News

• DWP increased development spending by a third

  The Department for Work and Pensions increased its IT development budget from £224m in 2006-07 to £303m in 2008-09 to introduce online services

• Police services emerge from 'hack day'

  Developers have created new services using open government data, focusing on crime and the police

• Birmingham launches emergency alerts service

  The UK's largest city council has introduced a new multi-channel service to warn of emergency incidents

• Home Office databases breached 11 times

  The department has disclosed a number of security breaches as its e-Borders scheme comes under attack from the Conservatives

• More news

• Nottinghamshire to spend £75m on schools ICT

• GCHQ admits contract management 'weaknesses'

• Scottish Parliament calls for telehealth expansion

• NPIA to commercialise data sharing service

• Jobcentre Plus launches phone app

• Tories want IT 'skunkworks'

• Comment

• Let's have more connecting for health

  The NHS National Programme for IT's core strength is infrastructure. It should turn its attention to mobile and wireless connectivity, argues SA Mathieson

• A safe strategy

  The government's new ICT strategy is all about saving money, but leaves scope for another on the more controversial issues, writes Mark Say

• England: big enough to fail

  Provincial England's health service suffers from its size when trying to develop informatics, says SA Mathieson

• A failure to learn

  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report on the C-Nomis project suggests that parts of the public sector have been very slow to learn the lessons of earlier failures, writes Mark Say