A new company has been set up to help police forces to improve their information technology and get better value for money from contracts. The Police ICT Company is currently jointly owned by the Association of Police Authorities and the Home Office but will be handed over to police and crime commissioners following elections in [...]
Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude announced today that CloudStore, the online appstore of the Government’s G-Cloud framework for cloud-based ICT services, is open for business. CloudStore offers the public sector a cheaper, quicker and more transparent way to procure the services they need, including email, word processing, system hosting, enterprise resource planning, electronic records management, [...]
Sunderland’s Cloud is expected to reduce its own operational costs by £1.4m annually over the next five years, in the delivery of IT services through a reduction in hardware, software, maintenance and improved IT management. The Cloud will also provide a low cost, accessible and secure platform for use across Sunderland. It will allow residents [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | November 9, 2011 While at the Gartner Symposium in Barcelona, I had a stream of meetings with government clients from several European countries who are contemplating the development of private clouds. In some cases, these clouds are seen as the end result of a consolidation process resulting from a decision [...]
This Strategic Implementation Plan on ICT planning and deployment and provides a reference for central government and is designed to be read alongside the Government ICT Strategy. The Government’s ICT Strategy and Strategic Implementation Plan will deliver better public services for less cost. Through reuse and sharing of our ICT assets, we will improve productivity [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | October 24, 2011 This morning I sat in a panel on technology innovation in the context of the ACT-IAC Executive Leadership Conference, held in Williamsburg, Virginia. The panel, which was moderated by Rob Atkinson (President of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation), featured Lisa Schlosser (Deputy CIO at OMB), Peter [...]
Francis Maude today launched a detailed plan for the implementation of the Government’s new ICT Strategy which is projected to deliver around £1.4bn of savings within the next 4 years and help deliver better public services digitally.The Strategic Implementation plan sets out how the vision in the ICT strategy will be translated into real outcomes. [...]
This Strategic Implementation Plan on ICT planning and deployment and provides a reference for central government and is designed to be read alongside the Government ICT Strategy The Government’s ICT Strategy and Strategic Implementation Plan will deliver better public services for less cost. Through reuse and sharing of our ICT assets, we will improve productivity [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | October 16, 2011 Earlier today I opened the government track of our Industry program with a session on “Smart Government: Beyond Cities and Planets”, which was very well attended, taking into account the early time of the day. For those who have not been following the session, previous entries in [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | October 5, 2011 Through my analyst coverage of social media, cloud computing and – more recently – smart government, I am coming across a consistent number of cases where government IT departments are struggling to establish, affirm or defend their relevance to the rest of the business. This is not [...]
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