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eWell-Being
Awards Ceremony 2008
The eWell-Being Awards are the UK’s only national awards
to celebrate the social, economic and environmental benefits of
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). They showcase the
most innovative uses of ICT by local authorities, businesses, third
sector organisations and academic
institutions.
The prestigious Awards event will offer
guests and VIP’s the opportunity to hear about the latest ‘state of
the art’ sustainable ICT projects and network with representatives
of short-listed projects and senior representatives from central and
regional government, manufacturers and suppliers. More than 170
guests from the private and public ICT sector attended the 2007
ceremony.
The evening will commence with a champagne
reception followed by a three course gala dinner and awards
ceremony.
Tickets are available
at:
- £150 + VAT private
companies
- £100 + VAT public
sector
- £75 + VAT
charities and NGOs
Discounts are available for group
bookings.
For further information and book tickets
contact Richard Craven on
01733 311644.
As part of our media partnership with The
Independent there will be a 16 page full size supplement feature on
the Awards, published in The Independent on Tuesday 6th
May. In addition 2,000 glossy full colour A4 size copies of the
supplement will be produced and be made available at the Awards
ceremony on Wednesday 30th April.
We are offering you the opportunity to
purchase advertising space within the supplement, enabling you to
associate your organisation with the national Awards programme and
access The Independent’s
circulation of c.250,000 (readership of around
700,000).
To take advantage of this offer contact
Niki Audsley, External
Affairs Manager at UK CEED on 01733 311644 or email to
n.audsley@ukceed.org
Now on with this month’s
news…
Richard
Craven
SustainIT
Greening
IT
Green IT Departments Saves
Money
Intellect Report
Highlights the Role of ICT in Tackling Climate
Change
Better
Ways of Working
Review of Policing
highlights the need for Technology
Worldwide Connectivity
Scorecard
Improving
Public Services
Text Messaging tackles
obesity in NHS Primary Care Trust
General
News
Wholesale Broadband
Decision from EU
Microsoft Service Pack
One Incompatibility Issues
Broadband the Next
Generation Review
Greening
IT
Green IT
Departments Saves
Money
Big savings in energy costs and opening new
markets are among the top drivers for companies making their IT
departments more energy efficient, according to new research from
PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
The PricewaterhouseCoopers report is based
on both a global on-line survey of technology industry executives
conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and in-depth personal
interviews with industry leaders and PwC subject matter
professionals. There are two main drivers of sustainability movement
in the technology industry, both economic rather than altruistic:
the potential to increase revenue through the increasing demand for
greener products and services and the desire to decrease
expenditures by reducing energy
consumption.
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Intellect Report
Highlights the Role of ICT in Tackling Climate
Change
Climate change, pollution and "resource
degradation" are singled out by the authors of the report, "High
Tech, Low Carbon: the Role of Technology in Tackling Climate
Change”.
Click here to read
the full report. Top
Better
Ways of Working
Review
of Policing highlights the
need for Technology
The report by Sir Ronnie Flanagan, the Chief
Inspector of Constabulary, identifies a new technology driven model
of policing in which the police direct resources specifically to
areas that will have the biggest impact on reducing harm to
communities.
The review included the following key
points:
Reducing bureaucracy
Reduce
the amount of information routinely recorded for many crimes while
retaining extensive recording for serious crimes - trialling a new
streamlined crime recording process across four forces -
Staffordshire, Leicestershire, West Midlands and Surrey.
Better collaborative working of
the agencies currently responsible for inspecting and auditing the
police, including HMIC, to prevent duplication and share best
practice.
Overhaul of the stop and
account process - removing the form and replacing with a 'receipt'
of the encounter and a verbal record on Airwave that an encounter
has taken place (with the person's ethnicity). This will be trialled
this year.
That the receipt based system
for stop and search remain, but be streamlined as new technology
emerges.
The adoption of standardised forms based on
the minimum appropriate reporting requirements as recommended in his
interim report needs to be followed by the implementation of mobile
data technology over time, such as handheld
computers.
