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Ten of the 25 Office of Management and Budget-sponsored e-gov initiatives have agreements with other agencies for monetary contributions, but a Government Accountability Office investigation found that six of those agencies failed to pay the agreed-upon amount in fiscal 2003 and nine agencies' contributions fell short of expectations in fiscal 2004.

The Bush administration is struggling to set up a Government wide licensing deal for purchasing software, the White House official in charge of IT and e-government said on 22 October 2003.

Street scene is the description of the roads, footways and verges that make up the environment we move around in, either on foot or in a vehicle.

Die Initiative des Cabinet Office sieht vor, spezielle Sicherheitstestprofile für Open-Source-Systeme zu entwickeln, die auf SELinux und Xen aufbauen. Die entsprechenden Einzelheiten zu diesem Projekt wurden in einer Debatte des House of the Lords, dem britischen Oberhaus, bekannt. Das Ziel des amtlichen Projekts ist die Schaffung vertrauenswürdiger Plattformen für Webservices und ferngewartete Systeme, die in allen britischen Regierungsbehörden bedenkenlos eingesetzt werden können.

Vietnamese Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung and the UK’s Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Chris Philp signed a Letter of Intent on cooperation in digital economy and digital transformation on November 1 (London time).

The two officials shared strategic orientations, national programmes and projects on the development of the digital economy and digital society of each country, as well as initiatives and policies in support of digital economic development.

Virgin Media O2 has successfully trialled an innovative new way of improving and expanding mobile services by bringing together its fixed network infrastructure with new smart poles, which could help to boost mobile coverage in local areas across the UK.The innovation trial, delivered in collaboration with shareholder Liberty Global, has seen smart poles installed beside the operator’s existing national fibre network cabinets. The poles, which are much smaller than traditional mobile phone masts and do not require planning permission, can be safely installed in less than a day and house small cell technology which can boost mobile coverage in busy areas.

In a UK first, the electricity is supplied by Virgin Media’s fibre network rather than a traditional power supply through innovative ‘digital electricity’ technology, which transmits power from on-street cabinets in the local area along fibre optic cables. The same fixed fibre network is also used to carry data to and from the mobile cells and the internet.

The Welsh model is based on a ‘bottom up” approach which restricts the level of choice-based services available, instead preferring to engage with citizens at every stage of the service design and delivery process. This information gathered from this dialogue is not used for league-tables or to drive competition but to give citizens the means and measures with which to involve themselves fully in the policy decision-making process.

Microsoft’s Didier Ongena explains how generative AI, digital twins and the cloud are helping governments and city leaders to optimise operations and deliver better services to citizens

Every public sector employee in the UK spends more than eight hours per week managing data and performing routine administrative tasks, according to Microsoft’s 2024 Harnessing the Power of AI for the Public Sector report. The research shows that 45 per cent of respondents are “drowning in unnecessary administrative tasks”, with 55 per cent saying this workload negatively impacts their ability to get on with the day job, and nearly half indicating it compromises the quality of service they provide and limits how long they can spend directly interacting with the public.

The UK’s shortage of cyber security professionals dates back to the dot-com bubble, when industry growth across the IT sector opened up a wealth of new career opportunities.

Alongside the US, the UK had pioneered cyber security up to then and looked well placed to take advantage. However, the growth never materialised. A 2009 SANS Institute survey of cyber security professionals revealed 90 per cent had experienced difficulty recruiting. While industry need and raw talent have never decreased, the conveyer belt turning skilled amateurs into security professionals has stalled.

Study by Capterra emphasises the need for cities and organisations to leverage smart city technologies and integrate them with the latest urban developments.

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• More than 80 per cent of people in the UK want to live in a smart city, according to research by Capterra UK
• Survey reveals the most common smart city service available to 72 per cent of UK residents is smart mobility

The majority of people in the UK (81 per cent) want to live in a smart city, according to research by software and services marketplace, Capterra UK.

According to a silicon.com reader poll, 71 per cent of the 141 respondents said they had noticed no new interaction from their local authority.

Only 21 per cent said they had seen changes in the council's online approach to the public while the remaining seven per cent said they were unsure.

The winners in the e-Government National Awards 2004 were presented with their Awards on the evening of 19th January, at a high level dinner attended by a who's who of senior UK e-Government leaders. The awards are a yardstick for UK excellence in e-Government and are supported by the Cabinet Office and Socitm.