Welsh Assembly Blocks School Emails
News The Welsh Assembly has halted its pledge to provide every school pupil in Wales with a personal email address because of security fears. After liaison with the DfES, we decided to review our pledge," confirmed the Welsh Assembly spokeswoman.
[September 3, 2001, 16:29]
Green Light For Wales ICT Network
News The European Commission has given the go-ahead to the Welsh Assembly Government's project, which will be one of the first of its kind in the UK, designed to provide a unified, high bandwidth, ICT network for public sector organisations in Wales.
[June 25, 2007, 17:15]
IT-procurement Deal To Save Wales £6m
News The Welsh Assembly Government announced a new IT framework agreement on Wednesday that will enable public-sector organisations across Wales to join forces and buy common items, such as PCs, laptops and printers.
[August 10, 2007, 9:30]
Wales Becomes Supercomputing Player
News The Welsh Assembly is putting supercomputing at the heart of a multi-million pound science and computing department announced last week. It has already been built in collaboration with IBM and is currently being tested at a laboratory in Cheshire...
[January 11, 2005, 11:25]
The Welsh To Conjure Up New Tricks For Merlin
News The Welsh Assembly is considering new initiatives for its ICT transformation programme The document covers the previous efforts of the Welsh Assembly in providing an ICT infrastructure for the country, emphasising the role of Merlin, a 10 year...
[October 25, 2004, 13:25]
Backlash Hits Wireless Broadband Auction
News Several members of the Welsh Assembly are understood to be keen to try and derail the auction, which is due to start in May, and a leading US wireless broadband specialist has urged e-envoy Andrew Pinder to intervene to stop what he called "this...
[February 6, 2003, 16:12]
Welsh Broadband Kicks England Into Touch
News The rest of the UK has a lot to learn from Wales when it comes to making a success of broadband, according to Andrew Davies, Welsh Assembly minister for economic development and ICT. Unlike the UK government, which has put its faith in market...
[December 3, 2002, 11:05]
Government Defends Wireless Broadband Plans
News Several members of the Welsh Assembly are reported to be furious over the structure of the forthcoming 3.4GHz auction and are even considering intervening to block the bidding process. Members of the Welsh Assembly are not convinced, though.
[February 4, 2003, 16:11]
Wales To Get Yuletide Broadband Push
News Andrew Davies, e-minister for Wales, said: "Providing broadband access is one of the Welsh Assembly Government's priorities as we transform Wales from the highly industrialised economy of the last century to a knowledge-based economy for the...
[December 24, 2004, 10:25]
Welsh Schools Adopt Open Source Email
News We're having conversations with the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly at the moment. A Welsh county council has brokered a deal to provide open source email to up to 40,000 pupils and teachers.
[September 4, 2006, 14:35]
Wales Gets High-tech Jobs Boost
News Centerprise qualified for a Regional Selective Assistance grant from the Welsh Assembly to open its site in Wales. The Welsh economic development minister, Andrew Davies, said: "I am delighted that we have been able to assist Centerprise with their...
[February 24, 2003, 14:32]
BT Boss Wants Government Support Not Subsidies
News The Welsh Assembly and the Welsh Development Agency have committed £43m to help get broadband into businesses and homes in Wales. BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen believes the government has a huge role to play in the uptake of broadband -- but as...
[September 11, 2002, 14:15]
Judges Reveal Best (and Worst) Politicians' Websites
News Adam Price, who claims to have kicked off plans for the Labour/Plaid Cymru Welsh Assembly coalition on his blog, was presented with the Best MP Website award. Flynn, labelled "Labour's Welsh Terrier" by the BBC's Nick Assinder, is getting familiar...
[November 9, 2007, 10:00]
Voters To Get Election Results Via Text
News In the elections, 129 Scottish Parliament seats, 32 Scottish unitary councils, all 60 seats of the Welsh Assembly and 312 local authorities in England are being contested. South Oxfordshire District Council is giving voters the option of receiving...
[May 3, 2007, 15:46]
BT Spurns Wireless Broadband Auction
News The Welsh Assembly is also furious with the way that the Radiocommunications Agency split Britain into seven regional and seven metropolitan licences plus one for Northern Ireland, as this distribution bundled parts of Wales in with areas of England.
[February 20, 2003, 12:05]
BT Outsourcing Move Brings Strike Threats
News In a statement, the CWU said it is seeking to have the issue raised in the house of Commons, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh assembly. Telecoms giant BT has given the go-ahead to its plans to outsource directory enquiries to India.
[March 7, 2003, 14:22]
Bankers Borrow From Industrialists
Blog Six Sigma developed by Motorola and famously sponsored by Jack Welsh at GE has been used by ABN AMRO to implement a consolidated approach for global deployment of new systems. When in 1913 Henry Ford invented the first large moving assembly line...
[March 17, 2008, 13:54]