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Worldwide
Connectivity Scorecard
The Connectivity Scorecard is a pioneering
global information and communications technology (ICT) index that
measures the extent to which governments, businesses and consumers
make use of connectivity technologies to enhance social and economic
prosperity.
For each component of the Scorecard,
countries are benchmarked against the best in class in their tier;
thus if a country was best in all dimensions it would score a
maximum of 10.0. Countries typically considered to be highly
connected achieved only modest scores on the Scorecard – the average
score for a group of 16 countries that include the
U.S.,
Sweden and
Korea was
5.05.
The Connectivity Scorecard ranks the
United
States first in a group of 16
innovation driven economies (as defined by the World Economic
Forum), although its score is only 6.97 out of a possible
10.0.
Click here
to read the report Top
Text
Messaging tackles obesity in
NHS Primary Care Trust
An innovative scheme to use mobile
technology to obtain a patient’s weight has proved a great success
in Hammersmith & Fulham NHS Primary Care Trust
(PCT).
Funded centrally by Hammersmith and Fulham
PCT, the service provided by iPLATO specifically targets important
public health concerns such as smoking, flu and childhood
immunisation and obesity. A crucial aspect of delivering these goals
is iPLATO’s ability to integrate to multiple GP systems and
therefore to enable surgeries to base their mobile patient services
on live data residing in their patients’ electronic
records.
Mandy Norton, Practice Manager at The Bush
Doctors said, ‘’Text messaging has been a massive help, enabling us
to gather a patient’s weight quickly in order to calculate their
BMI. Of course we weigh people at the surgery, but this method
allows us to quickly and very cost effectively update the records of
people who may not need our services very often. With mobile being
the communication method of choice for our very varied patient base
and with obesity levels being where they are, we feel that this is a
perfect complement to our current service ’’. Top
General
News
Wholesale Broadband
Decision from EU
EU regulators have accepted proposals from
Ofcom, the UK industry watchdog, to
scrap provisions that mean BT is required to offer a nationwide
broadband service to competitors at a fixed
price.
The Commission confirmed that Ofcom's
proposals for regulating this sector are consistent with the rules
set out in the EU framework and that the decision to tailor
regulation to local competitive conditions through the
identification of sub-national markets is
justified.
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Microsoft Service
Pack One Incompatibility Issues
Microsoft has posted a list of applications
which will be incompatible with the forthcoming Windows Vista
Service Pack 1.
The list of programs affected by SP1 is
divided into three. Some will be blocked by the update, some will
not run and others will lose some of their
functions.
Three other applications are said to
experience additional performance issues, such as crashes or loss of
functionality. The New York Times Reader application crashes when a
user attempts to right click, while the Rising Personal Firewall
utility is unable to disconnect. Updates for both applications are
available.
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Broadband the Next
Generation Review
The Business and Competitiveness Minister,
Shriti Vadera has launched an independent review into next
generation broadband networks.
The review will consider possible barriers
to role out and will look at barriers to collaboration between
content and infrastructure providers.
Government Minister, Shriti Vadera said:
“The way we will do business, access many government services, as
well as information and entertainment, will change beyond
recognition over our lifetime. New technologies will push the
boundaries of today’s communications infrastructure.”
The key areas the review will consider will
be:
- To consider the
possible barriers to any new models of investment, involving
collaboration between telecommunications suppliers and between
suppliers and content providers and identify potential solutions
- To examine whether
there are opportunities to minimise the cost of private sector
investment, including whether there is a public sector role in
this respect, for example related to civil works
- To examine the
framework within which investment will take place to promote a
more certain investment environment
- To clarify the
treatment of new infrastructure options within the non-domestic
rating system
- To examine whether
the EU and UK statutory framework
has given Ofcom the necessary powers to establish a regulatory
regime which would provide regulatory certainty for investors and
sufficiently incentivise new investment in high speed access Top
About
SustainIT
SustainIT
is an initiative of The UK Centre for Economic and Environmental
Development (UK CEED), an independent, entrepreneurial research
foundation. It conducts research on, and provides good practice
examples of, synergies between ICT and sustainable development.
For more information visit www.sustainit.org or contact us
on +44 (0)1733 311644.
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