UK: Data sharing gains flexibility
The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (Vosa) has introduced content management software to improve data sharing internally and with other public bodies.
The Department for Transport division found the amount of policy and administrative documentation was creating information overload for staff.
UK: Prison Service primed to share admin functions
The Prison Service will be the first national government agency to establish organisation-wide shared administrative functions when the Phoenix system goes live this spring.
Under the £180m scheme to centralise finance and procurement, prisons will move to the system at a rate of eight institutions per week, HM Prisons head of shared services Steve Hodgson told a conference in London.
UK: Whitehall skills under fire
It will take another 30 years before Whitehall can successfully deliver major IT projects unless fundamental changes are made, says a leading adviser to the National Audit Office (NAO) report on public sector efficiency.
Endemic problems in the civil service mean IT delivery failures will not be solved and the eGovernment Unit’s Transformational Government (TG) strategy is ‘hype’, according to Colin Talbot, Professor of Public Policy at Manchester Business School.
Meldegesetzänderung: Berliner bekommen E-Ummeldung
Berliner können sich in Zukunft auch elektronisch ummelden. Der Senat der Hauptstadt hat nun die Novellierung des Meldegesetzes beschlossen. Damit sollen insbesondere die erforderlichen Rahmenbedingungen für die Nutzung moderner Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien geschaffen und unnötige Meldepflichten abgeschafft werden, heißt es aus dem Senat.
UK: Positive linking
English local authorities are overstating their progress in developing websites, according to the eighth annual survey by the Society of IT Management (Socitm), published today.