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Government's drive to open up official, non-personal, local data will create benefits and efficiencies says LGA and Socitm
Published: Friday 26th February 2010
The drive to free up official data on local services, with the launch of data.gov.uk, has the potential to create benefits for citizens and businesses and improve efficiencies in the public sector.
Government ICT Strategy’s focus on reducing technology costs is disappointing says Socitm
Published: Friday 12th February 2010
The over-riding emphasis on reducing the cost of government ICT, a key plank of the Government ICT Strategy released in January, is disappointing
Karl Grundy joins Socitm as Head of Commercial Development from similar role at MySociety
Published: Friday 22nd January 2010
Socitm has appointed Karl Grundy to the newly-created role of Head of Commercial Development and Business Relationships.
Council ICT managers should lead their organisations to embrace social media rather than block it says new report from Socitm
Published: Monday 18th January 2010
Public sector heads of ICT should be taking the lead in encouraging councils to embrace social media and not be party to moves to block staff from using these important new tools for business...
Underperforming websites could be costing councils £11m a month
Published: Friday 8th January 2010
This finding comes from data collected in September by Socitm Insight’s Website Takeup service, and is published in its latest Customer Access Improvement Service briefing, published on 8 January.
Socitm travel award 2009 (the Graham Williamson Challenge) goes to Scott Mansfield from Leeds City Council
Published: Friday 30th October 2009
IT Assistant Scott Mansfield (22), a member of the web team at Leeds City Council, has been named winner of this year’s Graham Williamson Challenge Award by Socitm.
Socitm surveys IT managers over ‘blocking’ of social media by councils
Published: Sunday 23rd August 2009
Socitm Insight is asking local authority IT managers for their views on the use of social media within local authorities and the degree to which it poses security threats...
Sessions on cloud computing, social media, e-care, the Council of the Future and the Operational Efficiency Programme added to Socitm 2009 programme
Published: Friday 21st August 2009
Annual conference Re-inventing local public services – radical thinking, practical solutions will take place 11-13 October at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre
Sessions on cloud computing, social media, e-care, the Council of the Future and the Operational Efficiency Programme added to Socitm 2009 programme
Published: Friday 21st August 2009
Annual conference Re-inventing local public services – radical thinking, practical solutions will take place 11-13 October at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.
Socitm confirms Adrian Hancock as Managing Director
Published: Saturday 18th July 2009
The Society of IT Management has confirmed Adrian Hancock as its managing director, a role he has occupied on an interim basis since January.
ICT professionals sought for Socitm’s Graham Williamson Travel Award 09
Published: Friday 17th July 2009
Entries in the Graham Williamson Challenge, Socitm’s travel award for people starting out on their career in ICT or a related discipline, are now open.
Web usability guru Gerry McGovern to speak at Building the Perfect Council Website event 16 July, London
Published: Wednesday 1st July 2009
Third annual event will dissect Socitm's Better connected 2008 Other sessions cover accessibility, Web 2.0 & Take-up
Councils double web traffic with sophisticated online election news service using social media tools
Published: Tuesday 9th June 2009
County Councils saw their web traffic double last Friday and Saturday thanks to provision of a sophisticated online election results service coupled with use of social media tools like Twitter etc
Steve Palmer, CIO at London Borough of Hillingdon confirmed as Socitm President
Published: Friday 24th April 2009
Steve Palmer, CIO at the London Borough of Hillingdon has been confirmed as the new Socitm President at the Society’s AGM on April 23.
Lean thinking could provide solution for councils facing grim outlook on budgets says new Socitm briefing
Published: Friday 27th March 2009
Lean thinking, a management approach originating in Japanese manufacturing, could be a long term answer for councils coping with rising demand for services.
Impact of 'cloud computing' on public sector ICT may be 'more revolutionary than advent of the PC' says new Socitm briefing
Published: Friday 20th February 2009
The use of web resources to provide facilities and services hosted elsewhere on the internet - could have an even more revolutionary impact on public sector ICT than the advent of the PC in the 1980s.
Local authority ICT spend in 2008/9 reaches an all time high according to Socitm IT Trends 2008 report
Published: Friday 23rd January 2009
Local authorities will spend more than £3.2bn on IT in 2008/9
Socitm and CITRA merge to provide a single ‘home’ for IT and related professionals in public and third sectors
Published: Thursday 11th December 2008
Socitm has announced its merger with The Charity IT Resource Alliance (CITRA), a non-profit membership organisation supporting IT professionals in the third sector.
Winners announced in Socitm 2008 photo competition
Published: Monday 3rd November 2008
Socitm has announced the winners of its 2008 photo competition for delegates at its recent annual conference in Newport (12-14 October), with sponsorship from GOSS Interactive.
Frances, 25, wins Graham Williamson Challenge (travel award) 2008
Published: Wednesday 22nd October 2008
Socitm has awarded this year's Graham Williamson Challenge - a learning through travel award - to Frances Kettleday, a Technical Project Manager with Cambridgeshire County Council.
