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.
Kazakhstan: Cabinet to enhance introduction of E-Government
UK: Eastbourne Borough: Change Your View of the Council's Website
Residents of different ages and experience gave their views on the old website via an online survey last year and volunteered to try out the new website and report on how user-friendly they found it.