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Government ICT Use Under Fire
News The Work Foundation report says there is a "mismatch" between frontline staff who think the people want personalised services and the public which wants choice and flexibility in services. Commenting on the results, Alexandra Jones, senior...
[March 29, 2005, 13:10]
Work Still Needed On E-government
News The public has mixed and contradictory views about the use of IT in the provision of services, according to research published by the Work Foundation. A typical response to the Work Foundation's focus group sessions was that the Internet is "good...
[July 11, 2005, 17:15]
Wikipedia Planning A DVD Version
News Jimmy Wales, the president of the Wikimedia Foundation, told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that there is still a lot of work to be done before it can be put on disk, but he expects it to be available by the end of 2005.
[April 7, 2005, 17:05]
Government 'must Engage Frontline Workers' In Reform
News The government is putting its IT modernisation agenda at risk by failing to engage frontline public sector workers, according to new research from the Work Foundation. Alexandra Jones, associate director of the Work Foundation, said in the report...
[September 27, 2005, 16:55]
Pre-paying Brits Won't Flock To 3G
News A new study from independent research group The Work Foundation casts doubt on the ability of third-generation network operators to build successful mass-market services in the near term. It concluded that despite the explosion in take-up -- 75...
[April 1, 2003, 13:34]
Oracle Quietly Works With Mozilla
News The Mozilla Foundation revealed at the FOSDEM conference in February that the database giant had hired three people to work on Mozilla Lightning. Is Oracle making a major play into the collaboration space through a partnership with the Mozilla...
[May 13, 2005, 11:45]
EclipseCon To Get CRM Treats
News The Eclipse Foundation oversees work on Eclipse software, which is a modular program that allows developers to write applications with several or plug-ins, from different vendors. The foundation has more than 600 committers — people who can...
[March 20, 2006, 8:20]
Yahoo, Google, MySpace Form OpenSocial Foundation
News Yahoo said on Tuesday that it is backing a program by rival Google to make software work fluidly across different social networks, and will create a joint foundation to promote the effort. Yahoo, Google and MySpace also said on Tuesday that they...
[March 26, 2008, 8:37]
Red Hat Hands Over Fedora Linux
News Red Hat is changing course again with its free Fedora version of Linux, announcing Friday that it will turn over copyrights and development work to an outside entity called the Fedora Foundation. The establishment of the foundation comes on the eve...
[June 6, 2005, 9:45]
Social Software: A Boon For Business?
News Social Capital and Social Software -- the latest study from The Work Foundation's iSociety research project, published on Thursday, which has studied the cultural effect of social software. Organisations have been mystified as to why ICTs have...
[May 30, 2003, 12:17]
Low-tech Bosses 'wasting' IT Investment
News ISociety, part of The Work Foundation, warns that many ICT projects are handled badly, with new technology adding to the existing work burden rather than supplanting old and less efficient methods. Our research legitimises the lay experience...
[November 20, 2003, 16:30]
UK Public Embrace IT But Shun Tech Hype
News Only a quarter of the UK adult population can be classed as "technology enthusiasts" who find new IT products fun and exciting, according to RealityIT -- Technology and Everyday Life, a study from the Work Foundation's iSociety project.
[July 24, 2002, 15:04]
Linux Foundation Tackles Power Concerns
News The Linux Foundation will work with its workgroups, identify key projects and co-ordinate resources among its members to improve this functionality in the Linux platform. The Green Linux initiative is being organised by the Linux Foundation, which...
[June 19, 2007, 11:29]
Mobile Tech Gets Cautious Praise From Aid Groups
News Speaking at the launch of a United Nations Foundation report into the impact of mobile technology on the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the developing world, Danny Quah, professor of economics at the London School of Economics...
[May 7, 2008, 16:45]
Nominet To Fund 'worthwhile' UK Internet Projects
News We are extremely excited about the types of work the foundation will be able to fund. However, she was keen to emphasise that the Nominet Foundation would not divert funding from Nominet's work on the UK's internet infrastructure and systems...
[January 17, 2008, 14:27]
Google Announces Charitable Move
News This is going to be a key area of focus for the company in 2005," said Cindy McCaffrey, who ended her position as Google's vice-president of marketing with the new year and will stay on to work part time on the foundation.
[January 4, 2005, 7:50]
Unix Users Up In Arms At Bill Gates' Knighthood
Talkback In addition, his international development work makes the Gates Foundation one of the leading philanthropic organisations of the modern age. In 2000 the Gates Foundation announced the single biggest international educational scholarship programme...
[January 27, 2004, 23:58]
Red Hat Unstitches Fedora Foundation
News When Red Hat announced the foundation in June 2005, the company said it had "the intent of moving Fedora project development work and copyright ownership of contributed code to the foundation. Red Hat has taken apart the Fedora Foundation, an...
[April 6, 2006, 10:50]
Tech Disaster Relief Comes To Dominican Republic
Blog Since May 2006, when TSF signed an agreement with the United Nations to become the first NGO formally partnering with the UN in emergency response telecommunications work, the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation Partnership...
[November 5, 2007, 10:05]
Mozilla Preps More Updates
News Due to the impending update, the Mozilla Foundation has asked developers to temporarily halt work on localising the software for non-English language markets, a move that has drawn criticism from some adherents.
[July 18, 2005, 10:05]
