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How a Single Citizen View can help local government deliver a better service

In a climate of far-reaching budget cuts and an increasing burden on their services from a growing and transient population, local government today faces huge pressures both from central government and its own citizens to deliver better services, at lower costs. With the background of this challenging environment, more and more local councils are seeing […]

Infoshare enables multi-agency collaboration to pro-actively tackle vulnerability across Health, Police & Local Government in South Wales

  Combining disparate data and information held by each partner organisations about vulnerable people and groups to develop ‘improved intelligence’ Working as part of the Atos SME Harbour to provide innovative solutions to the public sector  

G-Cloud framework supports SME’s to deliver impact and innovation

Infoshare was recently accepted into the G-Cloud 6 set of solutions and services – offering our citizen matching services (ClearCore) for the first time via G-Cloud. We have already been able to send the link to several interested parties who are evaluating ClearCore and want a straightforward procurement route and easy competitive analysis. Infoshare and […]

CONNECTING SMALL FIRMS WITH PUBLIC SECTOR CONTRACTS

A business event, which will help connect Britain’s small businesses with useful public sector contracts, was announced on the November 9. The Government Exchange, to be held on December 8, will offer the smallest firms the chance to compete with existing Government suppliers for important projects that could be transformative for their long-term sustainability. Delegates […]

Big data in Europe: new markets and new players? A webinar

This webinar is part of the European Data Market study.  Infoshare has presented a case “Single and accurate view of citizens’ data” that was part of the overall study which aims to define, assess and measure the European data economy, supporting the achievement of the Data Value Chain policy of the European Commission. We are […]

Can I see your ID?

Proving an individual really is who they say they are can be critical when providing sensitive services and is increasingly important in the commercial world.  In this article, which first appeared in DataIQ, David Reed finds out about new approaches to identity validation aimed at being more accurate and easy to use.  The article includes […]

Troubled Families

We are not surprised that the number of troubled families has reached a higher level than anticipated as the level of improved interaction between the multiple agencies involved has been very encouraging.  There are a number of excellent case studies from authorities across the country.   We fully support the government’s approach to tackling the issues. […]

Dragon Piers Linney to turn up heat on Whitehall over fairer outsourcing to SMEs

Mr Linney, co-chief executive at the cloud IT consultancy Outsourcery and a dragon on the BBC show for the past two series, has been asked to join the Government’s SME panel on which Infoshare MD Pamela Cook also sits. He has been asked to advise on how small, innovative IT businesses can be helped to […]

Supporting Vulnerable Citizens with Inter Agency Collaboration

Read about how Blaenau Gwent, in partnership with ATOS and Infoshare have created an innovative inter-agency data sharing hub to hold essential information identifying the most vulnerable people based on data held in disparate forms across public service organisations. Each partner organisation will be able to ensure help is given to the most vulnerable citizens; […]

Accurate data saves the London Borough of Hackney money

The relationship between the people of Hackney and their local authority has been transformed by allowing people to interact with council as quickly, conveniently and easily as possible. IPSOS MoRI reports a massive leap in resident satisfaction towards services provided by the London Borough of Hackney (LBH) and a strong positive perception of how taxpayers […]