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As you may have read on our blog last week, Microsoft will have a significant presence at this year’s Civil Service Live event in London – 2-3 rd July. We will be there alongside Esri , Government departments and SME partners on our ‘Understanding our World’ hub. Here is a...

Microsoft’s cloud computing platform is now accredited to store and communicate data securely up to the UK Government’s Impact Level 2 classification. Reading, UK. — 04/04/13 — Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Windows Azure, has been awarded Impact Level 2 (IL2)...

The public sector is well on it's way to being digital-savvy, but here's a look at what lies in future technology for us as people, as consumers and as employees... 1. Safer heart surgery . Surgeons are using Kinect to access patient records from the operating room to avoid scrubbing in and out during...

Here is a great UK-specific post from Michael Wignall who leads the public sector team for Microsoft Dynamics in the UK, focusing on customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for Central, Local and Regional Government, Public Safety and National Security, Health and Education customers. It...

Chris Anderson, CTO at the City of London, talks to our journalist Helen Olsen about the benefits the City has gained from joining the Shared Learning Group (SLG). Prior to joining the group, the council had evaluated the CRM market, opting for a Microsoft solution - at the same time committing to a...

As governments around the world look for ways to operate more efficiently, cloud computing continues to gain momentum as a solution for many public sector organisations. However, amid all of this momentum, we continue to see the necessity of sound policies and strategic cooperation among nations in order...