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Socitm president Jos Creese on why SocitmTV is a vital resource for CIOs and Socitm members.

Southwest One to save £200m with Strategic Procurement Service

Driving savings with better IT asset management

Durham drives down cost of ICT with smart procurement tool

The Self Service route to cost and efficiency savings

Driving superfast broadband at a local level: Antony Walker BSG interview

Southwest One to save £200m with Strategic Procurement Service

Revolutionary shared services provider Southwest One is on its way to saving around £200 million over 10 years through a Strategic Procurement Service for Somerset County Council, Taunton Deane Borough Council and Avon and Somerset Police.

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Durham drives down cost of ICT with smart procurement tool

Find out in this video how the innovative ITelligence tool from Mercato is radically saving time spent on ICT procurement administration, empowering buyers to make more informed buying decisions and releasing significant cost savings.

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Driving superfast broadband at a local level: Antony Walker BSG interview

In this interview, Antony Walker, Chief Executive of the Broadband Stakeholder Group provides top tips on addressing the challenges of engaging citizens, tackling hard-to-reach areas and encouraging investment locally.

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Learn how to drive efficiency with better use of IT

This video looks at the benefits of the e50 Learning Zone - an online platform that provides teaching tools on how technology can be applied to streamline and improve business processes.

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Socitm Futures Chair: Prepare now for Public Service Network and G-Cloud

In this interview, Socitm Futures Chair and Leeds City Council CIO, Dylan Roberts discusses how to prepare for the PSN now and shares his vision for a regionalised approach to enable councils to cherry-pick applications that best suit their needs.

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Leicester CC improves productivity and security with electronic document management

Find out in this video how Leicester City Council is dramatically increasing staff productivity, reducing cost and improving service delivery with an electronic document management system from Open Text.

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Part 3 of Expert guide to driving efficiency with technology: Automation

Find out – in this final part of the series – how to achieve maximum operational efficiencies by using innovative technology to restructure and improve your processes.

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Part 2 of Expert guide to driving efficiency with technology: Engaging your staff

Find out in this video what the public sector can learn from BT’s experience of successfully improving staff efficiency with innovative technology and reducing headcount without recourse to compulsory redundancies.

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Expert guide to driving efficiency with technology – Part 1

In this video, Chris Ainslie, Managing Director for Local Government at BT discusses how councils can plan their efficiency programmes and use IT to enable operational improvements.

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Exeter CC improves efficiency and customer service with electronic document management

In this video, Christine Sheldon, Web and IT Programe Manager for Exeter City Council discusses the benefits of the EDRMS and how the council ensured its successful implementation across 17 departments.

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G-Cloud and accelerating the green technology revolution

In this video, experts at Intellect provide practical tips on accelerating the use of low-carbon technology in your organisation and look at the exciting technological advances becoming available including intelligent transport and the G-Cloud.

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How councils can save money with managed IT services

This video looks at how InTechnology is providing organisations with flexible and affordable IT solutions – including data management and IP telephony – which boost productivity and save money.

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Socitm President Jos Creese: Transform your efficiency through IT

In this essential interview, Jos shares his vision for the critical role of IT in improving council services and provides insightful ways to lower the cost of your IT projects.

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LB Hackney on track to save £3.5m with electronic content management

In this video, Gillian Wheeldon, Head of eBusiness for the London Borough of Hackney discusses how the council is set to save a massive £3.5 million and transform information access by swapping paper files for an electronic document and records management system from Open Text.

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Green ICT policy: Catalina McGregor - United Nations ITU-T Liaison Officer interview

As United Nations Agency ITU-T Liaison Officer to OECD and EC, Catalina McGregor discusses the impact of incoming Green IT and climate change policies and provides early information on a 20% carbon reduction target currently being written for the ICT sector.

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Martha Lane Fox: Get citizens online for real savings

In this interview, UK Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox provides a practical action plan for councils to get their communities online and enable citizens to benefit from greater education and employment opportunities and more efficient transactions.

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David Smith (ICO) on preventing data breach fines of up to £500,000

In this interview David Smith, Deputy Commissioner for the ICO and Paul Walker, Product Specialist for Informatica discuss how automated solutions can dramatically reduce the risk of data breaches by ensuring sensitive information is properly stored and automatically removed when it should be.

