Archives for June 29th, 2009

REPORT SEES BIG SAVINGS IN GIVING CITIZENS CONTROL OVER PERSONAL DATA

Headlines, PublicNet: 29 June, 2009

A new report says effective use of Information Technology has the potential to allow people to exercise real choice and control over schools, GPs, hospitals and other public services. The report from the Centre for Policy Studies says the Government will spend about 16.5m billion pounds on IT in this financial year but most of that money is wasted as only 30 per cent of projects succeed.

In “It’s ours: why we, not government, must own our data”, Liam Maxwell says improving Government use of IT is not just a question of effective project management but also of changing the assumptions behind it. He says the choice is between continuing the ‘Transformational Government’ agenda, which relies on the state holding personal data, or giving control over personal data to individual citizens.

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AUDIT COMMISSION IN TALKS OVER PROPOSED JOB CUTS

Headlines, PublicNet: 29 June, 2009

The Audit Commission is talking to unions about planned job cuts. It is proposing to cut its field force numbers by 100 with the planned redundancies taking place during this financial year.

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DIGITAL BRITAIN AND COUNCILS

Abstracts, PublicNet: 29 June, 2009

This programme is now available to view on egovtv.tv, the online television channel for public service modernisation. In this interview, Antony Walker, Chief Executive of the Broadband Stakeholder Group – the government’s leading advisory group on broadband – discusses the opportunities and challenges following the recommendation in the Digital Britain report by Lord Carter for every home to have access to broadband by 2012.

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