Public Sector IT
March 2011
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Government to end ICT "oligopoly"
30 Mar 2011 -
We gave up, says GovIT SME
29 Mar 2011 -
Doom clouds gather over parliamentary IT hearing
29 Mar 2011
The government has promised to bring down the ICT oligopoly as part of a strategy that may have seismic consequences for the public and private sectors.
It's so hard dealing with the large suppliers who control UK government IT that its not even worth bothering to knock on their door.Steve Elliott, director and co-founder of SFW, told Computer ...
A couple of the great mandarins of government IT got top billing at the Parliamentary inquiry into computing last week. They set a gloomy scene for the government's forthcoming IT strategy, which ...
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Radical plan to cut Local Gov.IT
23 Mar 2011 -
Why is government IT rubbish?
16 Mar 2011 -
SME risks suicide before government IT committee
16 Mar 2011 -
MOD test flies Universal Credit elastoplast
11 Mar 2011 -
Parliament illustrates gov.IT malfunction by example
08 Mar 2011 -
Give Linux security clearance, US told UK
07 Mar 2011 -
Open standards policy gets thumbs up and let down
04 Mar 2011
The draft local government IT strategy has sketched out the beginning of the end for public sector IT.It's authors may say it is merely a beginning. But these things are certain: it proposes a ...
Why is the £24bn of UK government computing delivered by just 18 companies rubbish? Mmm. This one may require yet another parliamentary inquiry. Fortunately, we have one. It met yesterday and was ...
It would be "suicide" for any SMEs to tell Parliament what was really wrong with public sector IT, Martin Rice, managing director of Erudine, told Computer Weekly in Westminster yesterday.He had ...
The Ministry of Defence has been struggling to patch together a vast estate of creaky old computer systems to make them fit for interconnection in the 21st century.It's travails may provide insight ...
As MPs on the Public Administration Committee opened their inquiry into government IT today, they exemplified the problem they are seeking to solve: why is government IT often such a hash?
The British intelligence services pushed the open source Linux operating system through security clearance in order to meet a US request for operational interoperability of computer systems.
The government's open standards policy is being hailed by free software campaigners as an example to other European countries, but on condition the Cabinet Office can actually implement it - a ...
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Ban the Microsoft "virus", government told
01 Mar 2011
Microsoft web software is like a computer virus in government computer systems and must be banned, a meeting of the British Computer Society's Open Source Specialist Group heard last week.