Liverpool City Council is creating an £11.2m framework of suppliers to provide hardware and software for staff in its offices and in schools....
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Information governance weaknesses identified in Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh Council has been told to improve its records management and data sharing following an assessment by the information watchdog....
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Councils scrap shared ICT services company
Two councils in Cheshire are to abandon a shared finance and ICT outsourcing partnership less than 18 months after it was established....
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Gloucester extends benefits ICT outsourcing deal
Gloucester City Council claimed this week that a welfare ICT outsourcing deal has saved more than £200,000 a year over the past four years....
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Big Apple ‘provides Big Data lessons’
UK councils can look to New York for an example of how to use data to drive service improvements, according to Socitm....
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Bristol wins smart city funding boost
A consortium including Bristol City Council has won a share of €25m to explore smart city technology....
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Welsh council ordered to improve data security
A Welsh council has been given three months to improve its data protection after the information watchdog found that it had failed to heed warnings....
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Shape of revamped digital framework emerges
The government’s newly rebranded Digital Services framework is set to include three main categories, according to the Government Digital Service....
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Survey shows up widespread G-Cloud ignorance
More than three quarters of council staff have not heard of the G-Cloud framework, according to new research, raising questions about government initiatives to improve awareness....
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Taking it back in-house
What lessons does the insourcing of ICT by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency provide for other public sector organisations?...
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