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Scottish Executive shuns e-services
News The Scottish Executive is reluctant to provide online services for recording births deaths and marriages, according to its latest consultation paper on e-registration. Scotland's registrar general recognises that registration by telephone, fax or...
[January 10, 2005, 16:55]
Young Scots offered interactive democracy
News The Scottish Executive is attempting to get young children more involved in democracy through a new Web site, it announced on Thursday. Scottish education minister Peter Peacock said: "We must do all we can to find new ways to encourage children to...
[September 24, 2004, 14:15]
Scottish IT skills grant launched
News The Scottish Executive has announced it is to give every Scottish adult £100 towards brushing up their tech skills. The Executive already offers the country's low earners up to £200 each to help them learn new work-related skills.
[August 1, 2005, 12:20]
Highland boost for broadband coverage
News Some of the most remote parts of the UK are now getting broadband coverage, says the Scottish Executive The Scottish Executive is part funding a broadband programme for the Cairngorms which covers some of the most remote and mountainous areas in...
[August 11, 2005, 15:05]
Open source awareness growing in Scotland
News A member of the Scottish Parliament claimed on Thursday that there is growing support for open source software in the Scottish public sector, but warned that awareness in the Scottish Executive and Parliament is still limited.
[August 26, 2005, 8:50]
Scottish schools get help with StarOffice
News The Scottish Executive has signalled a possible move away from Microsoft Office with the signing on Thursday of a deal that will enable it to manage licences for Sun's StarOffice7 suite of office applications.
[May 6, 2004, 18:35]
Drive to broadband-enable Scotland is launched
News The Scottish Executive is inviting telecoms operators to bid for a contract to provide high-speed Internet services to Scotland's broadband black spots. It's likely that the winning bid for the contract will cost the Scottish Executive several...
[August 10, 2004, 17:30]
Scots demand government cash for broadband rollout
News At a press conference, Kenny MacAskill -- shadow transport minister and a member of the Scottish Parliament -- urged the Scottish Executive to invest in broadband rollout in the same way as countries such as Norway and Sweden have.
[September 23, 2002, 15:06]
Public sector's IT waste disposal
News The public sector must start sharing more IT systems to drive down costs for the taxpayer, as unnecessary duplication is "no longer sustainable" according to the Scottish Executive. Scots Connect services are already being delivered to more than 8...
[November 28, 2005, 15:45]
SDSL reaches Glasgow
News The launch of this new SDSL service has the potential to deliver enormous benefits to businesses in Glasgow and, ultimately, across the whole of the Scottish business community," said Dr Richard Callison, chief executive of Scotland On Line, in a...
[September 26, 2002, 17:00]
Scotland loses as .scot.uk bid is turned down
News The official registry for UK domain names has rejected an application to create a new second-level domain (SLD), .scot.uk, intended to identify Scottish businesses online. ScotNom, whose members include Cap Gemini, Ernst and Young and Scotsman.com...
[May 4, 2001, 14:36]
Scottish broadband sparks complaint
News A spokeswoman for Scottish & Southern told ZDNet UK that the company's chief executive, Ian Marchant, will be meeting with Ofcom next week and he will be complaining about BT's behaviour. Scottish & Southern, a power company trialling broadband...
[November 7, 2003, 13:05]
Scottish Power to launch online bill payments
News Scottish Power is to join with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in an Internet joint venture offering a range of financial, utility and maintenance services in one package. Thus is majority-owned by Scottish Power.
[January 12, 2000, 14:59]
Scotland invests £4.3m to improve software quality
News ITI Techmedia's Software Integrity Engineering research and development programme will receive an investment of £4.3m over three years from the Scottish Executive, and will focus on developing enhancement tools which are applicable to error...
[February 5, 2008, 15:26]
Cash boost for Scottish broadband
News The Scottish Executive announced on Tuesday that it is allocating £24m to a plan to accelerate rollout, stimulate competition and improve access to broadband, aiming for 70 percent ADSL coverage north of the border by the end of 2003.
[December 4, 2002, 12:36]
Scotland signs up to e-procurement
News The First Minister for Scotland, Jack McConnell, has announced an out-sourced e-procurement service for the Scottish Executive, the devolved government for Scotland, potentially worth £15bn in public sector transactions.
[March 27, 2002, 11:23]
BT's broadband push leaves rivals stranded
Talkback They even had the Scottish Executive dancing to their tune. BT had that well planned, didn't they? Millions were spent on fostering community ventures through wireless and satellite options because BT were slow to roll things out.
[May 9, 2004, 19:53]
LogicaCMG wins Scottish Parliament IT contract
News Scottish Parliament chief executive Paul Grice said the cost savings demonstrate the parliament's commitment to using public funds as effectively as possible. The Scottish Parliament has signed a deal with technology-services company LogicaCMG for...
[August 30, 2007, 14:05]
Sun shuts down Scottish manufacturing
News The manufacturing arm of Linlithgow accounts for approximately 15-17 percent of Sun's Scottish workforce. Other functions of the Linlithgow site, such as the Remote Monitoring Centre, the Sun Solution Centre, the IT Networks Operations Centre and...
[December 12, 2008, 11:24]
Scotland to get blanket broadband coverage
News Broadband Internet access will be available from every one of BT's local telephone exchanges in Scotland by the end of 2005, thanks to a multi-million pound subsidy provided by the Scottish Executive.
[April 25, 2005, 17:25]
