One per cent GDP spent on IT is still too much, says Liam Maxwell

Danny Palmer
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Government deputy CIO wants cloud services to further decrease costs

The one per cent of GDP spent on IT needs to be reduced, according to deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell, during a keynote speech at the Business Cloud Summit in central London today. "One per c...

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