David Cooke has been appointed as the new Director of the Central Information Technology Unit (CITU). The work of the Unit is to influence and co-ordinate strategy in relation to Information Sytems to ensure that the latest technology is harnessed to improve co-ordination across government.There had been expectations that the post would have been opened up to candidates from the private sector. The argument against this is that the Unit already has a number of people on secondment from IT companies and that a principle task of the Director is to understand issues on the inside of government.

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