. The committee has called for submissions on five questions surrounding...
[April 23, 2009, 17:05]
Global Justice XML: Prosecutor Exchange Committee & Global Justice XML Data Model
White Papers New Dawn Technologies is a member of the IJIS Institute and the Prosecutor Exchange Committee. This white paper will introduce the Prosecutor Exchange Committee and explain what GJXDM is and what it can do to help the criminal justice community...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
JPEG committee refutes patent claim
News The committee that develops the JPEG image compression standard have refuted a claim by a US company to own a patent that gives it exclusive rights to the algorithm underlying JPEG. The JPEG committee does not believe there is any foundation to...
[July 22, 2002, 10:47]
Net phone security committee formed
News The Voice over IP Security Alliance, a recently formed industry group, has created a new committee to define security requirements for Internet telephony networks. The committee will define security requirements across a variety of voice-over-IP...
[March 29, 2005, 10:15]
The Senate Finance Committee's TANF Reauthorization Bill
White Papers In September 2003, the Senate Finance Committee approved legislation that reauthorizes the TANF program for five years and makes a number of changes to the program. The full Senate has yet to approve the Finance bill, but the Senate did vote in...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
ISO's OOXML committee in ODF takeover bid?
Blog It's all a bit opaque, but the OOXML standard from Microsoft is maintained by a committee set up by ISO/IEC.called SC34. This committee has now - if I understand it right - offered to help Oasis, the source of the rival ODF standard (accepted as...
[October 5, 2008, 22:36]
Select committee told that BT must lose local loop
Talkback BT doesn't think unbundling is a good idea? I wonder why _that_ is? All the more reason for breaking up BT Wholesal into LoopCo and NetCo as soon as possible: the less they like it, the more effective it is at increasing competition.
[May 31, 2004, 16:27]
ISO's OOXML committee in ODF takeover bid?
Blog Comment This can only be described as bizarre. But beware, it seems to me that it is the most bizarre things which actually do come to pass, especially when you are talking about bloated, opaque, byzantine bureaucracies.
[October 6, 2008, 8:49]
