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US names cybersecurity head
News The Bush administration said on Monday that it had chosen Amit Yoran, a computer-security veteran with experience in the public and private sectors, to oversee the government's cybersecurity efforts. Yoran has worked extensively in the public and...
[September 16, 2003, 9:05]
Government trails private sector in IT wages
News It shows that the salary paid by government is less than other sectors for virtually all types of IT role. About 40 percent of government organisations predicted a growth in the number of IT staff, while the figure for the health and education...
[February 12, 2008, 14:47]
No 3G spectrum trading before 2006 - government
News The government is proposing that the sectors that will make up the "first wave" of the spectrum opened up to trading will be the public wireless (mobile phone) networks, broadband fixed wireless access (such as the ill-fated 28GHz licences...
[July 15, 2002, 16:15]
North Wales launches high-speed fibre network
News Financial backing for the network — called 'FibreSpeed' — has come from both the public and private sectors. They allow the public and private sectors to share infrastructure and, through selling space to service providers, see the benefits cascade...
[November 28, 2008, 7:24]
Government urged to increase SME support
News O'Neill added that the private and public sectors should work together to use IT to transform the way government bodies communicate with the public. By 2010, more than half of the UK's gross domestic product will be generated by people who create...
[June 11, 2007, 11:04]
Privacy tsar: 277 data breaches since November
News The information commissioner has criticised the mishandling of personal data by the private and public sectors, in the light of hundreds of data breaches reported to his office over the past year. Thirty serious incidents, in both the public and...
[October 29, 2008, 12:14]
New e-commerce minister is broadband believer
News In that speech, Timms outlined a vision in which the government would act as a catalyst, bringing the public and private sectors together to work in partnership to encourage the rollout of high-speed networks.
[May 30, 2002, 14:12]
Clinton to propose Net security centre
News The private and public sectors tend to take different approaches to security issues, with companies emphasising narrow technical changes, such as better protocols at Internet-service providers. In addition, the White House is asking its science...
[February 15, 2000, 14:25]
A Year Ago: Clinton to propose Net security centre
News The private and public sectors tend to take different approaches to security issues, with companies emphasising narrow technical changes, such as better protocols at Internet-service providers. In addition, the White House is asking its science...
[February 15, 2001, 6:04]
Privacy watchdog to lead data-sharing review
News The information commissioner, Richard Thomas, will work with Professor Mark Walport, director of the Wellcome Trust, in looking at how personal information is shared and protected by the public and private sectors.
[October 26, 2007, 12:20]
UK cybersecurity push to pull in SMEs
News Intelligence analysis technology company Detica, whose clients include the UK intelligence services and other government agencies, said that it expected knowledge sharing to be funded by both the public and private sectors.
[June 26, 2009, 17:10]
NCC Vs NBC in the emerging convergence Regulation in Nigeria
Blog These industrial sectors are often referred to as ‘converging industries’. Digitalisation enables new possibilities for development and creation of services within and beyond the framework of traditional communication sectors.
[May 7, 2008, 10:53]
Homeland Security gives cyber 'early warning system' details
Blog Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk after a separate session at the RSA Conference, Greg Garcia, assistant secretary for cyber security and communications at the Department of Homeland Security, said that while information was already shared between the US...
[April 8, 2008, 22:35]
Broadband rollout pitched as a recession-buster
News However, he identified software and services as areas that would outperform other sectors, saying they were "a little harder to slow down". Gantz also said traditional IT companies would see 4.4 percent growth between 2009 and 2012, but newer...
[February 10, 2009, 16:03]
Government puts data sharing in the spotlight
News A consultation into how personal information is used and shared in the public and private sectors was launched on 12 December, 2007. Members of the public and data-privacy professionals have been invited to comment on information security, as part...
[December 12, 2007, 16:27]
Government and industry join in scheme for IT skills
News E-Skills UK is one of several independent, employer-led organisations that were granted government licences on Tuesday to handle skills development for various sectors. E-Skills UK on Tuesday called for the government, employers and educators to...
[April 9, 2003, 10:04]
Government u-turn on private finance for IT
News A report by the Treasury, PFI: meeting the investment challenge, concluded that while PFI was working in many sectors, it was not delivering value for money in IT contracts. The government has scrapped the use of controversial Private Finance...
[July 17, 2003, 15:53]
Government to reassess tech strategy
News The government added that neither the public nor private sectors were investing as much of a percentage of gross domestic product in R&D as countries including Sweden, Finland, the US or Germany. Nesta's Attacking the Recession report urged the...
[April 20, 2009, 15:27]
Government pledges boost for grid technology
News To hold our own in modern manufacturing we will need to innovate strongly by creating new high-tech manufacturing industries and upgrading traditional sectors such as steel and textiles. The government has cited grid computing as an example of...
[December 17, 2003, 12:55]
Government announces Ofcom head
News He will play a key role in the creation of Ofcom -- a new super-regulator that will oversee the UK's broadcasting, telecommunications and radiocommunications sectors. The government announced on Thursday that Lord David Currie will be the first...
[July 25, 2002, 12:28]