Socitm members vote to simplify membership to just two categories and to give all members equal voting rights
Published: Thursday 16th October 2008
vote marks first move towards vision of a democratic, professional and inclusive Society.
Socitm agrees partnership with Jadu and Gold-Vision to transform website and member services
Published: Monday 15th September 2008
Socitm has reached a three-way partnership agreement with Esteiro Business Solutions, authors of the Gold-Vision CRM system, and web content management vendor Jadu.
Closing date approaches for entries in Socitm’s Graham Williamson travel Award 08
Published: Friday 22nd August 2008
Entries in the Graham Williamson Challenge, Socitm’s travel award for people starting out on their career ICT, must be sent in to the Society by 1 September.
LG CIO Council meeting 3 July agrees brief from local government to take to the Government's CIO Council meeting 4 July
Published: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Work programme for LG CIO Council agreed and responsibilities allocated
Implications of our ‘instant access society’ to be examined at Socitm 2008
Published: Thursday 5th June 2008
The conference runs 12-14 October at Celtic Manor, Newport
Richard Steel, CIO at London Borough of Newham takes on Socitm Presidency as Society confirms first steps in change programme
Published: Monday 28th April 2008
Richard Steel, CIO at the London Borough of Newham has been confirmed as President of the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm).
Socitm Chief Executive resigns as Society sets new course following corporate review
Published: Friday 11th January 2008
Society of IT Management Chief Executive Kate Mountain will leave Socitm at the end of March.
NI 14 indicator fails to follow Varney advice on role of web as means of reducing ‘avoidable contact’ says Socitm response to CLG consultation
Published: Friday 4th January 2008
Proposed method of measuring other forms of 'avoidable contact' also flawed Further consultation essential if NI 14 to play useful role in councils’ channel strategies
Efficiency and security top council IT chiefs’ agenda says Socitm IT Trends 2007
Published: Wednesday 2nd January 2008
ICT spending forecast to increase by 9% to £3bn in 2007/08 following fall last year
Experts to promote technological solutions to social exclusion at upcoming Digital Inclusion workshop (London - 15 November)
Published: Tuesday 30th October 2007
Keynote speakers at a forthcoming Socitm Consulting workshop on Digital Inclusion will be arguing the case for technology as a key tool in addressing social exclusion.
Shey, 28, wins Socitm's Graham Williamson Challenge (travel award) 2007
Published: Friday 19th October 2007
Socitm has awarded this year’s Graham Williamson Challenge – a learning through travel award – to Shey Cobley, an online communications officer at Oxford City Council.
Socitm welcomes CSR07 boost for local government transformation
Published: Monday 15th October 2007
Service Transformation Agreement requirement to halve ‘avoidable contact’ with citizens will focus attention on t-government initiatives.
Top decision-makers targeted with DVD explaining the need for websites to be accessible to people with disabilities
Published: Wednesday 5th September 2007
Socitm has launched a new DVD to alert top decision-makers in both public and private sectors of the need for their organisations to have websites designed to be accessible to all.
Hot issues including shared services, web usability, take up, customer data integration, security and green IT feature in choice sessions at Socitm 2007
Published: Monday 3rd September 2007
Socitm has published details of the eleven ‘parallel sessions’ on the programme for Socitm 2007.
Socitm travel award 07 (Graham Williamson Challenge) now open for entries
Published: Wednesday 8th August 2007
Award open to local government ICT professionals starting out on their career
Socitm 2007 conference programme anticipates CSR07 challenges
Published: Friday 20th July 2007
The Comprehensive Spending Review and its implications will be looming large for all public sector managers this Autumn.
Small number of suppliers start to dominate as local authority software markets mature shows latest Socitm survey
Published: Friday 13th July 2007
Data collected by Socitm for its latest Index of Application Software shows that the trend for a small number of companies to dominate areas of the market as these mature is continuing.
Socitm plays leading role in European iSCAN initiative on network and internet security skills
Published: Friday 29th June 2007
Socitm-created content for skills programmes validated at June meeting of iSCAN UK skills organisations now being sought to run iSCAN courses
New report shows councils achieving very high take-up for range of online services
Published: Friday 22nd June 2007
£1m + pa being saved by Leicester City thanks to online recruitment Councils appear to lack corporate strategies for take-up
Socitm members' event on 12 June at GC Expo to focus on the DCLG's Business Improvement Package
Published: Monday 21st May 2007
Venue and timing: 1200 – 1300 12 June in the Westminster Room, Earl’s Court
Rose Crozier, ICT Head at Belfast City, becomes President of Socitm
Published: Monday 30th April 2007
Rose Crozier, who is Head of Information Services at Belfast City Council has been elected President of the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm).
Lyons fallout to feature on agenda at Socitm Spring Seminar
Published: Sunday 25th March 2007
Event is at Stoneleigh Park, Nr Coventry on 26 April.
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