Mark Ballard is a freelance journalist who writes about computer policy, crime, security, law and systems. He is also a contributor to Computer Weekly's Public Sector IT Projects blog.
Mark can be contacted by email at: markjballard @ googlemail.com .
Contributions from Mark Ballard
- Microsoft conflict delays government open standards
- Former Newham Council CIO comes out of retirement
- Somerset to bring Southwest One services back in house
- South West One is failing, says council leader
- IBM bails out struggling South West One with £10m loan
- Government challenges proprietary software lobby
- US fraud investigators examine CSC's £2.9bn NHS deal
- CSC preps shareholders for NHS write-off
- Police reject first draft of government ICT plan
- Private firms could eventually own police IT agency
- G-Cloud goes agile for IT procurement
- UK consults on definition of IT open standards
- Government CIO Harley retires
- Maverick NHS Trust outsources its entire IT to CSC
- Bristol Council gets open source go-ahead after CESG discussions
- Universal Credit deadline forced DWP
- Universal Credit deadline forced DWP to use “unproven” agile development
- Government moves to ease security restrictions stifling cloud and open source
- Chiefs put police IT reforms on remand
- Bristol Council's open source plan thwarted by security clearance problems