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Councils Approach Deadline For Claiming E-govt Funds
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has written to councils about plans for the next round of e-government funding. Councils have until 14 June, 2004, to claim a share of £350,000 for implementing e-government over the next year, according to a...
[June 7, 2004, 11:35]
Government May Ease The Way For Wireless Broadband
News Householders may soon have much more freedom to install satellite dishes and other antennae on their houses, under proposed changes to existing planning regulations that were published on Monday by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
[April 8, 2003, 13:41]
Hyfinity Case Study: E-Fire National Project
White Papers e-Fire is a National Project, funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, under the Local Government Modernisation Programme. XML has now become the nervous system of agile e-Gov projects. Simplifying the complexity and harnessing the true...
[July 19, 2005, 0:00]
Government Rewards E-innovators
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has launched the second round of its £14m e-innovations fund, to support the development of "cutting edge" technologies among councils. A video call centre for deaf people, wireless computers for council...
[March 31, 2005, 9:40]
Local E-services Praised
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has praised councils for "tremendous progress" towards this year's e-government target in its latest annual report. Local e-government minister Phil Hope said on 4 March, 2005: "Our second year report...
[March 7, 2005, 11:15]
'Critical' Open Source Initiative To Crack Public Sector
Talkback The article is not from a press release - if you read paragraph 4 of the article you will see that the Open Source Academy is expected to be announced by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister later this month.
[April 6, 2005, 10:07]
Transforming Council Operations And Delivering One-Stop Citizen Services
White Papers Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council's partnership approach to attracting inward investment won it the Beacon Award for Fostering Business Growth in 2003, awarded each year by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to recognise outstanding...
[September 1, 2006, 0:00]
The Benefits Of CRM
White Papers This paper is one of a series describing the benefits of the e-Government National Projects programme funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Over half of English local authorities have already implemented or are planning to implement...
[July 19, 2006, 0:00]
Green Activist Slams Government's Teleworking Policy
News In particular, he criticised a report produced by the Department for Trade and Industry in 2003, entitled Telework Guidance, and a report by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister as respectively having "tokenistic references" and "only the odd...
[December 9, 2004, 13:25]
Government Promotes E-payment For Council Services
News A National Project to offer citizens the option of paying for council services electronically was launched by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Office (ODPM) on Tuesday.e-Pay, funded by £1.2m from the ODPM, aims to help councils use e...
[November 17, 2004, 13:05]
Fire Service IT Row Heats Up
News The £1bn FireControl project is being run by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and will see 46 local fire service operations rooms replaced with nine regional high-tech control centres. But the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is calling for...
[August 26, 2005, 15:20]
Government IT Briefs Still Up In The Air
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is also awaiting a decision on whether David Miliband or junior minister Phil Woolas takes on responsibility for local e-government. Tony McNulty, the new Home Office minister, is likely to take day to day...
[May 10, 2005, 15:30]
No, Minister, The Figures Don't Add Up
Leader Same with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, two in four years at the Department of International Development, none at the FCO, two at the Lord Chancellor's office. The Minister is peering at his computer.
[July 12, 2005, 13:45]
Government Continues To Stonewall Over ID Card Costs
News The office of the deputy prime minister has told MPs it is still talking to local authorities to develop a business case for authentication and verification management, which "could include the use of the identity card".
[February 20, 2006, 11:30]
Government Creates Network To Fight Hackers
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has approved the creation of nine regional IT security information sharing networks to cover all English councils, officials said on 29 September, 2005. Burnett had earlier promoted the service at an event...
[October 3, 2005, 16:25]
New Homes To Be Primed For Broadband
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has presented the building industry with several possible changes to existing regulations. This consultation is part of a cross-government drive to make the social and economic benefits of e-commerce and the...
[March 24, 2003, 16:47]
London Council Goes Wireless
News As part of a national project sponsored by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Lewisham and its supplier BT have provided a Wi-Fi (wireless local area network) template for other councils to follow, it announced on Friday.
[September 10, 2004, 15:25]
Government Urges Councils To E-innovate
News The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is offering £7m for councils to develop projects along four main themes. Local government minister Phil Hope said: "Progress towards the 2005 target for e-enabling local authority services is well under way.
[December 2, 2004, 15:35]
Government Seeks Chief Information Officer
News Andrew Stott, the deputy CIO for the e-Government Unit, is currently the interim CIO. Recruiters are busy looking for candidates to fill the position, which became available when previous CIO, Ian Watmore, was promoted to lead the Prime Minister's...
[January 30, 2006, 16:00]
Birmingham Begins Major Open Source Pilot
News The council has been given a grant amounting to hundreds of thousands of pounds by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, under the e-innovations programme. Public terminals in libraries will be shifted to Linux, as well as office systems in the...
[May 16, 2005, 17:55]
