Previous
German District Council Gains Single View of Income and Expenditure
White Papers The district council worked with Infokom, a regional IT solutions provider. As part of a pilot project conducted by the government of North-Rhine Westphalia, the District of Guetersloh in Germany wanted a software environment for switching over to...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Dell Case Study: Bergstrasse District Council
White Papers The Bergstrasse district in Germany wanted to provide each pupil with a notebook for use in the classroom and at home. The Bergstrasse district deployed Dell for its solution and implemented Dell Vostro 1500 notebooks with an education interface...
[June 18, 2009, 14:52]
Integration Solution Helps Residents Access All District Council's 22 Business Units
White Papers Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council is rated an excellent local authority and continually seeks new ways of delivering better public services. In 2003, the council surveyed the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) market to find a solution...
[July 3, 2007, 1:00]
Braintree Council pilots Siebel at top speed
News Braintree District Council has become the first local authority to implement Siebel 50 - a version of Siebel Public Sector aimed at smaller organisations. Siebel 50 has transformed the efficiency and effectiveness of our service delivery," said...
[September 28, 2005, 17:55]
Vienna hobbles open-source migration
News The Vienna district council on Wednesday formally approved a budget of €8m (£6.3m) for migrating Windows 2000 systems to Vista and Office 2007, according to a report from Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), the Austrian national public service...
[June 6, 2008, 11:37]
Satellite tech tracks Cornwall's binmen
News The operations manager at Caradon District Council, Richard Isbell, said the technology has been easy to implement and use, and other council departments are now looking to use it. Caradon and North Cornwall District Councils have been using...
[November 14, 2008, 6:30]
Local authorities slam Action 2000's naming 'n shaming
News John McGowan, senior policy officer at Warwick District Council slammed the government, Action 2000 and the audit commission for its name and shame policy and accused them of using local authorities as whipping boys.
[July 12, 1999, 15:40]
A Year Ago: Local authorities slam Action 2000's naming 'n shaming
News John McGowan, senior policy officer at Warwick District Council slammed the government, Action 2000 and the audit commission for its name and shame policy and accused them of using local authorities as whipping boys.
[July 13, 2000, 8:00]
Digital rights group slams e-voting
News Electronic scanning technology to count ballot papers (Bedford, Breckland, Dover, South Bucks, Stratford-on-Avon District Council and Warwick District Council) Digital rights activists have attacked the UK government over its plan to trial e-voting...
[January 31, 2007, 12:15]
Voters to get election results via text
News South Oxfordshire District Council is giving voters the option of receiving local election results as a text message. The council's ICT manager, Simon Turner, said in a statement: "The system was quick to install, and works seamlessly with our...
[May 3, 2007, 15:46]
Wi-Fi means cleaner streets for Westminster
News Westminster City Council will be unwiring the Soho district of London in an attempt to cut costs and cut crime, it was announced on Monday. The 'Wireless City' project also means council officers can access their network on the move or on-site...
[March 9, 2004, 14:05]
City of Onkaparinga Reaps Rewards From IBM Global Financing
White Papers City of Onkaparinga was formed by amalgamation of the former Cities of Happy Valley and Noarlunga and part of the District Council of Willunga. The new city's IT department wanted to deliver a platform that would provide a consistent level of...
[September 6, 2007, 1:00]
District Verifies Delivery of a Green Energy-Efficient School
White Papers When the North Clackamas School District outside of Portland, Oregon received voter approval to build a new high school, they decided to ensure the building would offer the best in energy efficient and environmentally friendly design.
[November 19, 2008, 23:00]
Pipex WiMax reaches Warwick
News The number two rollout will take place in the city of Warwick, with the WISP (wireless ISP) working with National Grid Wireless, Warwick District Council and Intel to set up WiMax connectivity over three sites.
[January 19, 2007, 9:00]
UK councils dump Windows for Linux
News To date, open source has made slow progress onto public sector desktops, with only Penwith District Council in Cornwall and Scottish Central Police moving all their PCs to Star Office desktop software over a year ago.
[June 6, 2003, 13:52]
Chancellor boosts UK IT industry hopes
News But Ian Grundy, principle planning officer for Ashford District Council does not see how current laws can be improved. Tony Burton, assistant director of the Council for the Protection of Rural England rejects the idea that planning application red...
[November 4, 1998, 16:40]
BT to revitalise rural broadband trials
News Instead, BT's test will involve signing on sponsors with an interest in local development: the Highlands and Islands Enterprise; Gwynedd County Council; Denbighshire County Council, together with IT consultants The ITC; the East of England...
[August 14, 2002, 16:23]
'Critical' open source initiative to crack public sector
News This project, which will be run by Shepway District Council, will be similar to Sourceforge.net, a Web site which catalogues thousands of open source applications. Various organisations are involved in the Open Source Academy including Bristol...
[April 5, 2005, 17:10]
Chip-and-bin plan launched
News The technology will allow us to determine recycling rates in any given size of area throughout the district, which in turn will help us plan future recycling policies. The five month trial involves inserting electronic microchips into 4,000 wheelie...
[September 19, 2005, 9:35]
Tessera aims to wrap up IPO
News A year from now, the company will square off against Samsung Electronics in an intellectual-property lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. A few months later, Tessera filed an action in district court and with...
[October 30, 2003, 14:45]
