Ongoing
| 2018 – | Discussions on cyber resilience with North East Fraud Forum members, SchoolsNorthEast, school business manager networks | |
| 2018- | Participating in Cyber Security exercises with Local Resilience Forum | |
| 2017 – | Dynamo North East Talent Matching pilot | www.dynamonortheast.co.uk |
| 2017- | Regional economic Development Digital Leads meetings co-ordination | |
| 2017- | Microsoft 365 implementation | |
| 2017- | Acting as the local One Public Estate IT group. | |
| 2017 – | Participation in LGA PSN Programme Board | |
| 2017 – | Participation in NCSC Cyber Technical Reference Group | |
| 2016 – | PSN / GCF / Secure email investigations | |
| 2016 – | Participation in SOCITM’s Local CIO Council. | |
| 2015 – | Participation in “Cyber North” regional cyber security discussions | |
| 2015 – | Careers talks in schools for Dynamo North East as part of Esh Group’s “Building my Skills” programme | sources of IT Careers information for young people |
| 2014 – | Supporting Dynamo North East’s workstreams – sourcing knowledge and resources, brokering opportunities for joint working particularly around skills and cyber resilience. | www.dynamonortheast.co.uk |
| 2013 – | Development of Information security Manager’s Group and registration as the NE Government WARP. | |
| 2013 – | Management of North East public sector cyber security forum / WARP. | www.isnortheast.org.uk |
| 2013 – | PSN compliance discussions – national and with other WARPs | |
| 2013 – | PSN compliance especially regarding BPSS, mobile working and mobile devices | |
| 2010 – | Management of SOCITM North East. | www.socitm.net/northeast |
| 2010 – | Public Services Network – Greater understanding of the implications of and opportunities afforded by Government policy. Strengthened relationships with other public sector bodies in the region. | |
| 2010 – | Public Services Network – Investigation of opportunities for de-duplication and joint working through awareness of each others communications links |
Historical
| 2019 | Investigations into contact centre, telephony, CRM and VOIP market developments | |
| 2018 | Investigations into establishing a regional IT internal auditor network | |
| 2018 | Northern area LRF and WARP discussions with MHCLG cyber resilience programme | |
| 2018 | National discussions about the future of WARPs | |
| 2018 | LGA cyber stocktake support | |
| 2018 | ‘Cyberfest’ events | |
| 2018-2019 | Supporting GSI / GCSX migration | |
| 2018 | SOCITM North conference | |
| 2018 | Cyber attack reporting guidance update | |
| 2018 | Cyber security training materials | |
| 2018 | Local Civic Resilience planning aid | |
| 2017-2019 | Regional Digital Skills ESF bid development | |
| 2017 | GDPR | |
| 2017 | Disaster Recovery workshop | Enabling Safe Business |
| 2016 –2018 | GovRoam / GovWifi investigations | |
| 2016 –2018 | Participation in an initiative to bring a 5G test-bed to the region. | |
| 2016 – 2018 | Participation in regional public sector digital skills group. | |
| 2016 – 2018 | Commissioned Executive Leadership training for Women in IT. | |
| 2017 | Established a register of guest and public Wi-Fi facilities available in public buildings. | Wi-Fi access in north east public sector buildings |
| 2017 | Increased collaboration between SOCITM North East, North West and Yorkshire and Humber regions. | |
| 2016 | “Enabling Safe Business – a closer look at Cloud” event | Slides and Further Information |
| 2016 | Commissioned ‘Executive Leadership Programme for Women in IT” from Northumbria University Business School. | |
| 2016 | Presentation on cyber resilience and business continuity in schools and academies to North East Fraud Forum. | |
| 2016 | SOCITM / ADBL digital leadership workshop. | |
| 2015-2016 | Desktop Productivity Software review | |
| 2015-2016 | Review of password guidance | |
| 2015 | ‘Enabling Safe Business ‘15’ event | Further information |
| 2015 | Established ISNorthEast group on CiSP | |
| 2015 | IT in schools event for Dynamo North East | www.dynamonortheast.co.uk |
| 2015 | Retention of online communities of practice to support partnership activities | |
| 2015 | Revision of ISNorthEast Terms of Reference | |
| 2014 – 2018 | Development of IT skills pipeline for Dynamo North East’s skills workstream | www.dynamonortheast.co.uk |
| 2014-2015 | Supported an Apprentice in each of the Partner councils | |
| 2013 | ‘Enabling Safe Business ‘ event | Further information |
| 2013 | Access to Wi-Fi in public buidlings | |
| 2013 | Channel shift and new service models | |
| 2013 | Penetration testing workshop | |
| 2013 | Research into Service Structures | |
| 2013 | Revision of skills sharing protocol | |
