Deloitte are the latest to weigh in by delivering their contribution to the expanding volume of reports and articles supporting channel shift. Fascinating as this is it is likely to be received with a slow hand clap from those likeminded to participants in the Public Sector Customer Services Forum’s breakfast meeting. Whilst the DVLA’s Online [...]
Councils have cut senior management costs while protecting the services that the most vulnerable people rely on, a survey of local authority finance directors reveals today. Nine out of 10 councils have already reduced the cost of senior officers, either through cutting numbers or pay, and eight out of 10 have cut middle-management costs. Of [...]
The Secretaries’ ICT Governance Board, released the draft 2011 ICT Strategic Vision on behalf of the Australian Goverment for comment and feedback: Draft 2011 ICT Strategic Vision PDF (752 kb) Draft 2011 ICT Strategic Vision DOC (1042 kb) Draft 2011 ICT Strategic Vision Zipped RTF (2221 kb) The Secretary of the Department of Finance and [...]
Foreword Introduction Part 1 – Reducing waste and project failure, and stimulating economic growth Part 2 – Creating a common ICT infrastructure Part 3 – Using ICT to enable and deliver change Part 4 – Strengthening governance Annex – New governance structure Downloadable versions of the Government ICT Strategy March 2011 Foreword 1.Government information and [...]
Symantec and the Ponemon Institute today revealed that the cost of a data breach has risen for the third consecutive year. The 2010 Annual Study: UK Cost of A Data Breach report found that the average data breach incident cost UK organisations £1.9 million or £71 per record, an increase of 13 percent on 2009, [...]
Key Issue: What technology-intensive approaches will help government become smarter? Smart government is an administration that applies and integrates information, communication and operational technologies to planning, management and operations across multiple domains, process areas and jurisdictions to generate sustainable public value. Planned Research: Gartner research will provide strategic and tactical advice on five key dimensions [...]
In October 2009, following approval from the CIO Council, a team led by the Cabinet Office set out to define how the public sector could utilise the Cloud Computing approach to ICT delivery and explore what benefits and challenges this approach would create. This became known as Phase 2 of the G-Cloud Programme. Phase 2 [...]
A landmark bill that heralds a ground-breaking shift in power to councils and communities overturning decades of central government control was unveiled by Communities and Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles today. The Localism Bill will put an end to the hoarding of power within central government and top-down control of communities, allowing local people the [...]
by Andrea Di Maio | December 13, 2010 Over the last 18 months or so I have been following Vivek Kundra’s adventure as the US Federal CIO. I had the pleasure to meet Vivek when he was the CTO in Washington DC and we shared our views of web 2.0 and cloud in what happened [...]
Plans announced for a ‘digital hub’ in every community to boost economy. The Government has announced today its ambition for a ‘digital hub’ in every community in the country, as part of an £830 million strategy to make sure the UK has the best broadband network in Europe by 2015. Britain’s Superfast Broadband Future’, published [...]
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