Nick Roberts, IMT group manager, partnerships and collaboration at Surrey County Council, was today elected as president of local government ICT representative body Socitm....
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Socitm and GDS to expand local digital dashboard initiative
A programme to use digital dashboards to analyse council service delivery is to expand after its initial work identified opportunities to reduce failure demand....
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Managers told to avoid “geek speak”
Council managers using titles such as “head of IT” may find it difficult to be taken seriously by senior corporate officials, according to a new report....
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EU procurement reforms – shearing away poor suppliers
Procurement rules have long been denounced as tangled by local government. Joshua Chambers reports on new reforms seeking to allow officers greater freedom....
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Local authorities ‘confident over skills’
Local government staff are more confident than other parts of the public sector that they have the skills required to deliver their objectives, including ICT reform, according to new research....
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A vision of the cognitive council
Cognitive computing has the promise to become a major asset in helping councils to work smarter, says Mark Say....
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Property disposals set to fund council ICT projects
Councils will be allowed to sell property to pay for ICT improvement projects under a new £200 million scheme launched by the government....
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Cognitive computing “can help councils survive austerity”
Councils could use “cognitive computing” techniques to analyse reams of data they collect in order to improve services and save money according to writer Mark Say....
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Weekly tenders update
The government is looking to talk to suppliers about the roll-out of an identity assurance service for government. Get details of this and other local government tenders....
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Councils to benefit from free extended Microsoft support
Details have emerged of which councils will qualify for ongoing support for Microsoft Window XP, Office 2003 email and Exchange 2003 server products under a deal struck by the government […]...
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