During March, Itica ran a survey on ‘The future of ICT in social housing’, donating £10 for each fully completed submission plus a further donation to bring the total to £2,000 for The Big Issue Foundation. Stephen Robertson, CEO, The Big Issue Foundation, said, “We would like to thank Itica for a very generous donation…
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General News
We’re in this together…
What a very strange world we are living in right now. As I type this, I am sitting opposite my son who is doing his school work online, I have a daughter upstairs who is now not sitting her GCSEs and is missing her friends and I have a wife who is a frontline medical…
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Using IT to tackle our biggest challenge
We began testing our strategies for full remote working several weeks before the government announced lockdown. With our systems in place, our entire team was encouraged to work remotely a week before the lockdown order. Business as usual monitoring was carried out over the first week to ensure everything we do could be done and…
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Keeping 100 per cent of the workforce operational
Source: Castleton Technology Housing organisations are faced with some difficult decisions regarding their staffing. Never has there been more pressure to provide vital support and services to tenants, but in other areas where staff can’t be redeployed, staff are being faced with furlough and even redundancies. Castleton Technology has put its own measures in place…
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The new norm, for now…
In the 18 months I’ve been with Catalyst, the organisation and technology have both undergone a huge amount of change. From having 240 hours of downtime on the telephony system in 12 months, to failing SANs four years behind patching cycles and non-redundant networking, we had to devise and deliver a major foundational change programme…
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Aiming for business as usual…
As we’ve reported throughout this issue of Housing Technology, our impression is that most housing providers, IT suppliers and their staff are coping admirably well with the impact of coronavirus on their operations. Housing providers’ widespread adoption over the past few years of web-based business applications and cloud/hosted IT services has meant that they have…
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