Enterprise Networks is specifically designed for Communications, ICT, Network and Corporate Managers. It takes place on July 5 – 6 at Olympia 2, London. See www.enterprisenetworks.co.uk for details. Flexible Working in the Public Sector: ‘Smarter business through the use of technology’ is at the Rutherford Conference Centre, 76 Portland Place, London W1 on Tuesday 13 […]
Council member John Ellis, FIAP introduced, in March’s VSJ, some ideas about Web accessibility. Since then, in May, you’ll have seen Paul Lynham’s report on the presentation by Julie Howell from the RNIB to the Annual Symposium. Here, John takes things a stage further. In my last article on making Web sites more accessible to […]
New Web Site Features Have you visited www.iap.org.uk, the IAP Web site, recently? It may look the same, but under the covers it has been totally revamped. The features that were merely promised by the old site are now fully implemented. Members may find the following of particular interest: Email forwarding. If you feel FredBloggs123@hotmail.com […]
Peter Davey, MIAP has encountered some problems in tendering for security-sensitive contracts. Here’s his story. There is a ‘Chicken and Egg’ situation for companies tendering for contracts where the workers need to be cleared for security. When a position requires clearance, the ‘employer’ must sponsor a potential worker for vetting by the Security Agency for […]
Internet World 2004 runs between 15 and 17 June at Earl’s Court2, London. See www.internetworld.co.uk for details. GC2004Expo, the Government computing exhibition and conference, is at Earl’s Court1 on 23 and 24 June. See www.gcexpo.com for more. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]
As regular readers know, Council member Paul Lynham traditionally writes a report on the annual symposium to which we devote the whole of ‘IAP News’. Here’s this year’s. We met at Trinity House on 18 March. Director General Mike Ryan welcomed delegates and summarised recent changes including the new office, administrator and Webmaster. He also […]
Steve Cumbers, FIAP is a director of TopQuark and Vice President of the IAP Council to which he is standing for re-election this spring. Here, he treats us to an invigorating trot (well, gallop) through the history of modern physics pausing for breath at the gates of quantum computing about which, he tells me, he […]
Mike Ryan, the IAP’s Director General, talks about a new initiative and launches our own Big (well, Average-sized, anyway) Conversation. For many years, the IAP has had links to various organisations. For education and training bodies, these were formalised about six years ago into the Education Partnership scheme. Members will have seen reference in these […]
Robin Jones muses on the paradoxes of Internet shopping. Two reports in Computing, either side of Christmas, gave a considerable fillip to the e-commerce community. The first suggested that people are becoming much more comfortable with Web-based shopping. The third quarter of last year saw a turnover of £1.5 billion, over 80% up on the […]
Emma K. Fish, B.S.c Hons, LIAP is an accredited graduate in business systems analysis/design and project management (six months commercial SDLC ownership, SSADM with CASE Tools), with a number of years commercial experience in differing industries. Her skill base includes feasibility study specification, requirements analysis and specification, logical system specification and physical system design. Email […]
