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Socitm unveils 'Council of the Future' project
News Public sector IT professionals' organisation Socitm has launched a project aimed at increasing its members' influence over the future shape of public services. In his opening address to the conference, Socitm president Steve Palmer encouraged...
[October 13, 2009, 9:07]
Socitm appoints new president
News Socitm, the professional association for public-sector ICT managers, has appointed a new president. According to political and social analyst Tony Travers, who spoke at Socitm's AGM, local government can expect continued pressure for service...
[April 30, 2007, 17:38]
Socitm president rethinks open-source 'lag' comment
News Richard Steel told ZDNet UK that a blog post he made on Wednesday as president of Socitm, which aims to promote the efficient use of information technology in the public sector, may have been too strong.
[February 27, 2009, 14:45]
Socitm merges with charity IT association
News Charity IT Resource Alliance (Citra) members will automatically become Socitm members on 1 January 2009. Its name will continue with a new third-sector special interest group within Socitm. David Clayden, director of strategic information for the...
[December 12, 2008, 11:03]
Socitm urges councils to go green
News the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm) says the technology industry's green credentials are not as good as is widely thought, and that it accounts for about two percent of global CO2 emissions.
[December 4, 2007, 15:02]
Socitm: Council websites getting better
News The number of visitors to council websites increased by more than 10 percent in the past 12 months, according to the 2008 Better Connected report from local government IT body the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm).
[March 5, 2008, 8:48]
Socitm aims to promote IT professionalism
News The move forms part of Socitm's long-term ambition to become the professional society for public-sector IT staff. Although Socitm provides a number of professional development services for its members, it has acknowledged that these could be better...
[January 7, 2008, 8:29]
Socitm names new president
News Writing on the Socitm president's blog on Thursday, Steel said: "I also feel honoured to now be president of such a well-respected organisation that has achieved so much in its history, and optimistic about our future.
[April 30, 2008, 10:49]
Socitm calls on councils for web-accessibility checks
News Councils must make methodical, regular tests on websites to ensure they are accessible to all, according to a Socitm report. A world denied, which supplements the Society of Information Technology Management's (Socitm's) March 2008 Better Connected...
[April 21, 2008, 9:02]
Socitm chief resigns
News Mountain's departure comes as the Society of IT Management (Socitm) completes the first phase of a corporate review, launched towards the end of 2007. Socitm said that the review, carried out in conjunction with consultants KPMG, aims to "shape the...
[January 14, 2008, 10:41]
SOCITM's repositioning
Talkback Talking of brown envelopes, it was interesting to see SOCITM's immediate response to this - see http://tinyurl.com/al5vu3 SOCITM has ignored the Tory suggestion to use more Open Source software only to promote the suitability of a second-tier...
[January 29, 2009, 10:39]
Socitm calls on councils to spend more on 'change'
News In a policy paper released on Thursday, Socitm said that operational service budgets are currently split, so that 90 percent goes on operations, with just 10 percent on changing systems. Martin Ferguson, head of policy at Socitm, told GC News that...
[November 24, 2009, 11:52]
Socitm to probe accessibility of council websites
News Socitm has said that its insight team will produce a special supplement on the subject as part of its annual Better Connected report on local-authority websites, due to be published in early March. Socitm has invited the Public Sector Web...
[February 5, 2008, 14:04]
Socitm pushes IT security programme
News Mark Brett, who is leading the project for Socitm, said: "Electronic networks and information systems are an essential part of citizens' daily lives and are fundamental to the success of the EU economy.
[July 2, 2007, 17:19]
Socitm: Cloud's more revolutionary than the PC
News While the PC may have given managers their first taste of business computing through spreadsheets and word processors, cloud computing's combination of broad information sources with easy-to-use processing power — without the need for significant...
[February 24, 2009, 9:46]
Socitm calls for increased council IT spend
News The Society of IT Management has called for an increase in council spending on IT, despite the prospect of tightening finances. The public-sector IT organisation has made the case for new investment to coincide with the publication of its IT Trends...
[January 26, 2009, 8:27]
Offender-tracking system scrapped due to costs
News Public-sector IT body Socitm spoke out in the wake of the incident and condemned the government's track record on big IT projects as "embarrassing". Socitm vice president Steve Hopson told ZDNet.co.uk's sister site, silicon.com: "I would describe...
[January 10, 2008, 7:55]
Newham CIO sheds light on Microsoft relationship
Blog Richard Steel, the chief information officer of Newham Borough Council, and president of the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm), created quite a stir on the Socitm blog last week when he wrote that open source software "lags...
[March 3, 2009, 12:15]
Whose Responsibility?
Talkback Typical bleating from SOCITM and all too typical of IT/Computing representative groups. SocITM needs to be challenging its own membership rather than sitting back waiting for Councillors to become IT friendly.
[March 20, 2007, 10:58]
Local gov't CIOs to shape national IT policy
News The Local Government CIO Council met for the first time on 1 April after being set up by local government IT group the Society of IT Management (Socitm). President of Socitm, Rose Crozier, said the new group would allow local CIOs to make a...
[April 3, 2008, 8:57]
