http://www.silicon.com Results for conservatives en-us http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://www.silicon.com 124 50 News feed from silicon.com http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://comment.silicon.com/weeklyroundup/0,39024756,39661658,00.htm Onto another example of bloated, out of shape IT: the government ID card project continues to rumble on regardless, despite nobody seeming to know what the benefits are, and the fact that the Conservatives are promising to cancel the whole thing... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:36:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/agenda-setters-2009/george-osborne-39547921.htm Osborne and the Conservatives want to achieve this by relying on common hardware and open data formats. The Conservatives hope that smaller IT projects will be easier to manage and less prone to delays and running tens or hundreds of millions over... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:20:48 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39525923,00.htm The Conservatives have said they will cut back on government databases and increase public privacy if they win the next election. The Conservatives have pledged to cut government databases (photo credit: Maurice via Flickr under the following... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:39:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39493806,00.htm However, that could be about to change: a handful of healthcare institutions are starting to offer online access to records and, if elected, the Conservatives are keen to allow patients to view and update their records over the web, using public... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:49:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39481570,00.htm The Conservatives propose abandoning the idea of a single medical record for each patient in England, in favour of separate electronic medical records for each hospital and GP surgery, based on common data formats to allow records to be shared... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:46:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39472095,00.htm But the scheme faces an uncertain future, as the Conservatives have pledged to scrap ID cards if the party is elected next year. This is the first glimpse at what the British ID card will look like. The design for the British cards was unveiled by... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:03:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://comment.silicon.com/weeklyroundup/0,39024756,39465602,00.htm Besides, the debacle is doomed anyway if the Conservatives win the next General Election. Phishing has become a constant nuisance for the good denizens of Planet Interweb. Rarely a day goes by when you don't get a badly worded email from a bank you... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:34:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39462537,00.htm The Conservatives have also pledged to scrap the scheme if elected next year. The government has spent millions of pounds on a project to provide airport staff with ID cards - despite doubts over whether any workers will actually take part in the... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:00:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39453994,00.htm Following the announcement of PCeU's creation late last year, the Conservatives and business leaders criticised the level of its funding allocated to the unit - £7m over three years, saying it's not enough to tackle a criminal threat worth... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:23:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39452609,00.htm On Wednesday, the Conservatives called for the extradition treaty between the UK and the US to be reviewed to avoid injustice to those accused, citing the case of McKinnon as an example. The Conservative Party has championed the case of Gary... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:48:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39451666,00.htm We will scrutinise these contracts closely but the Conservatives are committed to dropping the ID cards scheme and the national register," shadow immigration minister Damian Green told silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK on Friday. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:24:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39449322,00.htm Despite ongoing criticism of the scheme, the Conservatives lost a vote on the motion "That this House believes the government's identity cards scheme should be cancelled immediately", with 293 MP's voting against and 203 for. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:37:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39449316,00.htm Seven years into the project and the Conservatives want to put it under the knife. The Conservatives have come up with a new vision of how to fix the problems plaguing Labour's £12.7bn revamp of NHS IT - put it under the private sector knife. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:07:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://networks.silicon.com/telecoms/0,39024659,39449351,00.htm If elected, the Conservative Party would take away Ofcom's policy-making functions, David Cameron said on Monday. The Tory leader was making a speech attacking quangos - of which the telecoms regulator is one of the most prominent. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:51:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39447394,00.htm The Conservatives have pledged to scrap the ID card scheme should they win the next general election. The government has announced it will drop plans to make ID cards compulsory for airside workers. Pilots and other airside workers will not be... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:30:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39443428,00.htm The Conservatives have urged a group of technology suppliers not to sign contracts for work related to ID cards, as the party will scrap the scheme if it is elected to power. Damian Green, the shadow immigration minister, told silicon.com sister... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:26:02 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39427411,00.htm The Conservatives have said they would scrap ID cards, while privacy and civil liberties campaigners have been the most vocal opponents. MP David Blunkett, architect of the National Identity Scheme, has said there has been a "massive drop" in... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Tue, 05 May 2009 08:45:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39387536,00.htm In the statement, the Conservatives released recommendations drawn up by Mark Thompson, a lecturer in information systems at Cambridge University's Judge Business School. Thompson was asked by the Conservatives in March to assess how open source... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:21:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://management.silicon.com/smedirector/0,39024679,39372005,00.htm The Conservatives also detailed plans to introduce a green index to trade the shares of companies doing business in the environmental sector from the UK and around the world. Conservative leader David Cameron has today set out plans that could see... editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:16:01 +0000 http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/siliconfeed/http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39372000,00.htm The Conservatives however have come out in favour of a UK fibre deployment. Prime Minister Gordon Brown looks to have given the go ahead to a recession-busting programme of investment that could see super-fast broadband rolled out across the UK. editorial@silicon.com (Silicon Editorial) Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:58:01 +0000