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PSBA in the News - 26th July 2010

Below are details of events or articles where PSBA has been mentioned during the last few months:

PSBA represented by Deputy First Minister, Ieuan Wyn Jones
Deputy First Minister, Ieuan Wyn Jones participates at a Global Cisco announcement and globally reinforces PSBA and Wales’s determination to stay at the forefront of broadband adoption – to listen to this announcement click here.

Jane Hutt AM, Minister for Business and Budget addresses the Society of Local Chief Executives (SOLACE) Wales Conference 2010
Jane Hutt AM, Minister for Business and Budget addressed attendees of the Society of Local Chief Executives (SOLACE) Wales Conference 2010 in April and discussed the Efficiency and Innovation Board (a board made up of representatives from across public services, the trade unions and third sector), how it focuses on seven key areas of the public services including Public Services Information Communication Technology of which PSBA was mentioned as not only a technical solution that delivers greater efficiency but provides a wider strategic benefits for public services as a whole and can start to provide building blocks for a host of other innovations. PSBA one of the 4 "adopt or justify" projects mentioned during the speech.

In the News:

Pioneering Welsh Approach to ‘Borderless’ Broadband
The worldwide leader in networking Cisco has applauded Wales’ pioneering role in the adoption of seamless information and communications systems across its entire public sector.

Through a groundbreaking project known as ‘Public Sector Broadband Aggregation’, Wales is set to become the first country in the world to achieve the goal of a completely ‘borderless’ network that embraces all public service agencies. Click here for more details

Wales, U.K., to Pioneer ‘Borderless’ Broadband
Wales, U.K., will become the first country in the world to connect all its public agencies through a “borderless” broadband network. Through a groundbreaking project known as Public Sector Broadband Aggregation (PSBA), using Cisco Systems technology, the Welsh Assembly Government is creating a national network covering all hospitals, doctors’ offices, local governments, universities and colleges.

Wales plans to double network take-up
Michael Eaton, Director of PSBA, Welsh Assembly Government discusses how he aims to double the number of organisations using the service over the next year, PSBA should be able to increase the number of connected sites from 2,000 to 4,000, and that there is potential to add another 6,000 including home workers. Click here for more details

The Big One for Wales
Michael Eaton, director of the Welsh public sector network, says flexible procurement and a collaborative approach are now paying big dividends, writes Mark Say (Government Computing author) Michael Eaton is a great believer in the dictum that the right procurement model can do a lot to ensure the success of a major programme. Over recent months he has seen the take-up of the Welsh Assembly Government‘s Public Sector Broadband Aggregation (PSBA) network, of which he is the director, surge to provide connections to 2,000 sites. He’s confident that the figure will be doubled over the next year, and attributes much of the success to a procurement that provided the flexibility to respond to changes in technology (article in Government Computing May 2010 edition) for further details please contact Annemarie.phillips@uk.logicalis.com

Welsh informatics boosted by 'collaborative working'
The chief executive of Informing Healthcare has told HC2010 that Wales has an advantage through its culture of public service.

"There's a tradition of collective and collaborative working," said Gwyn Thomas, who is also chief information officer for the Welsh Assembly Government. "The culture is one of looking after each other. If you can tap into that, you can unlock all sorts of other things which are more prosaic on delivering IT systems."

Wales is now combining its IT for health and social care, and extending the national infrastructure concept across the Welsh public sector, initially through its public sector broadband aggregation project. "We're now looking at data storage, common applications," Thomas added. In the next six months, he expects that Wales' local governments will join the project too. Click here for more details.

Welsh Assembly Government Public Service Wales March 2010 Bulletin
Public Service ICT: further expand and exploit the world-leading PSBA network to improve service delivery, reduce costs and enable greater collaboration. Click here to download pdf.

Welsh Assembly Government Public Service Wales May 2010 Bulletin
Minister invests in new ways of working to deliver better public services: accelerating the benefits of Public Sector Broadband Aggregation initiative by assisting up to 1,000 new public sector connections to the network and providing access to broadband, voice, video and data services at a reduced cost – typically a reduction of around 20% in revenue costs. Click here to download pdf.