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Global CEM Leader that Provides Software to Top Multinational Brands like Goldman Sachs, Tiffany & Co. and Nokia, Expands its Award-Winning Platform to Europe
CEM Platform Helps Employers and Governments Conduct Coronavirus Contact Tracing and Critical Communications for a Safer Return to Offices and Other Public Spaces
Registrations
Continue reading Everbridge Launches Fully Integrated Critical Event Management (CEM) Solution in Europe That Helps Organizations Mitigate Crises and Manage the Safe Return to Work After COVID-19 Lockdowns
Reporter: Stuart Littleford – News
Peers have launched a new inquiry to ask what lessons for our public services can be learned from the coronavirus pandemic.
The House of Lords Select Committee on Public Services, set up to examine the transformation of public services to ensure that they are fit for the 21st century, will
Continue reading Peers launch first probe into lessons for public services from COVID-19
By Graham Jarvis, Freelance Business and Technology Journalist for GPSJ
The Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is spreading rapidly throughout the world and scientists are racing to find a vaccine. Big Data analytics, data visualisation and artificial intelligence are also being recruited to track the spread of the virus. This is with the aim of helping governments
Continue reading Pandemic: How A.I. and WAN Acceleration Can Help to Find a Cure
WPS, the award-winning parking solutions provider, is continuing to deliver essential maintenance and installation work for customers within key sectors such as healthcare and utilities to ensure 24-hour availability of essential parking infrastructure.
Simon Jarvis
Simon Jarvis, Managing Director of WPS in the UK, says that while some other parking system providers have
Continue reading WPS continues to support essential workers in critical sectors
Cari-Anne Quinn
Wales’ leading organisation for healthcare innovation is calling on companies and innovators from across the country to join the fight against coronavirus.
Life Sciences Hub Wales is leading industry efforts to combat COVID-19 by launching a nation-wide drive to get companies from a range of sectors working together on solutions. Having
Continue reading Life Sciences Hub Wales calls for industry collaboration to fight coronavirus
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
Modernisation is a constant process and shouldn’t have a clear finishing point, whether it’s for the network, data centre, cloud, or IT management tools. This is necessary to ensure all systems and devices are up-to-date, functioning at the highest level and, particularly
Continue reading Don’t Get Your Network in Knots: A 5-Step Plan for Government Modernisation
Jim Roberts, Director at Fourth Street, reacts to the recent controversy over the use of public parks during the Covid-19 crisis
Our public parks were both a blessing and a battleground on the first sunny weekend of spring this year.
People flocked to their nearest park for some much-needed respite from weeks of tough,
Continue reading Parks in a Pandemic
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
BASW Chair and CEO issue letter to Prime Minister to support social workers
Social workers are on the front line of efforts to minimise the impact of Covid-19 across the four countries of the UK and undertake a range of statutory duties, including protecting vulnerable children and adults, supporting disabled adults and
Continue reading BASW calls on the Prime Minister to provide essential PPE and guidance for social workers and include as priority group for testing
Unremitting financial pressures, ongoing staff reductions and the unforgiving need to deliver new political initiatives against tight budgets are leading local, regional and national government managers across the UK to turn to outsourced private sector business transformation experts for the delivery of organisational change and new services.
A leading supplier of this kind of high-level
Continue reading Under Pressure Public Sector Managers Turn to Private Sector Boardroom Expertise
VPS Smart Tower being off loaded from truck
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Police forces across the UK are having to carry out extra night patrols in empty city and town centres, as burglars target shops, pubs and other commercial premises during the coronavirus lockdown.
Collating intelligence data from police reports, news items, and their
Continue reading Surge in break-ins at pubs, shops, offices and construction sites during coronavirus lockdown
CIoJ President, Professor Tim Crook
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
The Chartered Institute of Journalists is calling for the emergency government measures to help businesses cope with the COVID-19 crisis to be extended to individual freelance journalists known as ‘sole-traders.’
The Institute says individual freelances are already experiencing substantial cancellation of contracts, assignments and projects
Continue reading CIoJ calls on government to provide emergency support for freelance journalists
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
Once upon a time, automation was mainly associated with manufacturing assembly lines and little else. Fortunately, we’ve moved past assembly lines; automation today plays a critical role within an optimised IT environment in everything from robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) to
Continue reading IT Pros and Automation: A Match Made in Heaven
George Brasher
George Brasher, Managing Director, HP UK and Ireland talks exclusively to GPSJ
Talking to GPSJ editor, Stuart Littleford, George said: “With the new decade well underway, government departments are rightly continuing to explore new digital frontiers. From recent conversations with industry and government leaders.” He has identified five public sector trends
Continue reading GPSJ Exclusive: Top Five Tech Trends Impacting the UK Public Sector
Institute of Economic Development Executive Director Nigel Wilcock has told GPSJ:
“This might be the budget that brings Keynes back in vogue with the Office for Budget Responsibility expecting the expansionary measures to create a demand-led economic boost. Certainly, from the budget speech there was little not to like – some emergency fiscal loosening, some
Continue reading Comments to GPSJ on the 2020 Budget
By Evan Wienberg, co-founder and CEO of Truespeed
A new year is a time for renewal and resolutions. The UK government’s plans to invest billions in infrastructure transformation in the budget on March 11 and shape up the UK’s digital economy by accelerating the delivery of full fibre broadband across the country are undoubtedly full
Continue reading Full fibre broadband – balancing private and public investment
Latest updates as Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes government appointments:
The Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the appointment of:
Lord Callanan as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
Gillian Keegan MP as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Education.
Paul
Continue reading Latest updates on ministerial appointments
The Chartered Institute of Journalists has condemned the government’s crass and immature bullying of journalists and warns that it needs to ‘grow up’ and show respect for media freedom.
Institute President, Janice Shillum, says: “Only authoritarian governments snarl at the media and retaliate against criticism with threats and petty restrictions. So it is of immense
Continue reading Exclusion of media critics from Downing Street briefings sets dangerous precedent, warns Chartered Institute of Journalists
Sylvia Sage
Reporter: Stuart Littleford
Over the past 18 months, House of Commons authorities have come under repeated fire for their lack of action to address bullying and harassment.
Dame Laura Cox, who authored a report in 2018 which laid bare the scale of the problem, criticised the slow pace of progress a
Continue reading Tackling bullying and harassment in Westminster
The Government wishes to see a future relationship based on friendly cooperation between sovereign equals for the benefit of all our peoples. There is complete certainty that at the end of 2020 the process of transition to that relationship will be complete and that the UK will have recovered in full its economic and political
Continue reading The Future Relationship between the UK and the EU
Evan Wienburg,
By Evan Wienburg, co-founder and CEO of Truespeed
A new year is a time for renewal and resolutions. The UK government’s plans to invest billions in infrastructure transformation in the budget on March 11 and shape up the UK’s digital economy by accelerating the delivery of full fibre broadband across the
Continue reading Full fibre broadband – balancing private and public investment
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