environment

£4 million to help local authorities fight climate change

Interesting news item this morning on eGov monitor:  A new £4 million programme to help local authorities tackle climate change was announced by Environment Minister Phil Woolas and Local Government Minister John Healey today. The programme will spread existing best practice on climate change among local authorities, and provide training and mentoring to help them … Keep reading

Future of the cloud

Interesting column from John Naughton in today’s Observer on the potential issues of an increased focus on ‘cloud computing’ ie using online services like Google Docs, etc. Firstly he talks about the recent outages in Asia caused by the Pakistani authorities re-routing YouTube to nowhere – in other words, just how stable is the web? … Keep reading