The Public Sector Network (PSN) could offer huge potential to help deliver budget savings for local authorities and so should be a priority for ICT leaders, says Socitm, the body for Town Hall ICT leaders.
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20/10/10
Local government ICT association Socitm has called the Coalition Government’s understanding of the potential of IT to reform public services "encouraging" in the wake of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
02/09/10
Local government ICT leadership body Socitm warns that councils are not using the Web effectively enough to make a shift of delivering more services online anything like a possibility.
19/08/10
Despite global versions of the age of austerity, national and international government IT spending is to grow by 4% in 2010, outstripping average growth for all sectors.
06/08/10
Socitm, the Society of IT Management, has published a report revealing a “worrying” real-term reduction in the amount local government has spent on ICT since 2006, equating to 19.3%.
More worryingly the report, part of Socitm’s Benchmarking services summary for 2009, has pointed out local authorities have dropped their ICT spend per user by 15.75% in real-terms over the last two years alone.
04/08/10
Socitm, the Society of IT Management, has published a new briefing targeting local authority managers, advising them how to respond to the requirements on open data and transparency being made by the coalition government.
04/08/10
Socitm, the Society of IT Management, has announced John Callan, head of ICT at Liverpool City Council, has joined the CIO Council.
The Council, a Cabinet Office group designed to discuss the progress of realizing the Government ICT strategy, meets quarterly and brings together CIOs and heads of ICT from across the public sector.
23/06/10
In an age of austerity where ICT should be an enabler for wider economic recovery, it’s reassuring to find pragmatists like Dylan Roberts determined to deliver on the mantra of our times: more with less.
23/06/10
It was pretty clear to everyone beforehand, that the first budget of the new Coalition Government was going to be a difficult one – difficult for them to write given the austerity theme, and difficult for the rest of us in its impact.
07/06/10
Socitm, the Society of IT Management, has published a new report on local public service websites, and concluded local and national government websites “could do better” when it comes to publishing information in a bid to “support the democratic process”.
The Society drew its conclusions following a series of surveys carried out before, during, and after last month’s elections on 6 May. Forty-two council websites were involved in the surveys, selected because local elections were held on the same day as the general election.