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Pilot scheme launched for emergency SMS service
News It wants people who are deaf or have a hearing loss to sign up to a national pilot scheme allowing people to SMS 999 for help from their mobile phones. This pilot service therefore represents a major step forward and we hope that as many people...
[September 18, 2009, 9:54]
ID cards to be compulsory for air workers
News A pilot programme of the government's National Identity Scheme, which covers airside workers, will be compulsory at one of the two participating airports. Muirhead added that the cost of the cards would be paid for by the Home Office, and...
[November 6, 2008, 16:37]
MP: ID card scheme is 'doomed to failure'
News The UK government's ID cards scheme has attracted heavy criticism from a senior Liberal Democrat MP, following the publication last month of an official report into a pilot biometrics programme. The Liberal Democrats maintain that the study...
[January 15, 2007, 12:36]
Students learn via the Net with digitalbrain.co.uk
News Students in Bournemouth will be learning via the Net in a pilot scheme announced Wednesday.students in the borough will take part in the trial, which will see users logging on to educational content Web site digitalbrain.co.uk for step-by-step...
[October 7, 1999, 12:53]
Police launch online crime-fighting service
News The UK police service is to allow members of the public to report crimes via email and the Internet as part of a pilot scheme to make its emergency service more efficient. Sussex police will pilot the scheme, having announced a deal worth £4m with...
[February 7, 2001, 15:10]
Wi-Fi means cleaner streets for Westminster
News A pilot scheme running at the moment means CCTV cameras and noise monitoring equipment can be operated over a wireless network, allowing the system to be updated cheaply and quickly, as well as being flexible enough to spot and deal with...
[March 9, 2004, 14:05]
Government programme to get women back to IT
News The £750,000 pilot project is part of the government's Teaching Company Scheme (TCS), in which the state partially funds collaborations between companies and universities. This regional pilot will improve representation, showcase the positive...
[September 16, 2002, 14:04]
Prisoners may get email access
News The pilot scheme will see all emails sent to and from prisoners scanned to detect inappropriate content. The spokeswoman would not confirm press reports that Wandsworth Prison in south London will kick off the pilot scheme.
[January 3, 2007, 14:58]
Police to trial integrated authentication
News An initial pilot scheme will start at the end of September and run for three months. The pilot scheme will be tested with 320 police officers and 80 IT staff in two West Midlands Police buildings, to control access to 140 applications.
[September 25, 2006, 9:35]
London Midland rail to get mobile ticketing
News Speaking at a briefing on mobility in the public transport arena, Go Ahead Group technology director Dave Lynch said the company would be rolling out a pilot for the scheme by 2010. However, Lynch explained that ticketing would only go on mobile...
[August 3, 2007, 9:04]
Queen's speech to exclude arts Web site scheme
News Despite the DCMS' hesitancy about the Culture and Recreation Bill being included in the new legislative programme to be announced by the Queen tomorrow, it is confident that the pilot scheme will still go ahead.
[June 19, 2001, 15:29]
NHS addresses Euro data-sharing concerns
News The NHS has not yet decided whether it will take part in a large-scale pilot involving the sharing of confidential patient details between European countries. The pilot would take place as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework...
[February 7, 2007, 14:42]
Innovative IT use helping teachers
News The LEA is using software from Vantage Technologies in a pilot scheme. We are planning to run a pilot with 20 schools in the first instance. Rotherham LEA plans to run the pilot for one academic year, until July 2006.
[December 8, 2005, 12:45]
Patent Office considers Wiki peer review
News That the pilot peer review scheme is one of the Gowers recommendations under consideration was cautiously welcomed by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), a pressure group that campaigns against software patents.
[December 13, 2006, 16:28]
Socitm unveils 'Council of the Future' project
News It is running a pilot of the scheme over the next six months, and after an evaluation plans to launch it in full next summer. The mentoring pilot, if successful, will be rolled out on a wider basis to support what is an acknowledgement by all: that...
[October 13, 2009, 9:07]
Westminster gets all meshed up
News Another likely application for the system will be wirelessly connected CCTV cameras, which were trialled during the lengthy pilot of the project. Asked why the project has taken so long to emerge from its pilot stage, the spokesperson said it was...
[November 27, 2006, 15:21]
Anger over EC medical data-sharing scheme
News The pilot stage will take about three years to become operational and "real scale operations" should be in place by 2012. This will be followed by a large-scale pilot involving six member states. The European Commission is about to call for...
[January 26, 2007, 10:51]
Pulling together UK ID card privacy threads
Blog The European eID pilot aim is to look at how access to government services across national borders might be made easier," said the statement. The services within the pilot will not be linked to the National Identity Register in any way.
[February 9, 2009, 16:40]
British life 'unthinkable' without ID cards
News Byrne outlined several trials, including a joint Identity and Passport Service/Criminal Records Bureau pilot to demonstrate how background checks can be carried out more quickly and securely. There are also plans for an Employers' Checking Service...
[June 20, 2007, 8:53]
10,000 volunteers to trial ID cards
Talkback I would like to volunteer for this ID card Pilot scheme if possible.
[April 24, 2004, 22:06]
