The Scottish Executive working with Sustrans a leading sustainable transport charity, is taking an holistic approach to improving walking and cycling to schools. Various initiatives are in progress and more are planned and it is claimed that children returning to school this month will start to notice the difference.
Collaboration by public bodies, including councils, to share computer systems is a key feature of the ‘Transformational Government’ strategy with high expectations that it will be able to deliver a large slice of the Gershon efficiency savings. But doubters are now appearing to question this optimism. The latest to do so is Bluefish Communications, an IT professional services company, which highlights that politics and culture are as much part of the change process as technology .
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This programme is now available to view on egovtv.tv, the online television channel for public service modernisation. It describes how the Isle of Man transformed a legacy of fragmented processes, applications and websites into an integrated system. Managing online services and websites is now much simpler and far more effective than the Isle of Man’s previous set up where individual services and sites had been developed discretely reflecting organisation structure rather than customer need.With the development of the single Government wide shared services based on Microsoft technologies, common components such as Authentication and BizTalk adaptors are re-used in each subsequent service, leading to a consistent user experience, and demonstrable efficiencies, essential to a full service with a small population and limited budget.
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