A SIEMless security answer for Surrey Council
Surrey County Council says a ‘SIEM’ - standardised security information and event management - approach is both saving it money and improving delivery of services
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Dutch municipality will save €2.5m by 2023 by replacing legacy with No-Code
The City of Zaanstad reckons building its own custom software with the Betty Blocks application development platform has been a major cost-saver — and efficiency creator.
Cleveland Police turns to Experian to create a single view of residents
Cleveland Police Force says data services provider Experian helped it eradicate its very high number of duplicate and incomplete records.
Leeds City CDIO - ‘Too many public sector IT leaders are stuck in the past’
Too few technology chiefs understand the power of disruption, says Leeds City Council’s digital executive.
Staffordshire County Council wants to make work “an activity and not a location”
How universal docking is allowing all 4,000 members of Staffordshire County Council’s workforce to work in new ways
mySociety CEO - ‘There are issues close to home in the UK that we need to focus on’
Mark Cridge discusses how civic tech organisation mySociety is going through a moment of reflection and is considering Brexit, climate change and inequality in the UK.
UKCloud secures £25m funding from Digital Alpha Advisors - Cisco’s investment arm
UKCloud has been one of the UK tech sector’s greatest success stories in recent years, providing cloud infrastructure to the public sector.
Smart cities - Policy and best practice from the front line
Chris Middleton presents the second of two reports from the Westminster eForum on smart cities.
Fife Council - true strategic thinking is looking at how you work and how it can be improved
Third largest council in Scotland says a different way of working with documents is translating to over £6m worth of savings over 10 years.
Government is “in denial” over local authority funding, as demand for services increases
A report by the influential Public Accounts Committee has said that local authority finances continue to deteriorate. Whilst not specifically a ‘digital’ problem, the context is important.
Nutanix helps Manchester Council to think `service expansion’
With Government austerity still very much the order of the day in Local Government circles, finding a local authority CIO planning expansion of services to help vulnerable citizens is something of a rarity, but it seems a move to Nutanix is helping with both cost savings – carbon footprint and real estate – and more powerful resources.
Brighton Council takes the Orbis Partnership down the path to Nutanix
Local Government councils coming together to share IT is increasingly common - and here is a story of how one member of just such a Partnership, the coming together of Surrey, and East Sussex County Councils with Brighton and Hove City Council as the Orbis Partnership, has taken the plunge into the world of hyperconverged architectures with Nutanix.
Government which tech projects to receive share of £2 million funding - from digital dairy farming to SME productivity
A separate funding competition has also been announced, which will allow businesses, local authorities and academia to test rolling out productivity-boosting technology.
Minister for Implementation talks up private and public sector partnerships to improve service delivery
Oliver Dowden announced the latest five challenges that form part of the GovTech Catalyst programme, which aims to encourage the private sector to solve public sector problems.