Student@Home, a social business employing IT students to provide technology support and training to computer users and small businesses, has recently partnered with Newlon Fusion, the community regeneration partner of Newlon Housing Trust. Student@Home is contracted to deliver up to 80 one-to-one support sessions to residents in their own homes. IT student workers will provide…
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031 - January 2013
Are the barbarians at the gate?
The winds of change are blowing through IT and the housing sector – many people would say that’s a good thing and there are those people who would say that it’s ‘situation normal’ in IT. While change is what makes our lives interesting, this period of change is as much about culture and attitude as…
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Majority of the public sector lacks BYOD strategy
A recent survey by Acronis, a data backup and disaster recovery company, found that 87 per cent of public sector organisations have no formal strategies to deal with the bring your own device (BYOD) trend. 11 per cent of the local authorities surveyed did have a BYOD strategy but none of the central government departments…
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Telecoms and ICT with a conscience from Social Telecoms
Social Telecoms CIC has launched two new services covering telephony and internet access specifically to help housing providers support their digitally-excluded tenants in the run up to the introduction of universal credit later this year. For its first service, Social Telecoms has an ‘open book’ approach to telecoms pricing which means that it charges all…
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Sovereign wins infrastructure contract with Gateway Housing
Gateway Housing Association has awarded a 12-month managed services contract to Sovereign Business Integration Group to refresh its IT infrastructure. The £150,000 contract began in October 2012. Sovereign will conduct an IT infrastructure review, refresh Gateway’s IT infrastructure, and manage improvements to its overall IT environment. The contract is also intended to open the possibility…
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JMC IT secures Arcon Housing’s IT infrastructure
A long-term infrastructure and business continuity project by JMC IT at Arcon Housing in Manchester is now delivering day-to-day benefits to the housing provider’s staff, board members and tenants in areas such as mobility and flexible working, internal communications, and universal credit. JMC IT installed a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to take processing away from…
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