Promises, promises. Tony Blair, as we all know, is very good at making them. But the jury is still out on whether he can keep them. The UK's new media industry, such as it is these days, was treated to another raft of targets from the prime minister last week at the first government E-Summit. The event, attended by industry bigwigs and politicians from around the world, was designed to show Labour's commitment to the brave new world of technology but ended up making the whole picture look murkier than ever.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has admitted the public sector is in the "technological dark ages".
Computing editor-in-chief Colin Barker looks at one of the biggest-ever gathering of international IT decision makers
It was billed as 'The e-Summit'. The largest conference held this year to discuss the Government's strategy on 'joined-up-Government', the 'e-citizen', ecommerce and other ewords.
A report released this week has slammed the condition of many government Websites, saying over half are riddled with errors.
The UK government has failed to achieve its target of having the worlds best environment for e-commerce by the end of 2002, according to a new report from the office of the e-envoy. Despite the stuttering attempts of the New Labour policy makers the report, 'The Worlds Most Effective Policies for the E-Economy', categorically states that those targets have not been met and it is specifically down to the lack of Governmental and citizen uptake.