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Public-sector workers may barter labour online
News Downing Street policy advisers are working on plans for an online market place that would allow public sector workers to sell their labour and skills to local authorities and government departments. It would cover a range of goods and services, but...
[August 24, 2004, 15:45]
Public to get online access to UK law
News Giving the public access to consolidated legislation is also a prime business objective, and it is planned to make an Internet-based service available during spring of next year. He said there are proposals for the development of two enquiry...
[June 11, 2004, 12:10]
Public sector spends up on outsourcing
Talkback I have found this article on public sector outsourcing very useful for my research on public sector outsourcing in the UK. Hi, I would thus be very much grateful if you could let me have a copy of the full research report.
[January 24, 2005, 12:14]
Public-private partnership boosts rural ADSL
News Over 60,000 more households and 6,000 extra small businesses in Wiltshire will be able to access ADSL broadband by the end of this year due to a £7m partnership between BT and the public sector. This follows the successful ActNow project in...
[July 28, 2003, 17:41]
Public in the dark about Y2K
News The survey, commissioned by IT giant ICL, showed one in three of the general public believe the millennium bug is a threat to their personal safety. The poll, which surveyed 596 members of the public and 200 IT specialists in January, revealed an...
[February 2, 1999, 15:16]
Public Sector Network live in next 12 months
News The Public Sector Network will be working with its services available for purchase next year, according to the programme's director. The PSN is designed to change the way government organisations buy and use voice and data networks by creating a...
[September 28, 2009, 8:18]
Public sector losing focus?
Talkback This story just demonstates how the public sector has completely lost focus as to who they serve. If this amount of money had been wasted on such a project in the private sector the persons responsible would have been quite rightly sacked.
[November 13, 2006, 14:48]
Public sector IT demand on the up
News The demand for IT workers in the public sector has soared, according to figures released on Wednesday by an employment trends research company. Statistics from the CWJobs quarterly IT skills index showed the number of permanent IT jobs in the...
[March 2, 2005, 16:05]
TechNet Webcast: Public Key Infrastructure Enhancements in Windows Vista and Windows Server Code-Named "Longhorn" (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast describes the enhancements made to the Microsoft Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in Windows Vista and in the next release of Windows Server code-named "Longhorn". The webcast provides a detailed demonstration of the enhancements to the...
[February 17, 2007, 0:00]
Public sector spends up on outsourcing
News New research shows that public-sector buying of outsourcing is concentrated more on IT outsourcing than business processes The latest research from Kable has highlighted a massive increase in public sector outsourcing, with IT contracts driving the...
[June 28, 2004, 16:25]
Public Access Desktop
Downloads Use Public Access Desktop to make a foolproof workstation easily and safely used in any public place, where people have free access to it, but nobody of them can configure the system or clutter the hard disk with garbage (whether accidentally or...
[June 19, 2008, 8:00]
Public Survey Anyone
Talkback According to Jaqubooti and her "Not fit for purpose" predecessors the great British public are broadly in favour of this nightmare. I challenge them to put the following question to them as is: Where 1 is very much in favour and 5 is very much...
[October 22, 2008, 18:08]
TechNet Webcast: A More Secure and Well-Managed Infrastructure (Part 6 of 18): Public Key Infrastructure (Level 300)
White Papers The webcast covers Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), starting with a look at how PKI can address identity security issues. This webcast addresses network security issues. The webcast also discusses design points, multi...
[December 7, 2005, 23:00]
Public sector spending to boost rural broadband
News The e-commerce minister, Stephen Timms, has announced several initiatives to improve the take-up of broadband by the public sector, particularly in the regions. The new measures are part of the government's strategy of using public sector demand...
[June 26, 2002, 17:04]
Public shows caution over online services
News The public is reserving judgement on the idea of taking crucial public services online, according to a newly published survey. In response to the question: 'Do you think switching as many public services and facilities as possible online is a good...
[July 6, 2009, 15:35]
Public sector gets cut-price PCs
News The Government has struck a deal with IT suppliers that will allow the public sector to buy hardware with up to a 45 percent discount. The deals are available to all public-sector customers. Earlier this year an online auction saved 12 public...
[August 30, 2006, 17:05]
Public sector workers 'should get subsidised broadband'
News Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers would be given cut-price high-speed Internet connections at home as part of a series of radical proposals published on Tuesday by Centre for Reform, a UK think tank.
[June 24, 2003, 12:31]
Public sector panned over approach to IT projects
News It was a view echoed by Richard Bacon, a member of the parliamentary spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee and a fierce critic of the £12.7bn programme to modernise NHS IT. In the public sector you get this willingness to grind onwards...
[March 27, 2009, 9:30]
Public sector mobile technology explosion predicted
News Public sector spending on ICT for mobile workers is set to increase by nearly five times over the next decade, according to research from market analyst Kable. Kable expects dramatic growth from a market where mobile workers already account for 1.1...
[March 21, 2005, 16:20]
Public sector wins new volume discounts from Microsoft
News As part of a mooted new three-year deal, Microsoft will offer a software and support package at volume discount rates across the UK's public sector. The MoU works by pooling public sector volume licensing purchases to trigger bigger levels of...
[August 18, 2004, 10:25]
