Our colleagues in the Microsoft Corporate Government team have been busy producing a series of eBooks on Cloud Computing in Government that I thought were well worth bringing to your attention. They do carry the minor ‘health warning’ that...

The Department of Social Protection (DSP) provides the citizens of Ireland with a spectrum of social services and delivers payments to nearly 950,000 people a week. DSP oversees annual expenditures of over €20 billion, and it makes payments to nearly...

Cloud computing offers a number of ways for public sector organisations to reduce costs, improve efficiency and communicate better. Citizens want more involvement in how public information is used and the cloud can give them that. The innovative use of...

Transport for London (TfL), the integrated transport organisation responsible for the United Kingdom’s capital city, wanted to give its customers more real-time data about journey options. By encouraging developers to use TfL data to create new...

Microsoft partner IEG4 have been working with a number of public sector organisations in the UK to reduce cost and improve response times using cloud solutions based on Windows Azure . An in-depth case study that can be found here . Highlights include...

The rapidly evolving trend towards the ‘ consumerisation of IT ’ means that there is an increasing blurring of the boundaries between personal and corporate computing both at the device and the application level. The explosion of social media...

LoveCleanStreets is an award winning free online portal that helps people who live or work in London to upload photographs of community problems that require action by the local authority. The system—pioneered by the London Borough of Lewisham with...

Cloud computing requires a significant investment in secure, environmentally friendly datacentre facilities. Precisely how much of an investment becomes clear when you watch a video such as this explanation of Microsoft’s cloud datacentre infrastructure...

One of our aims with our blog is to bring you relevant examples and experience from public sector organisations around the world . The real world experience of other public sector CIOs is particularly valuable which is why today’s focus is on an...