News

• Government to move slowly on travel database

  The Home Office is planning to hold extensive data on just 40% of international journeys by the end of 2013
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  DoH spends £2.72m on Google Adwords

  The Department of Health has been promoting its online services through the use of Google's bidding systems

• Awards deadline extended

  Public sector organisations now have an extra week to submit entries for the GC Awards 2010

• NI unveils web IT careers tool

  Northern Ireland's Department for Employment and Learning has launched a web tool to help people considering careers in IT

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• IPS's double IT has risks, says commissioner

• Agency introduces 'opt out' flood alerts

• European database has 500,000 access points

• English Heritage tenders for infrastructure

• Becta tenders for assistive home technology

• Pupil database free of breaches

• Comment

• 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

• Living with risk

  Dominic Grieve has introduced a touch more honesty into the debate about privacy and personal information, argues Mark Say