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Gov't eyes £10m savings from switched-off PCs
News The Office of Government Commerce has urged public-sector workers to turn off their PCs overnight to help cut carbon emissions and costs. The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is the Treasury office responsible for driving efficiency in public...
[May 23, 2008, 9:15]
Government revamps IT-project delivery
News The Office of Government Commerce is introducing measures which could significantly influence the execution of large IT projects. The move, outlined in the Office of Government Commerce's (OGC's) newly published annual report, is part of an effort...
[October 31, 2008, 11:43]
OpenOffice makes government inroads
News Two significant government bodies, the Israel Department of Commerce and the City of Austin, Texas, are moving toward replacing Microsoft Office installations with the OpenOffice.org productivity suite.
[December 18, 2003, 13:25]
Gates previews Vista
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates claims the bold promises of e-commerce and e-government made in the early 1990s are finally ready to be made a reality with a new "wave" of software development that can be built on the foundation of Windows Vista and...
[September 14, 2005, 6:55]
A Year Ago: RIP gets roasting from former government adviser
News The Institute of Directors(IoD) head of e-business policy, Professor Jim Norton -- formerly head of the Cabinet Office's Performance of Innovation Unit which produced the definitive government report on e-commerce last September -- is the latest...
[June 12, 2001, 6:28]
RIP comes in for roasting from former government adviser
News The Institute of Directors(IoD) head of e-business policy, Professor Jim Norton -- formerly head of the Cabinet Office's Performance of Innovation Unit which produced the definitive government report on e-commerce last September -- is the latest...
[June 12, 2000, 11:58]
Government reports sharp cyber-crime rise
News Internet credit-card fraud is a flourishing industry, contrary to the assurances of e-commerce merchants, according to official crime figures released by the British government Tuesday. This is the first time substantial evidence of Internet...
[January 20, 2000, 10:20]
Archaic PCs to blame for government e-commerce mess
News Recent measurements by the Office of Government Commerce indicate that at present approximately half of low value transactions are conducted electronically," said Smith on 20 July. Most government departments have antiquated IT systems.some are ten...
[August 17, 2001, 8:30]
Wider role for e-commerce minister
News Alexander -- based within the department of trade and industry (DTI) -- will run e-commerce, while Gus McDonald of the cabinet office is still in charge of e-government. There are also plans to make government services available online at post...
[June 19, 2001, 14:07]
Tories: Government is falling behind in open source
News In 2004, the Office of Government Commerce released a report, titled "Open Source Software Trials in Government", which said that open source was "a viable and credible alternative to proprietary software".
[January 28, 2009, 12:41]
Government urged to cut consultancy costs
News Even worse, departments and the Office of Government Commerce do not know how much is being spent on consultancy. The committee's findings are based on a report by the National Audit Office published last year, as well as evidence from government...
[June 19, 2007, 13:38]
Report: UK trails US, Europe in e-commerce
News Secretary general of the ISPA (Internet Service Providers' Association) Nicholas Lansman believes the government must take part of the blame for the attitude of British firms. The government can only give a wake-up call to business if business has...
[August 23, 1999, 8:50]
The Manx turn from Unix to Windows
News Because the Isle of Man is not part of the UK -- it is a self-governing crown dependency that is able to make its own laws -- purchasing decisions can be made independently of the UK's Office of Government Commerce, which recently issued report...
[December 1, 2004, 17:10]
Tony Blair warns Britain's business
News As well as stressing the need for co-operation between industry and government with a co-regulatory approach to the issues facing e-trade, the report also highlighted the role of BT and the banks in pushing e-commerce forward.
[September 13, 1999, 16:32]
Jane Wakefield: E-ambassador, you are spoiling us
News Why we need three e-commerce gurus in government is a question that Tony's clan has never answered. In his first public appearance so far -- at ISPA's (Internet Service Providers' Association) parliamentary forum on Tuesday (which by the way I was...
[January 21, 2000, 13:20]
A Year Ago: Tony Blair warns Britain's business
News As well as stressing the need for co-operation between industry and government with a co-regulatory approach to the issues facing e-trade, the report also highlighted the role of BT and the banks in pushing e-commerce forward.
[September 13, 2000, 7:01]
Government defends new cyber-snooping powers
News On the day the government published its long-awaited E-communications Bill (formerly the E-Commerce Bill), Home Office minister Charles Clarke and e-Minister Patricia Hewitt stoutly defended the decision to push through controversial law...
[November 19, 1999, 16:22]
Jane Wakefield - ISPs of the world unite!
News And how's this for good measure: by assuming a suspect could hand over keys to the authorities in the first place, the government was reversing the burden of proof (the old assumed-innocent-until-proven-guilty dictum) and fallen foul of its own...
[November 19, 1999, 17:07]
Surveillance: Government plans e-surveillance - Part 2
News The name of the bill has been changed from e-commerce to e-communications, which critics take to indicate the government is more concerned with how communication is used, rather than how e-commerce should be developed.
[September 27, 1999, 11:25]
RIP Bill comes under fresh attack
News RIP is essentially a rehashed version of the widely criticised proposals originally included within the government's broader E-commerce Bill. A forthcoming government bill concerning Internet communication directly contravenes the European...
[March 22, 2000, 11:50]
