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..., laptops, printers and servers using the method.Other belt-tightening successes included moves to cut energy bills by automatically turning off computers at night and a rail travel bo...
749 days ago
..., laptops, printers and servers using the method.Other belt-tightening successes included moves to cut energy bills by automatically turning off computers at night and a rail travel bo...
749 days ago
...es”. The report was produced by the ‘Bureau of Investigative Journalism’: a not-for-profit body lent office space and computers by London’s City Univer...
495 days ago
Maude champions online services
...losing down other channels,” he told CSW, adding that universal access can be maintained by offering a mediated service – perhaps via public computers or call centres.Asked how off...
176 days ago
...To tackle the problem, he said, his office is working to ensure that organisations train their staff and keep data secure. Information on laptop computers must be encrypted in case the...
176 days ago
...ervice has already started to pilot this technology and found it to be successful, Lewis says. In Merseyside, prosecutors have been using tablet computers, while in the high-profile ca...
176 days ago
...s – which only enable users to search JCP’s own database – with computers on which customers can manage...inced that we’ve got accurate data about the usage of and access to computers and the internet.” So the f...
176 days ago
Frontline: A library assistant on the effects of government policy on a public library
...icy to promote internet access has really taken off in libraries. The computers are heavily used by people wi...of IT education and actively encourage people who are intimidated by computers to try them. Earlier this ye...
107 days ago
Frontline: patient administrator
...ately.Also, some doctors don’t like to access online patient records, and prefer to look at paper records instead. They are resistant to using computers because they have set ways of...
176 days ago
...payment cards for the ‘Home Access’ scheme, which provides children in low-income households with a grant to buy approved packages of laptop computers and internet access. Recipien...
176 days ago
One small step for a government, one giant leap for governance
...doesn’t have a laptop in their home, that doesn’t mean that they can’t get online at libraries and after-school clubs, said Wilde; on the computers of friends, added Yard; or on...
176 days ago
Which technologies will change the way we work, and which are just a flash in the pan? Suzannah Brecknell reports on a discussion of how new technologies are set to transform government’s interactions with the public. The BBC’s long-running show Tomorrow’s World was produced from 1965 to 2...
Tags: public service reform, software, information and communication technology, internet, computers
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Government CIO announces retirement
Joe Harley, chief information officer (CIO) for government and also for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), has announced that he will retire from the civil service next spring.The DWP will immediately begin a process to appoint a successor, while the Cabinet Office will start a separate ...
Tags: information and communication technology, computers, ict skills, information technology
73 days ago
Comment on "A Map for the Future?"
...gazetteer studies in the 1970s demonstrated the power of good geographical reference information. ICL, when they were the principal suppliers of computers to local government, offered...712 days ago