| 2012 – 2013 | BYOD workshops held and experience and policies shared. | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Collaboration on BDUK through DigitalDurham. | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Electronic Document Management group established. | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Gateshead’s Policy Enforcer solution made available to others. | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Investigations about future joint working. | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Investigations into making it easier for employees to work in another council’s buildings through guest Wi-Fi. | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Open Data initiative commenced with TWITA. | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Organising to include Partners’ outsourced providers. | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Salary Survey undertaken for SOCITM NE. | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Satellite Broadband investigated. | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Web Managers group established. | |
| 2011 – 2012 | Applications Consolidation workshop. | |
| 2011 – 2012 | Expansion of Partnership and review of Partnership Agreement. | |
| 2011 – 2012 | G & ST joint Multifunction device procurement. | |
| 2011 – 2012 | Introductory agile project management training. | |
| 2011 | Investigations around using SharePoint as a regional collaboration platform. | |
| 2010 – 2012 | Facilitated engagement of the ICT sections in a sub-regional Urban Traffic management Control project seeking to integrate data sources across the councils. | UTMC website |
| 2010 – 2011 | Initial joint multifunction device procurement between Gateshead and South Tyneside. | |
| 2010 | Investigations into providing a single secure collaborative workspace for the Region. | |
| 2010 | Study into the state of the art in the use of agile and mobile working in the Region compared with the national picture. | |
| 2009 | Access to social media: shared understanding of the approaches being taken to social media by each partner. | |
| 2009 | Aided Newcastle University with ‘Where do you think you’re going’ Transport and Digital Economy event. | |
| 2009 | Collation of workprogrammes: identified opportunities for joint action – a number of common priorities have been identified for further investigation. | |
| 2009 | Digital Inclusion: Lessons Learned exercise for Sunderland. Shared understanding of the approaches being taken to digital inclusion by each partner. | |
| 2009 | Established a mechanism to share Efficiencies information amongst Partners | |
| 2009 | ICT Professionalism & SFIA | |
| 2009 | Job Evaluation: shared lessons learned with Partners to inform job evaluation and restructuring discussions. | |
| 2009 | Preparations for a flu pandemic: shared understanding of the provision being made for working from home etc. | |
| 2009 | Regional Council ISP Survey | |
| 2009 | Regional Local Authority ICT Salary Survey | |
| 2009 | Revision of TWICT Partnership Agreement | |
| 2009 | SFIA and ICT Professionalism: shared training and workshop to explore potential joint actions. | |
| 2009 | Smart Transport Ticketing: shared understanding of opportunities to link with the smart ticketing agenda. | |
| 2009 | Support for Hexagon: shared service desktop collaboration for all Heads of IT in the Region. | |
| 2009 | Thin Client / Desktop virtualisation | |
| 2008 | Training Matrix | |
| 2008 | Community ICT barcamp at ‘IT in the Community’ Conference | |
| 2008 | Executive briefings | |
| 2008 | Web impacts on enterprise ICT | |
| 2007-2009 | Digital Challenge Project Management, Dissemination and Project Assurance | Digital Challenge website |
| 2007-2009 | Investigation into sharing data centre capacity | |
| 2007 | Contact centre business continuity project | |
| 2007 | Established sub groups:
· Security · Trainers · ICT Customer Service and Desktop Support · Systems Services · Networks, Telephony and Wireless |
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| 2007 | Hardware maintenance investigation | |
| 2007 | Investigated:
· Web2.0 for business · Members ICT · technologies to support joint working and shared services |
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| 2007 | Skills sharing protocol | |
| 2006-2007 | Ask-it navigation and public information for disabled people | Ask-IT website |
| 2006-2007 | Every Child Matters data matching trial | |
| 2006-2007 | Stakeholder Briefing (Prospectus) | |
| 2006 | Best practice self-assessment | |
| 2006 | SOCITM NE ICT policies survey | |
| 2006 | Telephony efficiencies project | |
| 2005-2006 | Joined up Jobs readiness for eVacancy advertising and vacancy data exchange protocol. Phase II of this project developed into the Regional e-Recruitment Portal | About the project |
| 2005-2006 | NEPO printers procurement | |
| 2005-2006 | SOCITM NE internet broadband procurement | |
| 2004-2008 | Kiosks – Supported the growth of the Tyne and Wear kiosks network to 54 at end March 2008 | Kiosks |
| 2004-2008 | Interactive Digital TV and mobile phone services for councils | about our Digital TV project |
| 2004 | Wireless Internet (WiFi) |
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