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We bring you quite a short blog posting today but one that is none the less important - a new FloodAlerts website . With all the very heavy rain expected over the coming hours and days (while the summer goes AWOL), a brand new FloodAlerts website has been launched by Microsoft partner Shoothill. Based...

We’ve been attending UK GovCamp , an ‘unconference’ that aims to bring together public sector professionals to discuss best practice use of technology. The event lasts 2 days, read our day one wrap-up post to see what happened yesterday. As with yesterday and in the true ‘unconferencing’...

Despite not feeling much like it recently, Winter is upon us and, if the weather reports are to be believed, we are in for a bit of a battering over the next 48 hours. Every council around the UK will be battening down the hatches and preparing themselves for whatever the weather can throw at them and...

As a software company you could argue that Microsoft would say that technology saves money. On this occasion it is the Local Government Association saying it in their report on the value of geospatial information in the delivery of public services. Putting it more simply, the report clearly demonstrates...

“I’m waiting for my first pair of sunglasses with built-in GPS and a button for overlaying map data and providing navigation assistance right before my eyes. It will automatically check me into Foursquare and tweet my voice packets when I talk. It will then post it all to Facebook, which...

Leicestershire Constabulary provides a policing service to 925,000 people in Leicester and the surrounding area. The force aims to improve public confidence in the force by ensuring that all its officers are more keenly focused on the community safety issues that matter most to local people. More effective...

As part of my time back stage at T-in-the-Park ( see earlier Blog post ), I was also able to observe operations in the Joint Operations Control Centre by Tayside Police . I’ve attended a number of festivals with complete ignorance as to the emergency services operations that take place in the background...

Live in London*? Got a Windows Phone or an iPhone? Want to report an environmental problem in your borough for prompt action? You need to download the app for Love Clean Streets . LoveCleanStreets is an award winning free online portal that helps people who live or work in any of London’s 33...

The next Live Meeting in our regular series for our public sector customers is on Friday February 26 th 2010 from 12:00-13:00 . The topic for this Live Meeting is Mapping Solutions with Microsoft Bing Maps. In this Live Meeting Microsoft and partner ( CADline ) experts will examine GIS and mapping...

Event: Mapping for Local Government and the Public Sector There has been an explosion in the number of companies using mapping to help reduce costs, increase productivity and enable interaction. Local governments and public sector organisations are no exception to the rule with police forces, councils...