Government

Biometrics4ALL, Inc., Attains Two FBI Certifications and Introduces a Revolutionary LiveScan Product

Biometrics4ALL, Inc., announced today that the company has launched a FBI certified LiveScan4ALL product suite. The LiveScan systems are in compliance with the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) highest quality specification (the Appendix F). The LiveScan4ALL product suite revolutionizes the LiveScan industry by offering a more intuitive graphical user interface and a technology that actually prevents operators from making manual mistakes during descriptor entry, hence significantly reducing submission rejections.

Updated: Fri Jun 10 2005

Councilwoman battles Public Safety layoffs

Nelson Cuba, president of Jacksonville Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge 5-30, stated "Councilwoman Johnson and her colleagues know the sacrifices made by public safety for the citizens of Jacksonville

Updated: Thu Jun 09 2005

Burrowes enjoys landslide election victory with voiceREACH technology

David Burrowes, MP, has been enjoying a surprise landslide 1,746 victory following the recent election, after deploying the latest voice and email messaging technology to help the Conservative Party keep in touch with local constituents in Enfield and Southgate, London.

Updated: Mon Jun 06 2005

Tribal Technology scores a hat trick of wins in South East local government

Three local authorities in the South East of England have chosen services from Tribal Technology since the start of 2005. Ealing Borough Council has renewed its commitment to the IT and information management systems specialist by signing a new contract for additional asset management services; Kent County Council has chosen Tribal Technology’s Enterprise Web Module to manage property data for over 600 schools; and the London Borough of Newham has awarded a new contract to Tribal Technology to supply the Enterprise Asset Management Plan (AMP) system to manage the council’s corporate property portfolio.

Updated: Thu Jun 02 2005

Smoother bureaucracy for Europe’s mobile workforce

As Europe’s citizens increasingly move between the 25 EU Member States how can public administrations provide user-friendly services to their ever-mobile citizens? Successful trials of a new platform demonstrate one possible solution.

Updated: Thu May 26 2005

THE NEW PARTY - Scottish Parliament Suffers Democracy Breakdown

The Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee today refused to hear seven petitions which had been submitted by the New Party. In a two minute manoeuvre, which had clearly been pre-planned, they broke with normal procedure and put the seven petitions, submitted over a three week period, into a single group. Several members of the committee then supported a motion by the committee chairman Michael McMahon MSP that the petitions be closed down without either looking at the issues raised or the background information which had been supplied.

Updated: Wed May 25 2005

The Scotland Six opt for Trainer1

Six of the largest Councils throughout Scotland now use the independent e-learning specialist, Trainer1, to train and support their in-house e-learning development staff.

Updated: Tue May 24 2005

Toward interoperability in EU-wide e-government

“Interoperability is currently the hot topic in e-government,” notes Themis Tambouris, the project manager of the IST programme-funded project EU-PUBLI.com.

Updated: Fri May 20 2005

The ‘Alternative’ Queen’s Speech - A Speech that Her Majesty might actually enjoy making for a chang

The Queen’s Speech will tomorrow set the tone for the forthcoming parliamentary session. However in keeping with the best New Labour traditions the content of the speech will hold few surprises. Judging from bills already in the pipeline such as ID cards, a new serious crime squad and a crackdown on anti-social behaviour we are to be first of all frightened. We will then be dictated to on how to run our lives by the introduction of new social legislation and the birth of the “Commission for Equality and Human Rights.” After we have been suitably chastened we will then be subjected to a raft of “holier than thou” bills such as corporate manslaughter which ignores the fact that it is the public sector which kills the most people (e.g., NHS, armed forces, sub-standard roads etc).

Updated: Mon May 16 2005

Enterprise management facilities for public authorities

Public authorities have long needed the equivalent of the enterprise management system – as used by leading companies around the world – but seldom had the resources to afford it. Now a new collaborative-working platform developed under the ICTE-PAN project may hold the solution.

Updated: Tue May 10 2005

Voting for online democracy

The Internet may be used to power elections in towns, cities, countries, and even across Europe thanks to the work of a recently completed project. It would mean voters could cast their ballots at home, in the street via mobile phones, or even when in another country.

Updated: Wed May 04 2005

THE NEW PARTY - Private Health Insurance for All

The New Party proposes to give everyone in the country private medical insurance to tackle waiting lists and relieve the pressure on the National Health Service. At present it costs £3,300 per taxpayer or £1,400 per head to run the NHS, although comprehensive medical insurance can be provided for less than £500 per person.

Updated: Fri Apr 29 2005

Callum becomes community councils' poster child

A two-year-old boy is currently starring in a new poster and leaflet campaign to promote community councils in West Lothian, central Scotland. Little Callum Reid can be seen in shops, libraries and supermarkets across the district.

Updated: Tue Apr 26 2005