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  • UK: Pensions website goes live

    A government minister has launched a new website with advice on pensions provision

    The Pensions at Work site went live on 1 March 2005. It offers advice and examples of good practice in employer pension provision, has been produced following a recommendation in the Employer Task Force's (ETP) report, published in December last year.

  • UK: People must come first in e-government

    The key to local government modernisation is not in the IT, it is in the people. IT is the central element of updating services, but it cannot be considered in isolation: the people running the services and the people using the services must come first.

    So says Paul Croft, head of SOLACE, the representative body for senior managers working in local government and chief executive of Purbeck district council.

  • UK: Performance of Welsh GPs put online, to help public

    New service from NHS Wales

    NHS Wales has launched a new oinline service, giving public access to data published today on GP practices in Wales.

    The database will help monitor levels of ill-health across Wales which in turn will result in better and more appropriate treatment for patients, Welsh Assembly Health Minister Dr Brian Gibbons said yesterday.

  • UK: Peterborough City Council invests 3 million in e-government IT upgrade

    Peterborough City Council plans to invest £3 million over the next three years on improvements to its information technology infrastructure to achieve cost efficiencies and to make its services more accessible to internet users.

    The investment follows a review of the city council's information and communications technology (ICT) services and publication of Sir Peter Gershon's Spending Review, which sets local government a target of achieving £6.45 billion savings through improved efficiency by 2007/08.

  • UK: Petitioning parliament by mouse

    If e-government seems to be mainly about doing tax returns online, then e-democracy is its more exciting cousin, promising to put citizens at centre stage of the political process.

    E-democracy projects are springing up all over the UK. They range from online surgeries for councillors, to e-enabled citizens' panels and local government information via text message.

  • UK: Phil Hope MP explains Government policy on its procurement strategy

    Phil Hope MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State spoke about Developing and implementing an effective corporate procurement strategy in a speech on 22 January 2004. His comments are an important component of effective eGovernment and public sector IT development.

  • UK: Phone still favourite way to talk to government

    Internet and email used most by the under-35s...

    Despite the millions spent on e-government, the landline is still the most common way the public communicates with the government.

    The phone was used to contact the public sector by 77 per cent of the people surveyed by consultancy Accenture, while the post was second most common, at 46 per cent, followed by face-to-face communication at 25 per cent.

  • UK: Pick a school online

    A council in the south west of England is to launch an online applications service for its schools

    Dorset CC announced on 26 August 2005 that the system, at www.dorsetforyou.com/educ/admissions, would go live on 1 September.

    It has been partly funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's eAdmissions National Project, and the council has worked on it with the Department for Education and Skills. The council is part of the South-West Local Education Authority Consortium for the National Project.

  • UK: Pinder blasts privacy 'paranoia'

    The UK's e-envoy is demanding a 'sensible debate' on privacy in order to clear the way for e-government

    Andrew Pinder, the UK e-envoy, has hit out at suppliers and campaign groups for creating a climate of "paranoia" which is holding up e-government.

  • UK: Pinder to push e-services

    The UK e-envoy has pledged his commitment to e-government – for the next 11 months at least.

    Andrew Pinder the UK e-envoy is now spending the majority of his time with Government departments in an attempt to improve their IT initiatives and the way they deliver services online, he told Government Computing News on 13 May 2003.

  • UK: Pioneering Lancashire music service up for national award

    A pioneering service which helps teachers with little musical knowledge and children who want to improve their music skills has been nominated for a national award.

    Lancashire Music Service, which developed the website with software developer and publisher Charanga, has been shorlisted for the prestigious e-Government National Awards 2009.

  • UK: Pito has 'largely failed'

    An official review has recommended a radical restructuring for police IT over the next two years

    The UK's Police IT Organisation (Pito) is "fundamentally flawed" and has "largely failed" to meet the needs of local forces, according to an official review.

    The review, commissioned by the Home Office, recommends scrapping the organisation and transferring its responsibilities to the proposed National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA).

  • UK: PITO hits milestone in joining-up police IT and Criminal Justice System

    The Police Information Technology Organisation (PITO) has taken a significant step forward in enabling the Police Service to deliver its part of a modernised and 'joined-up' Criminal Justice System (CJS).

    Using Lanner Group's professional simulation software technology, WITNESS, PITO aims to apply process simulation to improve Custody and Case preparation processes. Simulation has also been recently applied to assist the performance of UK police forces in a number of key areas including call handling, incident response and scientific support.

  • UK: Plan to put government departments online leaves ‘essential services’ vulner

    POLITICAL pressure to meet Labour’s e-government deadline is placing Britain’s infrastructure at risk from an onslaught of hacker attacks and computer viruses which experts fear could devastate public services.

  • UK: Planning Portal increases query handling capacity without increasing staff

    The Office of The Deputy Prime Minister has implemented a hosted customer service solution at the heart of The Planning Portal, an online facility providing information about planning in the UK and Wales for professionals and the public.

    It's a good piece of e-Government which uses IT to further the strategic goals while delivering real benefits both to users and to the planning professionals.

  • UK: Plans for national address register shelved

    The government's intention to establish a single, comprehensive national address register, announced in May, has been shelved because the parties involved could not agree a way forward, undermining the country's e-government strategy and raising a barrier to delivering efficient public and private sector services.

    Inaccurate addresses disrupt deliveries, emergency response times and the collection of council tax. In the past, problems such as duplicate, missing or erroneous addresses have been seen as modest or isolated and often resolved with local knowledge. But with computer technology, even tiny discrepancies in an address can lead to problems.

  • UK: Plans go online in Birmingham

    City council drives forward with e-government targets

    Birmingham City Council has implemented EMC Documentum's Enterprise Content Management platform to manage documents for planning applications and construction and refurbishment projects.

    The council is using the ECM platform as part of its drive to meet local e-government targets. During the roll-out, which began in December 2004, the council will scan in, store and index paper documents into PDF format. Later it plans to add voice files, photographic files, video recordings and AutoCAD images.

  • UK: Plea for NLIS

    The UK Government is encouraging councils to participate in the National Land Information Service

    Half of the local authorities in England and Wales who are not linked to the National Land Information Service (NLIS), need to move quickly and “change their working practices”, a Government minister has said.

  • UK: Plugging the digital divide

    Mayor of Lewisham Steve Bullock today gave his support to a new technology project aimed at helping residents in Lewisham use the Internet. The project is being launched by Lewisham Council together with Fujitsu Consulting and Microsoft.

    The project team will be taking the AVANTI roadshow, a hi-tech double decker bus kitted out with personal computers and the latest information technology, to Lewisham Shopping Centre, Lewisham Town Centre on Monday July 29 from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm, allowing local residents the opportunity to use and test this exciting new way to deliver services.

  • UK: PM in the dark over government's website

    For a Prime Minister whose government is so keen to make use of the latest technology, Tony Blair knows embarrassingly little about the internet.

    Mr Blair was left looking distinctly sheepish yesterday as he admitted to MPs that not only has he never logged on to the government’s multi-million-pound "eGovernment" website, but he did not even know its address.

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