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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