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Transforming ICT efficiency in local government

In this interview, Tim Hearn, Director for Public Sector at Juniper Networks outlines the scale of the challenge and demonstrates how partnerships, shared services and the simplification of ICT infrastructure are all key to improving service efficiency.

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How e-learning is saving local government millions of pounds

This video looks at how Lincolnshire County Council has greatly benefited from being a member of the Learning Pool community through collaborating with other local authorities and adapting low cost, high impact learning solutions without reinventing the wheel.

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Electronic records boost efficiency and save money in Trafford

This video looks at how the Dart electronic document management system from Plumtree is supporting a “no notes” initiative in Trafford.

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Councils save hundreds of thousands of pounds with Open Source

This video explores how Linux IT has helped councils save hundreds of thousands of pounds with Open Source and enabled the Health Protection Agency to save money and improve its IT efficiency.

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Why social media is essential for councils: the Twitter Gritters Report

In this interview, Helen Williams, Socitm Insight Associate rounds up the findings of Socitm’s recent ‘Twitter Gritters’ report on how councils used internet sites to inform citizens about service disruptions during the bad weather conditions this year.

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Mobile computing transforms efficiency of community workers in North Lincolnshire

This video looks at the massive impact of mobile working in North Lincolnshire and how a new convertible laptop from Panasonic – the CF-C1 – is set to make the community worker the most efficient yet.

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Camden Council improves efficiency of IT projects with Open Source

Camden Council is driving efficiencies and cost savings since adopting Open Source software from Red Hat. Open Source has freed the council from expensive software licenses and enabled them to test IT projects at minimal cost before rolling out to the rest of the organisation.

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Managing increased IT security regulation in economic downturn

With constrained IT spending in the economic downturn but demand on services greater than ever, councils cannot afford to risk the huge financial penalties associated with data loss and internet attacks.

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Three councils streamline benefit claims with intelligent e-forms

Arun District Council, North Tyneside Council and Wealden District Council have significantly reduced the time taken to process benefits applications with an intelligent electronic application form.

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Engaging communities through high-speed broadband

At the recent Cabinet Office's Tower 09 Conference, Minister for Digital Engagement Tom Watson highlighted the importance of embracing digital technology in order to keep delivering the best public services. In this interview, Richard Steel, President of Socitm, shares his vision for a digital future and advises on how effective collaboration between Councils and the private sector will ensure digital engagement within Communities.

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Socitm: Driving ICT professional development – Rose Crozier interview

Rose Crozier, Vice President of Socitm discusses how Socitm is challenging perceptions of the ICT profession as a technical discipline and promoting it as a supporter of innovation and business goals.

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Socitm: Adding value to ICT and related professionals – Adrian Hancock interview

Socitm’s Managing Director Adrian Hancock discusses his vision for the society and how ICT and related professionals can benefit from Socitm’s range of professional development schemes and networking opportunities.

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Driving savings with better IT asset management

With IT a critical focus area for efficiency savings, councils can save significant amounts of money by more effectively tracking and managing their IT estates using a Configuration Management Database.

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The Self Service route to cost and efficiency savings

This video explores the growing acceptance of automated services by the public and how Leeds City Council, Tandridge District Council and London Borough of Ealing are using self service to realise substantial cost benefits and customer service improvements.

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Engaging citizens with interactive video technology

Watch this film to find out how compelling new video-based services are improving the participation of older citizens in the city of Almere, Netherlands and see what you can learn from their approach.

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Basildon Borough Council saves £2m with desktop virtualisation

Find out in this video how Basildon Borough Council has reduced office leasing costs by £2 million through a transformational flexible working programme supported by desktop virtualisation.

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Raising efficiency with data storage solution at Great Ormond Street Hospital

An innovative data storage solution is transforming workforce efficiency, ensuring business resilience and enabling secure sharing of information across multi-disciplinary teams at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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Gwynedd Council cuts costs by up to 86% with new green data centre

Find out in this video how Gwynedd Council has reduced power consumption and carbon footprint and improved security by upgrading to one of the most energy efficient data centres in the UK, designed and built by Comms Room Services.

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Intelligent IT tool transforms health and social care planning in Nottinghamshire

Find out in this video how Nottinghamshire County Council and the local PCT, is transforming health and social care planning with an innovative business intelligence tool based on critical demographic information.

