The vast majority of councils’ digital self serve systems are window dressing, with citizens paying for staff to rekey data they have already provided online, according to a new report....
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Data dangers
Can data be too open? Mark Rowe takes a look at the lessons for the public sector from Defra’s ambitious new initiative....
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Edinburgh set to name CGI for online shift deal
City of Edinburgh Council is set to name global IT giant CGI as its preferred bidder to oversee a large-scale transfer of its business online....
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Crothers to step down from CCS role
Bill Crothers is to step down as the government’s chief commercial officer but will continue in an advisory role, the Cabinet Office has announced....
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Overcoming barriers to joint working
What are benefits that joint working can bring to government – and where do the challenges lie? A recent round table found out....
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Councils ICT product margins soar to 21%
Councils are paying increasingly high margins for ICT products – with mark-ups growing faster than in any other sector – according to new research....
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ICT security ‘lagging behind other shared services’
Local public sector bodies are neglecting ICT security in their drive to share services with partner organisations, according to new research....
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Storing up issues
Farid Ouazzani on how the rise of the Cloud has affected the approach organisations are taking to backing up data....
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Email expectations
Email outages are a risk to public service delivery – Neil Murray asks what the public sector can do to prepare for future failures....
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Civica to provide Bristol’s housing management software
Bristol City Council has used the Local Authority Software Applications (LASA) framework to commission supplier Civica for a £1.9m project to provide software to manage its housing stock....
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