Public Sector IT
October 2012
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Cornwall outsourcing revolt spreads to London
30 Oct 2012 -
UK open standards and the proprietary ecosystem
26 Oct 2012 -
Cornwall caught in bed with BT as councillors raise red card
26 Oct 2012
Barnet Council is to vote on whether to oust its leader on Tuesday in a revolt over its attempt to outsource 70 per cent of council services to an IT company.The move follows in the wake of a ...
The coalition government was elected on the promise that it would resolve the notorious problems that had turned public sector IT into a disaster story.It expressed some firm ideas. Then it had ...
Councillors might have put Cornwall's privatisation on probation. But the council had already begun acting as a joint venture partner with BT.They voted unanimously Tuesday to suspend a proposal to ...
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What competition means for Cornwall
16 Oct 2012 -
Cornwall privatisation hangs in the balance
09 Oct 2012 -
MPs get in a funk over open source
02 Oct 2012
As Cornwall Council leader Alec Robertson faces a vote of no-confidence today over plans to outsource £800m of public services, the proposals are looking weaker than a my-dog-ate-it excuse for ...
Cornwall's council's unpopular plans for back-office privatisation are hanging in the balance after councillors complained they didn't know enough about it to give it their consent.The proposal to ...
The Conservative's open source technology strategy may have reached its culmination at a low water mark with the coalition government's renegotiated contract with Computer Sciences ...