UK: Minister sees technology promoting choice
The e-government minister has pledged to use information technology to extend choice throughout the public services.Speaking during a Westminster Hall debate, Cabinet Office minister Jim Murphy said he was "deadly serious" about encouraging the use of IT.
He told MPs there were four challenges for government: the scale of Whitehall's "IT estate"; improving efficiency in the government's £14bn IT budget; the delivery of easy-to-use services; and the relevancy of services to users.
UK: The balancing act of IT purchasing
The government must get the balance right for its forthcoming IT strategyThe government is planning once more to make changes to its IT buying policies to help avoid expensive project failures.
As always, the devil will be in the detail, which will be revealed when head of egovernment Ian Watmore announces his new IT strategy later this month.
UK: Delivering High Performance in the Public Sector
European Technology Forum briefing with senior public sector ICT professionalsAgainst a backdrop of the Gershon Efficiency Review, Citizen take-up of e-services, and Joined-up Government, measuring output, providing targets and reporting in the public sector is a hot topic which has considerable cultural implications throughout the sector.
Nigeria: Osun State embraces e-government
The Osun State government on Tuesday in Osogbo unveiled an expansive Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure that is to usher the state into electronic governance (e-Government).The entire project consists of a bureau of computer service and IT, complete with Local Area Network (LAN) for e-Governance, an Internet access backbone with VSAT, Fibre optic inter-connectivity to all agencies of government, wireless radio inter-connectivity to remote agencies of government, fibre optic cable inter-connectivity to Internet-access backbone to official quarters as well as live streaming capacity website for radio and TV live broadcast.
Software ''Meso'' legt Berliner Bürgerämter lahm
Beteiligt sind Telekom-Tochter T-Systems und HSHDie Einführung der neuen Software "Meso" in den Bürgerämtern in der Bundeshauptstadt Berlin führt zur Verdoppelung der Bearbeitungszeiten und zu langen Schlangen. Bei der Schnittstelle zur Polizei kommt es zu monatelangen Verzögerungen, erklärte Thomas Birk, Sprecher für Verwaltungsreform bei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, heute in Berlin. Meso (Meldung Einwohner Software) wurde am 4. Oktober in den 46 Bürgerämtern der Stadt eingeführt und löste ein System von 1976 ab. Entwickelt wurde Meso laut Medienberichten von der Telekom-Tochter T-Systems und der Software-Firma HSH.