The European Commission wants to improve its free and open-source software repository system using an enhanced metadata specification meant to help EU countries exchange more information about their free and open-source software projects.
Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire look set to become the first police forces in the UK to share a common back office under a collaborative agreement with supplier Capita.
The Queen has formally announced plans to greatly increase surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies and the police, in plans that are being labelled a “snooper’s charter” by civil liberties groups.
The government has published numbers on the cost of G-Cloud and Cloudstore and the savings the public sector ICT procurement framework is expected to make it has been reported.
Several large local councils have been making significant cutbacks to their IT teams, with some reducing the number of in-house staff by up to 90 per cent, a series of freedom of information requests have revealed.
NHS Somerset has launched a new touch screen mobile health monitor to help improve the quality of life of its patients.
Francis Maude told an international gathering in Brazil how he wants to collaborate with other governments to drive the ‘Open Data’ agenda internationally.
Schoolchildren in Leeds are the first to get their hands on production models of the bare-bones Raspberry Pi computer.
Findings from the latest Information Security Breaches Survey (ISBS) report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) show UK businesses have been slow to react to the security risks created by the use of emerging technologies like smartphones, tablets and social networking.
The Royal Courts (RCJ) of Justice’s £12.5m eWorking system, which was supposed to improve the flow of information from court users across the RCJ by enabling them to submit files electronically, has been axed after months of poor implementation and low user uptake.
