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Defra running 13 projects worth £289m
News Of five projects where comparable data is available, Defra has moved back the deadlines on three since February this year. Defra's largest projects are the Animal Health Business Reform Programme, worth £98m, and the Whole Farm Approach project...
[November 17, 2008, 17:04]
Defra equips staff with 'green' laptops
News Helen Ghosh, Defra's permanent secretary, said that most carbon emissions were generated through the production of hardware. Introducing a single device, or identical kit for all staff, means a greener IT system, as well as reduced physical asset...
[July 21, 2008, 9:23]
Defra to scrap its desktops and handhelds
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) hopes to cut power bills and CO2 emissions by introducing one laptop per worker. Defra permanent secretary Helen Ghosh unveiled the plan as part of its Renew IT Programme to the...
[July 17, 2008, 10:10]
Defra deploys Vista, citing green credentials
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will start to roll out Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system from June. Although it's unclear if Defra is the first central government department to commit to a Vista deployment...
[May 16, 2008, 9:39]
Defra picks IBM for modernisation
News Under the new arrangements, IBM will manage Defra's desktop IT infrastructure and business systems and develop a range of new business systems. Defra's IT spending is currently estimated at £85m per year.
[May 28, 2004, 11:30]
Defra to scrap its desktops and handhelds
Talkback A noble effort.but it opens up a big security risk if one of them is lost or stolen. Also, if you are in a public hotspot, and running windows it is much easier to be compromised than say, any other OS on the planet.
[July 18, 2008, 13:48]
Complex IT raises rural payments costs, says NAO
News It said little has been achieved by either the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) or the agency to reduce the dependency on IT systems that are contributing to the high cost of administration.
[October 16, 2009, 14:40]
Work still needed on e-government
Talkback DEFRA: http://www.defra.gov.uk/ DirectGov is far too cluttered, I live in Scotland and in the poorest city, that being Dundee. Our council website is shit, its true. I read report after report of e-government falings yet see little improvement over...
[July 11, 2005, 19:40]
Minister's wiki experiment suspended
News It appears that the DEFRA wiki attracted more interest after it was featured on the popular Order Order blog, run by Guido Fawkes. Fawkes is unimpressed that the DEFRA wiki is now locked. Government minister David Miliband has vowed to continue...
[September 6, 2006, 16:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog This possibility had slipped the great minds at DEFRA, the Department for Enraging Farmers and Ruining Agriculture. It details the route you will take -- previously certified by a DEFRA official -- and must be shown on demand to a police officer...
[November 21, 2003, 15:05]
Government warning over hazardous IT waste
News The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is warning companies disposing of redundant IT equipment such as computer monitors that they may find themselves falling foul of new hazardous waste legislation.
[June 24, 2005, 15:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Talkback Hmm, don't know about you Rupert, but having read the DEFRA (love your interpretation of the name BTW) note linked to in your article, I find it very difficult to get pigs to form a pork pyramid. Especially when it has to move from farm to farm.
[November 22, 2003, 11:10]
Government tackles Greenwash (does that include its own spin?)
Blog Defra has just announced that its recruited a steering group to help update its green claims code: The code was devised to assist businesses to advertise their green products and services with confidence and help protect consumers from bogus or...
[February 18, 2009, 11:03]
New NPfIT minister announced
News He was previously minister for local environment, marine and animal welfare at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), having initially joined Defra in June 2003 as nature conservation and fisheries minister.
[July 23, 2007, 12:04]
A very Wiki situation
Leader The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), a name in need of a Wiki edit if ever there was one, responded by shutting down the edit function of the Wiki — slamming the door in the face of guests and gate crashers alike.
[September 7, 2006, 17:25]
Floating computers fight climate change
News The UK part of the programme is jointly funded by Defra, the MoD and the Natural Environment Research Council. The Met Office is taking part in a global programme to monitor the world's oceans to improve understanding of how they influence climate...
[November 23, 2007, 14:29]
Met Office forecasts SOA pay-off
News We have many customer relationships across government, with people like Defra [Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs], the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office] — all sorts of different agencies of government — in the same way that we...
[July 17, 2007, 17:58]
Foreign Office reports five data breaches since 2007
News The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), in its resource accounts, said it reported two incidents to the ICO during 2007-08. In a summary table of events not deemed serious enough to be reported to the ICO, Defra said that it...
[August 4, 2008, 8:59]
Why killing 80,000 desktops is worse than careless
News It also throws a question mark over some of these massive outsourcing deals that we have got going on with DEFRA, we have got one going on with MoD. Following the news on Friday that around 80,000 desktop machines may have crashed in the Department...
[November 26, 2004, 14:15]
OpenSpace expands free mapping service
News Joe Greenwood, head of product development at the OS, told ZDNet UK's sister site GC News that Bike Hike's creator has combined OS mapping data with height data from elsewhere.Defra's website has CO2 emissions and that can be integrated with OS...
[May 13, 2009, 13:01]
