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Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
News The Home Computing Initiative is one of a series of important measures in place under the banner of the Government's Digital Strategy, which helps tackle the digital divide for employees on lower incomes.
[March 22, 2006, 17:05]
Government backs grid computing with £1m
News IECnet - the Inter-Enterprise Computing Knowledge Transfer Network - is a collaborative project between IT industry body Intellect and the National e-Science Centre. Parsons, of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, summed the problem up in may...
[August 10, 2005, 15:35]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback 17th of March 2005 HCI gets a major boost from the Government, 23 March 2006 Government pull the plug,As someone who works within the Hci with Charities and Not for profit companies this is a major blow.
[March 23, 2006, 11:02]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback It's a Government Initiative. I work for an HCI Provider too. If they decide to scrap it to pay for a war in Iraq, or to help Gordon Brown's PM credentials, then there's nothing we can do about it. This whole thing stinks.
[March 23, 2006, 10:55]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback I run a HCI business which helped the government to reach its digital Britain strategy. As the chancellor has now removed this tax exemption with almost immediate effect I will have to lay off my 5 staff today - I am sure they will not be voting...
[March 23, 2006, 6:15]
Government backs grid computing with £1m
Talkback If you're interested in learning more about grid computing, my company subscribes to reports published by the 451 group (www.the451.com). I think they publish detailed reports every few months and tend to concentrate on a specific industry.
[August 11, 2005, 9:18]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Where I work, we have all just signed up for this. Hundreds of people were just getting ready to go and collect their shiny new PCs when the certificates arrived. I can't imagine what the department right in the middle of arranging all this is...
[March 23, 2006, 21:08]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Its crazy. As a small company it was initially difficult to find a suitable provider. Now they are finally available he has withdrawn it. We are waiting the 6 weeks for our licence so despite getting a high percentage of employees interested the...
[March 23, 2006, 11:37]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback I run the rewards and benefits dept for a major menswear company. In December last year, I passed this by the board of directors, who wanted to go ahead with HCI, as a benefit for those who didn't have children (so didn't benefit from childcare...
[March 23, 2006, 11:45]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback I've always thought that the HCI initiative was ill conceived as a way to address the digital divide between lower income groups and others and welcome the rethink. The cruel irony of the HCI scheme was that those on, or just above minimum wage...
[March 26, 2006, 20:21]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback The HCI was a great idea in it's simplicity! Now it's gone. I'll have tyo go back to researching dry bumming on google for a living now.
[March 23, 2006, 11:49]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback By scrapping HCI (Home Computing Initiative - www.dti.gov.uk/hci) without warning or consultation, he has just wrecked the businesses and jobs of hundreds of those working in this area. Gordon's budget will cost hundreds of people their jobs.
[March 23, 2006, 10:59]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Fair enough, it has benefitted many and there are few homes without a computer. Seems to me this now brings everybody back to a level playing field when buying a computer. If anything he would have been better by removing VAT on computers and...
[March 23, 2006, 10:20]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback This is ill-though through and will now result in many job losses across the HCI Sector, so much for a vote winner for Brown’s budget. Let him try and earn a real living.
[March 23, 2006, 9:47]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback Its crazy. As a small company it was initially difficult to find a suitable provider. Now they are finally available he has withdrawn it. We are waiting the 6 weeks for our licence so despite getting a high percentage of employees interested the...
[March 23, 2006, 10:24]
Government pulls support for Home Computing Initiative
Talkback This is just great. I have committed to this scheme for the next three years but it doesn't kick in until 1st April and I have little chance of getting the machine in 5 days. Looks like I would have been better off buying a machine on interest free...
[March 22, 2006, 21:22]
Gov't departments tout 'green' IT credentials
News Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to revolutionise its approach to green computing. Philip Secretan, head of sustainable computing for HMRC, outlined the changes, which include:
[May 12, 2008, 9:12]
White House unveils cloud computing initiative
News The Obama administration on Tuesday announced a far-reaching and long-term cloud-computing policy intended to cut costs on infrastructure and reduce the environmental impact of US government computing systems.
[September 16, 2009, 13:25]
Siemens makes a million bringing computing home
News Siemens claims to have saved nearly £1m by taking up the government's home computing initiative. The UK government introduced the Home Computing Initiative in 1999 in an attempt to encourage companies to offer PCs to their workforce.
[April 16, 2004, 17:45]
Government pledges boost for grid technology
News The government has cited grid computing as an example of technology that should receive more public funding as part of an action plan to boost innovation among UK businesses. Grid computing is one of the technologies singled out as an important...
[December 17, 2003, 12:55]
