UK universities to adopt cloud shared services

February 8th, 2011

The Higher Education Funding Council of England (HEFCE) has announced that it will put forward £12.5 million (US$20 million) towards a new cloud computing shared initiative for universities, futuregov.asia reports.
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Big shift in the UK’s digital strategy

November 25th, 2010

Right after the announcement that the government CIO John Suffolk would resign at the end of the year 2010, Jayne Nickalls, chief executive of the online governmental portal Directgov also leaves her post. And this happened just days before Martha Lane Fox, the official British digital champion, released her report on the government’s central web portal
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David Cameron launches a transparency website

November 9th, 2010

David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, launched a transparency website for the British government on the 8th of November. This new government portal enables citizens to track departmental progress along with details of job listings, salary information along
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Number 10 nearly doubles web traffic

November 5th, 2010

Downing Street said that in October number10.gov.uk received 769,850 page views, with 317,136 visits from 244,833 unique users, publicservice.co.uk reported.

The figures were comparatively much lower in september with the Downing Street web portal
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