Through the Partnership we jointly considered a wide range of subjects, including:
Objective | Topic | Outcomes |
To grow, share and develop knowledge, experience, skills and professionalism within the ICT community | Cloud computing | Greater shared understanding of the maturity of Government policy and market maturity |
Support for restructuring | Shared understanding of the structures and salaries in place elsewhere to inform restructuring discussions. | |
Secure collaborative workspace for the Region | Identification of available solutions to avoid duplication and expensive third party services. | |
To maximise opportunities for jointly procuring ICT goods and services | ICT procurement strategies | Understanding and securing a role for TWICT in the emerging regional ICT procurement strategy |
Spend analysis | Understanding the regional view of spend with ICT suppliers | |
Multifunction device procurement | Joint procurement between Gateshead and South Tyneside |
To develop new, and exploit existing, ICT infrastructure and applications. | Public Sector Network | Greater understanding of the implications of and opportunities afforded by Government policy. New relationships with other public sector bodies in the region. |
Network mapping | Opportunities for de-duplication and joint working through awareness of each others communications links | |
Urban Traffic management Control | Facilitated engagement of the ICT sections in a sub-regional project seeking to integrate data sources across the councils. | |
Customer Relationship Management | Emergence of a local user group for KANA / Lagan Frontline and informing Sunderland’s CRM procurement. | |
Agile and mobile working for RIEP | Supporting investment of £750,000 in ICT solutions across the region to prove the business case for agile and mobile working. | |
To help shape the use of ICT in the North East for the benefit of the residents, people who work here and those who visit the region. | Working with local universities | Maintaining relationship with local university ‘technology’ initiatives, especially around social inclusion; access to knowledge, resources and information about funding sources. |
Codeworks | Participation in Regional ‘digital’ events; access to knowledge and resources, potential joint activities. | |
SOCITM NE | Participation in Regional multi-sector ICT discussions; access to emerging national policies, knowledge and resources, potential joint activities. | |
Regional ICT infrastructure | Awareness of bids being developed in the region for next generation access. | |
City clusters | Participation in discussions with other local public services ICT sections | |
Bidding pipeline | Awareness of opportunities for external sources of funding. |