Technology

New safeguarding measures for the elderly and vulnerable in the UK

Nearly two million elderly and disabled people in the UK who rely on lifesaving personal alarms will be better protected during the transition from analogue to digital landlines.

MPs warn the UK is heading towards a digital skills crisis

MPs have warned urgent action is needed to tackle a digital skills crisis in the UK, which costs the UK some £63bn a year...

Wales will fail to meet broadband target

Natasha Marie Levanti, Association for Consultancy and Engineering, highlights the plight of Wales to meet targets to install broadband across the nation... Despite the large...

PETRAS – Cybersecurity of the Internet of Things

Jeremy Watson, Professor of Engineering Systems at UCL and Emil Lupu from Imperial College London outline how the new PETRAS research hub aims to...

London council IT teams urged to build cloud services

London local authority IT teams have been called upon to design and implement their digital services through the ‘SuperCloud’… London Grid for Learning (LGfL) Chief...

Digital public services in the UK fall behind EU

The UK has fallen to 16th place among 28 EU member states for delivering digital public services… The 2016 Digital Economy and Society Index has...

IT advances leave 40 per cent more secure

Mav Turner, of SolarWinds highlights how far IT security has come and how nearly 40 per cent of UK companies are more secure than a year...

Shared chief digital officer plan receives support of Scottish councils

Some 26 out of Scotland’s 32 local authorities have joined a strategy that will bring digital services under a single chief digital officer role… Under...

Digitalising services to strengthen communities

Dave Langhorn, Head of Regional Business and Regional Public Sector at Vodafone UK discusses how communities can be strengthened by digitalising services... What makes a...

Accessing 5G mobile networks

The University of Kent outlines how it is leading research focused on the radio access network of future mobile communications... The next, 5th generation of...

City council rolls out free Wi-Fi across Edinburgh

As part of plans to improve connectivity, Edinburgh City Council has signed a contract to roll out free Wi-Fi across the city… A 10-year contract...

New head of ICT appointed at Norfolk County Council

A new director of ICT will start at Norfolk County Council in early August, it has emerged… Socitm president Geoff Connell has been appointed as...

£6bn investment for faster BT broadband and mobile services

BT has announced plans to invest £6bn over the next three years to improve broadband and mobile services. New plans from BT Group will see...

Tackling the challenges of cyber-attacks – a local authority perspective

Cath Birch, Chief Information Officer at Buckinghamshire County Council outlines why they take cyber security very seriously. No one can deny that digital technology is...

UK to benefit from big data and IoT

Mark Wilkinson, Regional Vice President – Northern Europe and Russia/CIS at SAS Software UK outlines the value of the Internet of Things and big...

Northumberland launches new online customer portal

Northumberland County Council has launched a new online portal that will deliver numerous services… Northumberland County Council has moved some services to a new online...

£40m Welsh supercomputer network fails to deliver jobs

A £40m initiative to deliver high-end computing services has failed to deliver the number of jobs promised… Less than half the jobs expected to be...

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