Chris Haynes, senior adviser on e-government to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), outlined the plans at the Delivering National Strategy for Local e-Government conference, organised by Government Computing, on 17 September 2003.
The tests, which looked at download speed, errors, warnings and 'very basic' metadata, revealed that the best overall website was local e-government and that central government websites tend to have more errors.
The quality of UK e-government services will be scrutinised in a new study by two national organisations, the Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) and Socitm Insight, the research arm of the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm).
Wireless, high-speed broadband net access in libraries is one of the ideas put forward by Stephen Timms, the UK E-commerce minister.