The London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games has shortlisted four companies in its tendering process to appoint an information systems partner.
James Hall, the Accenture executive responsible for the firm’s £2bn contract with the NHS’s National Programme for IT, has been appointed as the first chief executive of the Identity and Passport Service.
BT has unveiled a new enterprise fixed/mobile convergence service to help organisations merge their Wi-Fi networks with GSM mobile networks to cut costs.
Women now make up less than 20% of the UK’s 1.2 million IT workforce, so the announcement of this year’s GCS Women in IT Award medallists is a timely reminder to all IT employers that opportunities for women are important for the future of the profession.