Dr Steve Marsh, the e-Envoy's director of information assurance, has said that it would need a miracle for the government to meet its target to get all its services online by the end of 2005.
Speaking at the Internet goes Public conference, Dr Marsh said: “The plans submitted by government departments for meeting their targets show very little progress is predicted over the next couple of years, with still less (sic) than 80 per cent of services expected to be online as we enter the final quarter of 2005.
"Departments appear to be planning for a miracle, with more than 20 per cent of services going online in those final three months. I am not sure that we believe that this miracle is real."
The government knows that it’s not enough to get its services up on the Web. According to the recent Taylor Nelson Sofres survey, UK government sites are some of the least accessed government sites in the world, and even if all the sites were put up on time, there is no guarantee that they’d be used.
But if people start to use government sites that’d be the second miracle – the government needs the first one first. Even at this time of year, such miracles are in short supply.
Quelle: internet magazine
