Sixth formers from Michaelston Community College joined residents at Wales & West Housing’s Oldwell Court in Cardiff to show them how to use the internet. The initiative was part of the housing provider’s digital inclusion programme and was the first time that a social housing provider in Wales has joined forces with BT’s Digital Champions…
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WM Housing’s boost with Social Telecoms
WM Housing Group has signed a two-year contract with Social Telecoms to provide mobile phones for the business and help with their digital inclusion strategy. As part of the deal, Social Telecoms has given £5,000 towards WM Housing’s digital inclusion project, to help its tenants get online using kiosk computer terminals in the group’s offices…
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Digital inclusion guide from Carnegie Trust
The Carnegie UK Trust has launched a seven-step guide to digital inclusion aimed at local authorities, housing providers and other public- and voluntary-sector organisations, providing an easy-to-use toolkit for them to help get people online. The report showcases six different approaches used to encourage people online in Liverpool, Glasgow, Leeds, Sunderland, Wiltshire and Fife. These…
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Shared services, shared success
Towards the end of 2010, Severnside Housing and Shropshire Housing Group created an initiative to partner on the delivery of IT services to both organisations, now known as unITe Solutions. The original intention of the initiative was to provide IT resource-sharing for skills transfer, procurement savings and value for money by having greater buying power….
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SecurEnvoy’s tokenless two-factor authentication in housing
SecurEnvoy has developed a tokenless two-factor authentication method so that housing staff working remotely can easily and efficiently log into networks using devices such as smartphones. SecurEnvoy lets housing providers and local authorities use smartphones, laptops or tablets as authentication devices. One method is to send a dynamically-generated password to the employee’s mobile device via…
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Netwrix report on IT changes
A survey by Netwrix has found that almost 60 per cent of IT professionals have made undocumented changes to their IT systems that no one else knows about, and as many as 40 per cent of organisations don’t have any formal IT change management controls. Netwrix’s, ‘2014 State of IT Changes’ survey collected data from…
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