IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

The campaign - founded by a range of broadband organisations and champions of wider community interests - will lobby the Government to provide adequate and effective broadband access for the "Final Third" of the UK which currently lacks this vital infrastructure.

The campaign will focus on ensuring that all those in the Final Third will be able to access Government online services by 2012, and then facilitating the move towards next generation access.

Andrew Pinder, whose role has been to get people and services online by 2005, steps down after four years.

A new report has challenged recent claims by Ofcom that rural areas have better broadband access than city areas.

Thinkbroadband, the UK's largest independent broadband information site, took speed readings from over 13,000 broadband customers and found that rural users suffer a significant shortfall in speeds compared to their city cousins.

The action plan says Scotland’s incremental approach to deploying technology will continue and the new strategy will build on this. “We do not plan to produce some large single database of patient information but will join up systems where there are clear benefits from doing so.”

The research was conducted by Imago Communications in conjunction with Ovum.

VoIP applications that improve ‘teleworking’ and ‘employee mobility’ are both cited by 61% of respondents when asked ‘what APPLICATIONS are driving your move to VoIP?’.

The lack of citizen input into the Office of the e-Envoy's proposals has emerged only through analysis of the consulation responses, which were published on the e-Envoy's website on Friday.

The nine projects to be funded include two-way video conferencing for users and health professionals, using telehealth to promote well-being and integrating personalised digital TV into telehealth.

Each project is being run by a consortium of business, health and social services, and academia.

The website, which has gone live today, contains every single law ever made in the UK, including all revisions throughout legal history since 1267.

Legislation.gov.uk will llow anyone, from officials to ordinary citizens to scrutinise the laws on which their legal rights and responsibilities are based. There are multiple options for downloading and printing the information across the site.

This product will bring together the three main controlled vocabularies available to public sector bodies in one merged vocabulary or taxonomy. The vocabulary can be used to populate Subject Metadata and index and categorise information across the public sector.

The UK government is moving 150 of its departments to a more secure IT network and intranet in a bid to improve communication in the public sector.

Service provider Energis, which completed the first phase of the £60m contract last week, said the Government Secure Intranet (GSi) will allow civil servants to communicate over departments through peer-to peer technology and virtual private networks.