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David Parsons on smart technology transforming council productivity

In this interview, David Parsons, Chair of the LGA Improvement Board provides best practice examples of how to use the latest technology to transform council services and raise productivity, for example satellites that make bin men more efficient.

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Electronic record management saves money and improves efficiency

This video looks at how the Academies Enterprise Trust is using a hosted solution from SDM Systems to enable each of its Academies to save £7000 a year by freeing up costly storage space, eliminating administrative burden and improving ease of access to files.

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Savings of £100m possible with more conferencing in local government

This video looks at how Kent County Council is using conferencing to eliminate unnecessary travel to and from meetings, improve staff efficiency and reduce carbon footprint.

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How to halve IT infrastructure costs with smarter data management

This video looks at how NetApp is helping local government to address the current austerity measures and increase productivity.

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Councils save millions and transform productivity with virtual computing

Find out in this video how Citrix has helped Hampshire County Council save over £2 million a year with virtual desktops and Basildon District Council to save just under £2 million on office leasing costs by virtualising applications to enable greater flexible working.

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Councils save 50% on IT admin costs with thin clients

This video looks at how Mole Valley District Council has reduced costs and carbon emissions by deploying thin client devices from IGEL Technology.

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Councils save up to £1m a year with better customer relations management

This video explores how Wakefield City Council has transformed customer service delivery with the MultiVue Identification Server from VisionWare. The customer relations management software has improved the accuracy of customer identification, reduced call times and increased customer satisfaction.

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Carbon offsetting enables green IT without increasing costs

This video looks at how a Carbon Zero Scheme from Toshiba and CO2 Balance helps organisations to reduce the environmental impact of their printing products by enabling a carbon reduction project in Kenya.

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Benefit e-forms save money and improve customer service at Torbay Council

This video demonstrates how the e-forms from IEG4 are streamlining benefit claims and more than halving processing times.

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Hampshire CC boosts efficiency with secure flexible working

This video looks at how Hampshire County Council has worked with Juniper Networks to implement a secure remote access solution called Hantsnet Passport. The passport system has reduced the need for travel and substantially saved on office space by enabling staff to work from home and multiple office locations.

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How to save money through digital inclusion

In this interview, Tristan Wilkinson, Director for Public Sector at Intel discusses how increasing digital participation can improve efficiency and reduce costs.

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Boosting public sector efficiency through cost effective e-learning

This short video looks at how Learning Pool, the UK’s the largest public sector learning community, can help organisations boost efficiency and build capacity with innovative and cost-effective e-learning.

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Greater efficiency and better customer service with electronic information management

In this interview Adrian Butcher, Director for Value Engineering at Open Text, advises councils on the areas where they can drive most benefit from electronic processes and how to realise short-term savings, for example by supporting greater flexible working.

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Mobile computing innovations to transform efficiency of community workers

This video looks at the cutting-edge innovations from Panasonic that are enabling community workers to perform even more tasks while mobile.

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Councils save millions with greener printing solutions

In this interview, Andrew Hall from OKI Printing Solutions advises on the low and no cost changes to printing practices that can save councils cost and energy. He also advises on the impact of replacing expensive, outsourced printing with printing in-house.

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Hounslow Council transforms efficiency with new data centre

Hounslow Council has achieved a vast improvement in efficiency and public services since undertaking a transformational refurbishment of their data centre.

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Reducing local government IT spend by 85% with Open Source

With local government IT spend hitting record levels, Phil Andrews, UK Director for Red Hat discusses how Open Source software can contain the cost of IT projects by around 85%.

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Imperial College London overcomes spam and phishing threats with email security solution

To protect staff from an increasing volume of unwanted spam and malicious emails, Imperial College London has successfully introduced a powerful email security solution and achieved unprecedented control over unsolicited email content.

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Birmingham City Council's transformation programme to deliver £1bn savings

Birmingham City Council is delivering the largest and most ambitious Business Transformation Programme of its kind and is set to achieve over £1 billion cashable savings within 10 years.

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Socitm: Leading policy and representing members – Martin Ferguson interview

Martin Ferguson, Head of Policy for Socitm explores how Socitm is strengthening its policy position on a range of important issues, from the current financial pressures to climate change and Digital Britain.

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Socitm: Promoting information assurance to achieve transformation – Mark Brett interview

Mark Brett, Head of Information Assurance for Socitm explains why information assurance is imperative if the public sector is to realise the benefits of sharing information electronically.

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