Land Registry is pushing through its plans to centralise ICT for the registration of local land charges in the face of major questions being raised about the proposal by local […]...
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Single council website ‘ill-conceived’
Local government should not attempt to create a single website for councils, according to public sector ICT professional representative body Socitm....
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Government to unify digital market strategy
The Government is drawing up a strategy to govern the purchase and supply of digital products and services across the public sector....
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Peering through the G-Cloud
Ed Bradley and Tim Ingham believe the recent furore over council G-Cloud spending could help open up more contracts for small and medium enterprises....
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Delivering health care to the digitally excluded
We talk to Dave Horsfield, programme delivery director at More Independent Liverpool (MIL) about how digital technology is being used to increase older citizens’ independence....
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Billions of savings ‘available through mobile working’
Local public sector bodies are wasting £7.2bn a year by failing to enable proper mobile working among staff, according to a new report....
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Weekly tenders update
London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has released a tender for the provision of a parking management information system. View this and all of this week’s council ICT tenders....
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Public ‘wants more’ from council digital services
Councils’ perception of their success in delivering digital services is wildly at odds with those of the public, according to a new survey....
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More services join local digital dashboard
Data on library book renewal, council tax payments and bus pass applications are to be added to the local government performance dashboard being hosted by the Government Digital Service....
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Lost emails prompt Norfolk e-consultation changes
Norfolk County Council is to overhaul its electronic consultation processes after losing emailed objections from environmental groups to a major new road scheme it is promoting....
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