MAY
Buyers guide: Cloud computing and the benefits of elasticity
ComputerWeekly.com
Last September Corby Borough Council went live with an online portal application that runs on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure.
The EC2 virtualised server architecture can be accessed over a secure network, allowing organisations to operate applications and other computing resources remotely, ramping up and shrinking their usage as required and paying accordingly. Read More
MAY
Power to the people, through e-petitions
The Guardian - Public
As the new coalition government promises more power to the people, the obvious route is online - so why have e-petitions not had an impact up until now? Read More
MAY
Corby Borough Council offers Cloud-based customer portal
publicTECHNOLOGY.net
Corby Borough Council has become one of the first local governments to start business use of Cloud technology, with a new hosted self-service platform for residents, MyCorby.
"My resource is reducing but workload is increasing," Robert Hinde, customer first manager, told PublicTechnology.net. "A channel switch strategy where we reduced expensive face t face transactions but maintained a very high level of customer service seemed the best solution to our challenges. Read More
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Cloud computing and the benefits of elasticity 24 May 2010 / ComputerWeekly
Last September Corby Borough Council went live with an online portal application that runs on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure. Read more
Power to the people, through e-petitions 20th May 2010 / The Guardian - Public
As the new coalition government promises more power to the people, the obvious route is online - so why have e-petitions not had an impact up until now? Read more
