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Council Members Calls For Porn Surfer To Be Named
News A Richmond councillor caught surfing for pornography on a council-owned laptop is facing pressure from fellow male colleagues to declare his guilt publicly in order to clear their names. Richmond-upon-Thames Council had decided to protect the...
[April 24, 2001, 11:50]
Council Workers Lose Jobs Over EBay 'addiction'
Blog One council worker has been sacked, and two have lost their jobs over spending too much time on auction site eBay, reports the BBC. Apparently some of the the staff members at Neath Port Talbot were spending up to two hours a day on eBay and...
[September 21, 2007, 15:23]
Council Fights Benefit Fraud Through Voice Analysis
News Voice-analysis technology is helping Harrow Council to fight housing benefit fraud. Harrow Council said that a pilot project to combat benefit fraud using voice risk analysis (VRA) technology has saved £110,000, six months into the scheme.
[September 6, 2007, 16:17]
Council Offers Citizens Targeted Services With Customer Relationship Management Solution
White Papers South Gloucestershire Council (SGC) in southwest England provides local government services to more than 250,000 citizens. To deliver a system that combined ease of use with great interoperability, the council chose Microsoft Dynamics CRM 1.2.
[January 22, 2007, 23:00]
Council Spends £7m To End IT Contract
Talkback That was my money, is there not a council in the whole of the UK that makes a good IT decision?
[September 15, 2005, 20:25]
Council Riding High As IT Campaign Leaves Its Mark
White Papers An IT Service Management Improvement Programme has made its mark on East Riding of Yorkshire Council, helping it to achieve a prestigious Government Award. The fundamental first step in initiating the Service Improvement Programme was to select the...
[July 21, 2004, 0:00]
Council Offers Citizens Digital Identities
News Bracknell Forest borough council hit the headlines Wednesday as the first in the UK to offer its citizens secure digital identities. This will allow its 110,000 residents to pay their council tax online and access information on planning applications.
[January 25, 2001, 8:10]
Council To Take Mobile Phone Firms To Court
News West Lothian council is calling on other Scottish councils to support it in a legal fight to get six mobile phone masts removed from its land. The council voted, last year, to ban the erection of any new base stations on its property, and to try to...
[May 16, 2001, 14:02]
Council Of Europe Presses For 'hate Speech' Internet Ban
News The Council of Europe is pressing ahead with a protocol to criminalise hate speech on the Internet. After the convention -- the world's first international treaty on cybercrime -- was approved on Thursday, the Standing Committee of the Council of...
[November 12, 2001, 13:09]
Council Cuts Costs Of Wireless-network Testing
News Pembrokeshire County Council has reduced the time it takes to test the reliability of its wireless networks by using a network analysis application. The analyser, provided by AirMagnet, has been used within a project to provide permanent wireless...
[August 6, 2007, 9:43]
Council's Security Blunder Exposes Card Details
News A security blunder at Newcastle City Council has exposed the credit and debit card details of up to 54,000 people online. The breach was discovered on 19 July after the council hired an independent security expert to try and crack its systems.
[July 30, 2007, 9:00]
Council Of Europe Approves Cybercrime Treaty
News The Council of Europe Ministers' Deputies has approved the first international convention on cybercrime, which will set a common criminal policy on the misuse of computer networks and electronic information for terrorist or illegal activity.
[September 21, 2001, 14:09]
Council Of Europe Ratifies Cybercrime Treaty
News The convention is the fruit of four years of negotiations at the heart of the Council of Europe, a consultative assembly of 43 countries, based in Strasbourg. The secretary general of the Council of Europe, Walter Scwimmer, congratulated the states...
[March 22, 2004, 15:00]
Council IT Staff Close In On Private Sector
News Salaries paid to council IT staff are approaching private-sector levels, says new research The Society of IT Management (Socitm) research shows that council IT directors in London and the South East are being paid up to 86 percent of their...
[May 24, 2004, 12:10]
Council IT Staff Don't Respect Top Bosses
News Fewer than half of council IT staff respect their chief executives because they lack the ability to lead and inspire, according to a new survey. The IT staff in the survey also cited directors of finance and social services as those executives in...
[November 2, 2005, 11:40]
Council's SMS Wheeze For Air Quality Updates
News Bonfire Night will go with a bang for all Croydon residents this year after the council introduced air pollution text alerts to help those who are affected by the heavy smoke. Fireworks and bonfires are traditional fare of Guy Fawkes' Night on 5...
[November 4, 2005, 16:20]
Council Turns Its Back On BlackBerry
News But one council has turned its back on the Research in Motion device on the grounds that is not "future-proof", it emerged on Wednesday. County Council. Worcestershire County Council use Unlike Barnet Borough Council, there is no "alert button...
[December 8, 2005, 10:35]
Council Reaps Rewards Of Virtualisation
News Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council is rolling out a virtualisation strategy to reduce the council's power bills and deliver applications quicker. The council has created up to 45 virtual machines, with around 50 traditional servers still running...
[July 6, 2007, 9:04]
Council Spends £7m To End IT Contract
News Bedfordshire county council has revealed that the cost of terminating its IT partnership with supplier HBS was over £7m. The council announced in August that it had reached an agreement over ending the £250m IT contract with HBS after identifying...
[September 15, 2005, 16:50]
Council Workers Shown The Door Over Web Abuse
News Five council workers from the Wirral, Merseyside, have been suspended over allegations they were using council computers to download and view pornographic images. The individuals, who all work for Wirral Council's young offenders team, were removed...
[October 28, 2002, 17:14]
