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As part of the Government’s commitment to delivering world-class digital products, the Minister for Cabinet Office Francis Maude announced the Identity Assurance programme would be receiving an extra £10 million in funding. The Identity Assurance programme deals with the way a service provider can be assured that the customer or user is who they say [...]
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 [...]
New Ofcom research reveals the extent to which the UK has become addicted to smartphones, with people confessing to using them everywhere from the dining table to the bathroom and bedroom. Over a quarter of adults (27 per cent) and almost half of teenagers (47 per cent) now own a smartphone, according to Ofcoms latest [...]
Ten innovative projects will play a key role in restoring fairness to the Housing Benefit system, Minister for Welfare Reform according to an announcement from Lord Freud. New Housing Benefit measures have been introduced to bring fairness back to the system and reduce the spiralling cost of the Housing Benefit bill. The ten successful projects [...]
The latest round of funding to support voluntary projects in health and social care has today been announced by Care Services Minister, Paul Burstow. Applications are invited to the 2012-13 Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development Fund that supports the voluntary sector in developing innovation across health and social care. In the last round (2011-12), 57 [...]
As a short preamble to this latest round up we’d like to request your input to a short survey that will be launched later on today determining what (if any?!) progress your organisation has made with the General Power of Competence and the launch this week of the Open Public Services White Paper. Those familiar [...]
Reports published today show that investments made by businesses in products and services that are protected by intellectual property rights (IPRs) are worth £65 billion a year. The announcement was made by Minister for Intellectual Property, Baroness Wilcox on a visit to Nottingham. Two new reports, ‘The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in the UK [...]
Maintaining, sustaining and delivering services that support people and communities who need them most is an increasing challenge. We’re developing a marketplace directory to enable people (and organisations) to reach out, match and connect their needs with resources, services, people and expertise in minutes. Why? To enable you to: Identify suitable partnerships and/or establish an [...]
Transport schemes across England, designed to boost economic growth and reduce carbon emissions, were given the go ahead today thanks to £155 million of Government investment. Thirty-nine projects have won funding as part of the first allocation from the Local Sustainable Transport Fund. They cover eight regions and a total of 37 local authorities, with [...]
Flatter, agile, streamlined and tech-enabled (FAST) government the key to the Future of Government according to report from the World Economic Foundation. Local authority IT Manager Mick Phythian, who is also a researcher at De Montfort University in Leicester on Electronic Government as well as the author of Progress in electronic service delivery by English [...]
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