The latest version of the G-Cloud framework, G-Cloud ii, went live in late October. Three quarters of the 458 suppliers on the new framework are SMEs.
The Department for Transport (DfT) and Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) were the first to move their websites to the government’s new web platform, GOV.UK, in a departmental migration that should save the taxpayer ‘at least £50m a year’.
NHS acute trusts in England will be spending £830 million a year on IT in four years time, as they respond to the axing of the National Programme for IT and other pressures, according to research.
Public sector bodies will now be able to buy a further 3,000 IT services through the cloud computing services catalogue set up by the Government, the Cabinet Office has announced.
Use of the innovative technology on offer at the University of Birmingham and the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry, will help businesses save time and money with costly repeat experiments which normally go hand in hand with testing new ideas.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has partnered with Skyscape Cloud Services to host its GEMS Online staff engagement and innovation system.
The Government has announced the appointment of Joanna Shields as Chief Executive of the Tech City Investment Organisation (TCIO).
A Government website that will save taxpayers up to £70 million by replacing other online public services is going live.
Prime Minister David Cameron has announced he will give £100m in funding for nurses and midwives to spend on new mobile technology, such as digital pens.
Top graduates are to be offered up to £20,000 to train as computer science teachers on courses designed with help from Facebook and Microsoft, it has been announced.
