The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ordered the Council of the Isle of Scilly to implement a new data protection regime after it failed to take adequate action in response to two […]...
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Councils urged to join new digital dashboard
The Government Digital Services has launched the second dashboard for local government services....
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Microsoft speeds up cloud migration
Cloud migration is not as simple as just moving a VM from a local network to a cloud provider....
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Government consults on new G-Cloud security regime
Digital suppliers which are found to have deliberately lied to councils about their security status would be disqualified from the G-Cloud framework, according to self-certification rules to replace pan-government accreditation....
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London schools get ICT purchasing freedoms
A London council is creating a framework worth up to £60m to open up choice of solutions for schools and academies in the capital....
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Weekly tenders update
Salford City Council has appointed three wireless access circuit providers to install and maintain data circuits for current and future projects....
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Warwickshire runs successful identity assurance pilot
Warwickshire County Council (WCC) has completed the first local government trial of the government’s identity assurance scheme for the public sector....
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No standard, no certainty
The government’s decision to reduce pan-government accreditation requirements sends the wrong message, according to James Walker, president of the CloudEthernet Forum....
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Auditor slams council’s CRM implementation
A business plan prepared by a council ICT department contained flaws resulting in a failure to achieve predicted savings of £1.6m, according to a report by external auditors....
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Government in ICT aggregation drive
The government is planning to run a series of competitions to aggregate further the purchasing of different categories of ICT for public bodies....
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