South Yorkshire Housing Association; Surrey Wildlife Trust; the North Yorkshire branch of public sector trade union UNISON; and a local food grower’s campaign group outside of Manchester are among local and regional websites designated for permanent digital preservation by The National Archives. After experience of archiving central government websites, The National Archives announced last year that [...]

Only 12% of council websites are easy to access and navigate from a typical mobile device, despite rapid increases in mobile web use, according to the latest “Better Connected” review of all UK council websites. Overall, however, standards of usability from mobile devices have improved over the past year. A total of 433 local authority sites [...]

Central government is lagging up to five years behind local government in implementation of mobile services to citizens, one service provider with extensive UK public sector experience has told E-Government Bulletin. The scale of rolling out mobile projects at central government level means projects take longer to deploy, and so progress has been quicker at [...]

A project assigning council street service workers geographical zones and giving them mobile devices to run multiple services in teams is being launched this summer by Colchester Borough Council. The council has divided its area into seven zones of various sizes depending on geography and population. Workers using a variety of smartphones and tablet computers will [...]

A lightweight mobile enforcement system developed by the City of Rotterdam is the most comprehensive and flexible of its kind anywhere in the world, the city council has told E-Government Bulletin. The “iThor” system is built around parking enforcement and monitoring of other street and environmental issues, but has the potential to be expanded to cover [...]

Almost all UK local authorities now make official use of social media, with many councils now running multiple accounts to cover different services and projects, a report due out next month will find. The annual “Better Connected” snapshot report of UK council websites, published by the Society of IT Management (Socitm), is set to include a [...]

The administration of the Hungarian city of Miskolc is moving to a desktop system based on open source, in order to become less dependent on a single proprietary IT vendor and to reduce costs for its desktop PCs. Already 60 percent of the civil servants use Open Office and Libre Office, two closely related open source suites of office tools.

The administration of the Hungarian city of Miskolc is moving to a desktop system based on open source, in order to become less dependent on a single proprietary IT vendor and to reduce costs for its desktop PCs. Already 60 percent of the civil servants use Open Office and Libre Office, two closely related open source suites of office tools.

The city next wants to replace its proprietary PC operating systems by moving to Ubuntu GNU/Linux, says Peter Szakal, a consultant at Open SKM, an open source IT service provider that is assisting the public administration with its migration.

The administration of the Hungarian city of Miskolc is moving to a desktop system based on open source, in order to become less dependent on a single proprietary IT vendor and to reduce costs for its desktop PCs. Already 60 percent of the civil servants use Open Office and Libre Office, two closely related open source suites of office tools.

The city next wants to replace its proprietary PC operating systems by moving to Ubuntu GNU/Linux, says Peter Szakal, a consultant at Open SKM, an open source IT service provider that is assisting the public administration with its migration.

On 7 October 2011, a meeting held with UK Government officials succeeded in freeing up the process by which Bristol City Council will be able to implement open source solutions. The Council’s undertaking is seen as pioneering the procedure by which UK local governments can employ open source.

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On 7 October 2011, a meeting held with UK Government officials succeeded in freeing up the process by which Bristol City Council will be able to implement open source solutions. The Council’s undertaking is seen as pioneering the procedure by which UK local governments can employ open source.

On 7 October 2011, a meeting held with UK Government officials succeeded in freeing up the process by which Bristol City Council will be able to implement open source solutions. The Council’s undertaking is seen as pioneering the procedure by which UK local governments can employ open source.

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