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Big O to control finance, payroll, purchasing and HR

Sandwell plans to meet the 2005 e-government deadline with a £6m implementation of and Oracle suite covering finance, purchasing, human resources and payroll.

Read more: UK: Council chooses Fujitsu for £6m e-government deal

National Technical Assistance Centre for internet surveillance up and running after delays

The UK government's new £25m internet surveillance centre has become fully operational, vnunet.com can reveal.

Read more: UK: Government web snoops go online

Private sector e-services providers feel left out of Whitehall's new intermediaries policy

The Office of the e-Envoy's attempt to involve the private sector in delivering public services threatens to exclude smaller businesses and start ups, it was claimed on 11 June 2003.

Read more: UK: Out of the mix

Mayor of Lewisham Steve Bullock today gave his support to a new technology project aimed at helping residents in Lewisham use the Internet. The project is being launched by Lewisham Council together with Fujitsu Consulting and Microsoft.

The project team will be taking the AVANTI roadshow, a hi-tech double decker bus kitted out with personal computers and the latest information technology, to Lewisham Shopping Centre, Lewisham Town Centre on Monday July 29 from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm, allowing local residents the opportunity to use and test this exciting new way to deliver services.

Read more: UK: Plugging the digital divide

The Office of the e-Envoy has missed milestone targets for offering e-government services, which is of no great surprise to anyone that follows the fortunes of technology in government, be it central or local.

The slippage was small and it believes that this can be grabbed back before the next deadline is reached. The targets were always ambitious, and hopefully its confidence can be matched with action.

Read more: UK: E-envoy misses milestone targets

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