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  • UK: IT contractors flock to City firms

    Number of public sector contractors falls for the first time in three years

    The number of IT contractors employed in the public sector has fallen for the first time in three years, according to research published last week.

    Some 26 per cent of all UK IT contractors now work in the public sector compared with 27 per cent six months ago.

  • UK: IT ends paper births register

    National database will replace need for traditional birth certificates

    Birth certificates will no longer exist within five years, as plans for an electronic births, deaths and marriages registration system are rolled out.

  • UK: IT experts must be true professionals

    Efforts are increasing to establish professional standards in IT

    One of the continuing debates in the highest echelons of government and industry centres on professionalism.

    Do you consider yourself an IT professional? There will be few in the industry who consider themselves amateurs, even if some disgruntled users might feel differently.

  • UK: IT experts slam UK ID card plans

    Analyst firm joins chorus of disapproval as government puts faith in 'untested technology'

    IT industry experts today warned that the UK government's latest plans to introduce biometrics-based national ID cards rely on untested technology, and could be stymied by a growing range of technological and operational issues.

    Analyst firm Butler Group noted that the government seems determined to push forward with its plans, despite a chorus of IT and privacy objections.

  • UK: IT for the roads

    The Highways Agency has signed a deal for the management of its command, control and communications services

    It has agreed a five year managed service contract, announced on 6 April 2005, with IT services company Computacenter. The deal, worth over £8m, involves support for the IT infrastructure at the agency's seven new regional control centres.

  • UK: IT holds key to public sector efficiency targets

    Billions of pounds could be saved through e-procurement and shared services

    The public sector must follow the lead of business and use IT to streamline back-office functions such as finance in a order to meet government efficiency targets.

    The call for better use of technology in areas such as e-procurement and shared services centres for transaction processing, came from public sector experts speaking at The Exchange for Public Sector conference.

  • UK: IT in firing line as chancellor takes axe to public spending

    Spending review will send shockwaves through IT industry

    The government today signalled its intention to slash public sector IT spending in the Comprehensive Spending Review, in a move that will send shock waves through the industry.

    Departmental operating savings targets have been doubled to £6 billion, with IT and the back office expected to bear a large part of the cuts. Only two or three areas will see new IT investment, including HM Revenue & Customs, high speed broadband, and a new benefits system.

  • UK: IT is essential for Whitehall efficiency

    More than £20bn of costs can be stripped out of Whitehall by 2007-8, according to the Efficiency Review led by ex-Office of Government Commerce chief executive Sir Peter Gershon.

    This week's Spending Review announcements from Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown are betting further increases in public service investment on the 'efficiency gains' to be made by implementing Sir Peter's recommendations.

  • UK: IT is the magic ingredient to keep council services local

    On May 4, voters in London boroughs and other English councils will blow millions of democratic raspberries at Tony Blair or David Cameron, according to taste. Judging by the electoral literature that's come through my door, political parties have given up even pretending that these local elections are about local issues. Voters realised long ago who makes all the important decisions about what their council does and how much it spends. Whitehall doesn't even trust councillors to decide whether library catalogues should be posted on the web.

  • UK: IT leaders fear loss of key e-gov projects as support scheme closes

    Local government IT leaders fear that key e-government projects could be abandoned after the government announced the end of central support for the £100m National Projects scheme.

    Last week the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, which runs the National Projects programme, said ownership of the projects - which include CRM, smartcards and e-procurement - would be handed to their lead authorities at the end of the year.

  • UK: IT leaders slam ID card plans

    IT chiefs have rounded on the UK government's reintroduction of the national identity card Bill, slamming it as a project growing out of control that will end up being a "fee-fest" for suppliers.

    The UK government claims the biometric technology is robust enough despite Home Office trials showing significant levels of failure in the registration and verification of iris, fingerprint and facial recognition trials involving 10,000 citizens last year.

  • UK: IT managers 'upbeat' about local government

    The spending spree on ICT by local government authorities has come to an end, tumbling budgets to their lowest levels since before 2004.

    Dwindling amounts of cash for local authorities to spend on ICT dictates less hiring of IT professionals, confirming the boom in recruitment is over, amid the “end of e-government.”

    But the verdict, from Socitm’s IT Trends in Local Government 2006/07, went onto suggest that static or reducing resources won’t stop councils modernising public services, thanks to the years of healthy investment.

  • UK: IT must be on the political agenda

    Computing backs calls for a minister for the knowledge economy

    Whoever is living in 10 Downing Street tomorrow, one thing is for sure. Every interest group will be knocking on the door asking the Prime Minister to back their needs, and the IT industry will certainly be among them.

    Computing fully supports the calls from trade body Intellect for a dedicated minister responsible for the knowledge economy. But why should our claims be given any more credence than the many other worthy causes queueing at No. 10?

  • UK: IT outsourcing in the public sector - survey findings from PA Consulting

    Miscommunication, misunderstanding and mistargeted investment block the strategic value achieved from IT outsourcing in the Government sector says a new report from PA Consulting Group.

    Government organisations and suppliers are not aligned when it comes to interpreting and agreeing IT outsourcing objectives. Furthermore, most outsourcing deals are doomed before they begin as insufficient attention is given to planning and due diligence. These are two major findings of the comprehensive research into IT outsourcing by PA Consulting Group.

  • UK: IT profession makes headway

    Most major departments have either recruited a CIO, or elevated the one they have to board level

    The creation of a ‘technology in business’ stream as part of Whitehall’s fast-track application process for talented graduates should be supported unequivocally.

  • UK: IT projects key to government efficiency plans

    Fifteen per cent of the £21.5bn project annual savings rely on technology programmes

    Fifteen per cent of the government’s efficiency plans rely on new technology investment such as the NHS national IT programme, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

    At least £3.2bn of the £21.5bn annual savings to be delivered by 2007/8 are IT-dependent, despite the risks involved with major IT projects, says a report on progress, published last week.

  • UK: IT security for e-Government: products to get quality kite mark

    Jim Murphy, Cabinet Office Minister with responsibility for e-government yesterday launched the UK's first ever quality award scheme that ensures users of off-the-shelf IT security products that they do what it says on the label.

    He announced BeCrypt are the first company to have a product win the award, at a Civil IA Product and Services Co-ordination Group event held in Birmingham.

  • UK: IT skills targeted by government

    Sector skills councils work with government to address the IT skills gap

    The government wants IT employers to work more closely with the sector skills body e-Skills UK to improve the UK’s IT capabilities.

    Speaking at the launch of a new campaign to promote skills across the workforce, minister of state for lifelong learning Bill Rammell said firms must increase their commitment and investment in staff training.

  • UK: IT squad to fix the public sector

    The UK government is hiring an elite team of IT professionals who can work at short notice to save public sector IT from crashing.

    The six to ten-man team will be led by the government’s top CIO, Ian Watmore, former Accenture boss and head of the e-Government Unit.

  • UK: IT staff desert dull private sector

    Public sector has 'money to spend, a clear goal and more interesting projects'

    Relentless cost cutting and mundane work is driving talented IT staff to desert the private sector for lower-paid but more interesting public sector jobs, recently unveiled research has claimed.

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