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22nd April 2010
'Clouds on the horizon - challenges for delivery managers' by Neil Moore, 'Doing things differently - sharing experiences of radical change' by Martin Ferguson, 'Change' by Simon Norbury, 'Sleeping With The Enemy: The Third Sector as a Delivery Agent' by David Clayden
16 KB PDF Open Election Data Project: making local election information and results more widely available
21st April 2010
Socitm and the LGA have just published a note encouraging local authorities to take part in the Open Election Data Project, which both organisations are supporting.
31 KB PDF Socitm's manifesto for an incoming Government: A Seven Point Plan for IT in Tomorrow's Public Services
21st April 2010
Socitm has prepared a 7-point plan - its hopes for the incoming Government post-General Election. Look out for our forthcoming analysis of the main parties' manifestos against the plan, to be published soon.
48 KB PDF Socitm Insight Briefing Issue 16 - March 2010
19th April 2010
Economics, slashed budgets, green initiatives, new computing and service delivery models, and increasing expectations of what ICT can do to reshape service delivery will all add to a packed agenda. How to cope?
174 KB PDF Channel value benchmarking group 4 leaflet
19th April 2010
Providing information about the cost and value of access to local authority services through web, phone, face-to-face and other channels.
599 KB PDF Managing information: managing the lifeblood of the organisation
13th April 2010
Potentially, good information management could protect UK public sector services from the worst of the financial crisis.
113 KB PDF Service improvement for ICT in Scotland: Flexible working
7th April 2010
The flexible working concept is far from new, yet adoption remains low outside urban centres with high commercial rents and difficult journeys to work.
363 KB PDF What all council chief executives must ask about their website
6th April 2010
Despite what people might say when asked, most interactions with local councils are now made online. So you really need to get it right. We have identified ten things that council chief executives should ask about their website.
30 KB PDF Socitm response to the Prime Minister's speech on Britain's Digital Future
1st April 2010
This document is Socitm's response to the Prime Minister's speech on Britain's Digital Future, delivered on 22 March.
147 KB PDF Socitm Annual General Meeting 2010 documents
31st March 2010
Files include the agenda, voting forms, proposed new membership structure, articles of association and changes to existing articles of association.
138 KB PDF Learning from Better connected 2010 leaflet
31st March 2010
This event will review the findings of Better connected 2010 and relate them to the imminent financial crisis facing the public sector.
21 KB PDF Socitm National Conference 2010 datasheet
25th March 2010
One-day event held each spring covering topics of interest to members. Previously known as Socitm's Spring Seminar.
21 KB PDF Socitm Annual Conference 2010 datasheet
25th March 2010
Annual Conference for Socitm (Society of Information Technology Management). Three-day, two-night event covering topics of interest to members, workshops, gala evening, networking.
21 KB PDF Building Perfect Council Websites 2010 datasheet
25th March 2010
Annual event organised jointly by Socitm (Society of Information Technology Management) and Headstar. One-day seminar event covering local authority website content management and design.
66 KB DOC Socitm response to the Government's Ordnance Survey consultation
19th March 2010
This document contains Socitm's response to the Department for Communities and Local Government's consultation on the policy options for geographic information from Ordnance Survey (closing date 31 March 2010).
117 KB DOC Useful content and usability - Version 3
12th March 2010
This document updates Version 2 of the criteria for websites first published in Better connected: aiming high (January 2005). The third section of the criteria that is related to 'Usage' has not been reviewed.
1 MB PPT West Midlands Regional Meeting Presentations
10th March 2010
Presentations from West Midlands Regional Meeting held on 23rd Feb 2010
115 KB PDF Socitm Insight Briefing Issue 15 - February 2010
4th March 2010
Our January briefing last year, Cloud computing on the horizon, stated 'there is no doubt that that the cloud is here to stay'. Some may have doubted us. Now the cloud (G-Cloud) is the backbone of the government's ICT strategy, being a 'key enabler of £3.2 billion savings'.
161 KB PDF Socitm 10 National Conference leaflet
26th February 2010
Doing things differently and doing different things: sharing experience of radical change
12 MB ZIP Better connected 2010
16th February 2010
The structure of this report follows the criteria for high-quality local authority websites that develop the ideas that websites should be 'useful, usable and used' (Version 3 of that framework published, September 2009).
529 KB PDF Twitter gritters: council use of digital channels in local emergencies
15th February 2010
This briefing shows how Councils are starting to use global social networks like Facebook and Twitter as well as hyperlocal, community websites operating in their areas, to communicate with their residents and businesses when local emergencies arise.
481 KB PDF A Socitm policy briefing: The Government ICT Strategy: Smarter, Cheaper, Greener
12th February 2010
This briefing provides commentary from Socitm on the Government ICT Strategy published in January 2010. We provide an overall response and then identify and describe a series of areas we think should receive greater attention.
8 MB PPT Scotland Regional Event Presentations - 22nd Jan 2010
11th February 2010
Presentations given at Scotland Regional Event 22nd Jan 2010 by David Pullinger and Ellen Jessett.
120 KB PDF IT trends in local public services 2009/10 - Stretched to breaking point
28th January 2010
There is a belief that the cost of public service ICT is too high. The existing technology infrastructure was built in an era of growth and prosperity.
46 KB PDF Socitm Insight Briefing Issue 12 - September 2009
27th January 2010
In this issue we focus on ICT strategy as a way of doing the right things.
46 KB PDF Socitm Insight Briefing Issue 13 - November 2009
27th January 2010
In this issue we examine the role of information at the heart of business continuity planning.
50 KB PDF Socitm Insight Briefing Issue 14 - January 2010
27th January 2010
In this issue we look at future public services and how they will depend on information and ICT-enabled change.
4 MB PDF South West Event Presentations - 4 December 2009
25th January 2010
Presentations for the above event, held at Sandy Park, Exeter. Around 40 members attended the final event of 2009 which was sponsored by IBM. 'Transformation in the Public Sector' was broad theme of the event.
4 MB PPT South West Region Presentations - 11 September 2009
25th January 2010
The South West regional event, sponsored by Vistorm, was attended by around 30 members.
2 MB PPT South West Region Presentations - 13 March 2009
25th January 2010
Event Held at Sandy Park Conference Centre, Near Exeter. The South West Regional Event,sponsored by Siemens, was very successful with over 40 regional members attending.