As readers will know, we broke with tradition for this year’s spring event. However you can’t throw out all your customs at once, so we prevailed on Council member Paul Lynham to write his usual report. This year’s meeting of the IAP membership was held on the famous WW2 cruiser HMS Belfast, now permanently moored […]

Top Up Your Points! When a member joins the IAP, he or she provides us with a detailed CV, which we evaluate to determine the appropriate initial grade of membership. You all know that, because you no doubt spent much time trying to remember when you did that OOP course, how many staff you were […]

Robin Jones gives some thought to recent security issues and invents the VTC. What’s a VTC? Well, read on… Hardly a week goes by without a report of some major company’s data having been potentially compromised by the loss or theft of a notebook computer. At the time of writing, the most recent example is […]

IT Works 2007 and the International IT in the Community Conference will take place concurrently at the University of Sunderland, an IAP Education Partner, on 5 and 6 July. See www.itevent.org for more details. [Got an activity or event coming up? Email eo@iap.org.uk with the details.]

You may recall that, a while ago, we introduced to you the IAP Panel, a group of experienced Fellows whom we consult to distil an IAP View on political issues affecting IT for publication on the Civil Service Web site. We’re reprinting here the first fruit of their deliberations. The IAP View: Ageism The IT […]

Mike Ryan, the Director General, talks about changes to the IAP Council June 1st sees the start of the Institution’s new administrative year 2007/2008. This is the date when five members of the Council stand down by rotation and are hopefully re-elected or replaced by even more enthusiastic new people. Three of our current members […]

Robin Jones considers some of the issues associated with the development of home working. Much of the time, I work at home. There’s no reason not to. There are few things that can’t be done via the telephone, the (now almost redundant) fax, email and various flavours of remote access software at least as well […]

Adobe Live is at the Business Design Centre London on 5 and 6 June. More information is at www.adobe-live.com. Forrester’s IT Forum EMEA 2007 is in Edinburgh from 11 to 13 June. Further details are at www.forrester.com/itfemea2007. GCExpo is at Earls Court, London on 12 and 13 June. See www.kablenet.com for more. SCL Annual Conference […]

As part of her MSc in E-Business at the University of Westminster, Angelina Jones, AMIAP has been researching the technical aspects of Canada’s Government-Online (GOL) initiative. Here she describes her work and its outcomes. Canada is a sparsely populated country of 30 million people, with two official languages – English and French – and 13 […]