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  • UK: Small is beautiful

    Some local authorities are proving that size isn't everything where e-government is concerned

    Small councils are finding ways to cope with meagre resources, delivering e-government against the odds, according to a report published on 17 November 2003.

  • UK: Smart card driving licences - consultation now underway

    The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has opened a consultation looking at plans for GB driving licences (not those issued in Northern Ireland) to use smart cards in a next-generation licence. e-Government in your pocket...

    The DVLA is inviting views on the future of the counterpart to the photocard driving licence and on the possible alternative ways of providing the information it contains.

  • UK: Smart card scheme a success for Aberdeen City Council

    Aberdeen City Council plans to expand the range of services available to the community via a smart card scheme.

    Introduced in 2003 the Accord Card, a multi-function smart card, delivers a range of services and concessions to the citizens of Aberdeen. With the scheme available to anyone living or working within Aberdeen, the local community can benefit from cashless catering within schools; discounts and concessions in retail and leisure outlets; library membership; accumulating and holding points for loyalty schemes and an array of other benefits including proof of age and proof of entitlement (in relation to particular concessions).

  • UK: Smart cards, ID cards, nice, nasty, inevitable?

    ID cards come in two quite distinct flavours - the nasty one, where they use the cards to police you, and the nice one, which you use to establish and protect your rights and identity. Simple? Actually, I lie when I say they're distinct flavours; in reality nice isn't absolutely nice, the two bleed most horribly into one another, and what we should really be busying ourselves with is establishing clear lines of distinction then defending them.

  • UK: Smart Cards: Enabling e-Government

    The Office of the e-Envoy has recently published, as a Consultation Document, a draft 'policy' framework entitled "Smart Cards: Enabling e-Government"; to which responses are required by the end of October.

  • UK: Smartcard National Project first with 'safe home'

    Ownership of products developed by the National Smartcard Project is to transfer to Bracknell Forest Borough Council

    Announcing the transfer today (20 July 2005), minister for local e-government, Jim Fitzpatrick, said, "The National Projects have been instrumental in delivering improvements so that local authorities can make further progress towards the December 2005 e-government target.

  • UK: Smartphone application empowers patients to better manage their health

    Former Health Minister, Professor Lord Ara Darzi and a team at Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust developed a smartphone application, the so-called Wellnote app by Dr Darzi that allows users to rate services and create a basic medical record they can share with health professionals.

    The Wellnote app also allows users to find out information about and locate their nearest medical services. The information is sourced from the NHS Choices and is updated daily. The team at Imperial College said that the app is not a commercial venture and will not carry advertising. The free app also allows the user to rate the service anonymously and the scores, along with the official ratings from the Care Quality Commission, are then made available for other users to see and compare.

  • UK: SMEs to get procurement portal to sell to Government

    Businesses will soon have direct access to local and central government business opportunities, thanks to a new national web portal from the Small Business Service (SBS) and Office of Government Commerce (OGC).

    The SBS launched the open competitive tendering process for the provision of the national web portal service that aims to make it much easier for businesses and government buyers to do business.

  • UK: SMS answers London's recycling SOS

    Londoners need to recycle more, and a handy new mobile service could help

    An e-government recycling service has been set up by London Mayor Ken Livingstone in an attempt to encourage more people to recycle.

    The service is thought to be the first of its kind in the UK and will enable residents in London to request details of when their recycling is collected or where their nearest recycling facilities are, by texting RECYCLE and their full postcode to the number 63131.

  • UK: SOA centres of excellence can cut costs

    Despite high initial start-up costs, service-oriented architecture (SOA) centres of excellence can save organisations a significant amount of money in the longer term and are crucial to ensure service quality, consistency and reuse.

    According to analyst Gartner, creating such centres enables enterprises to save an average of 30% in time and expenditure on application integration and data interface development, and cut maintenance outlay by 20%. It can also help them to ensure component reuse levels of about 25%.

  • UK: Socially excluded 'failed' by e-services

    Disadvantaged people are not benefiting from the e-government agenda, says new research

    The UK's e-government efforts are still failing to reach poor and disadvantaged groups, according to a report issued on 20 September 2005.

    The report, by the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) says that "most e-government services fail to reach socially excluded groups".

  • UK: Socitm calls on councils to spend more on 'change'

    The Society of IT Management has called on councils to spend 40 percent of their operational service budgets on transformation

    In a policy paper released on Thursday, Socitm said that operational service budgets are currently split, so that 90 percent goes on operations, with just 10 percent on changing systems. For councils to achieve transformation, this should move closer to a 60:40 split, the organisation argues.

  • UK: Socitm changes council website grading system

    Public Sector IT directors’ organisation Socitm has ranked six top local government websites alongside commercial leaders such as Amazon and Friends Reunited, for user friendliness and delivery them, are Birmingham, Brent, Maidstone, Poole, Surrey and Wrexham.

    The six local authority sites, chosen for their user-orientation and their demonstrable understanding of why visitors might be using.

  • UK: Socitm confident most councils will meet e-government deadline

    When the prime minister Tony Blair first declared that all government services would be online by 2005, it was a different world. In 2000, IT suppliers on the crest of the dotcom wave were making outlandish claims, and businesses were anxious to launch anything starting with an "e".

    The dotcom dream faded long ago, but council IT staff have continued the dogged work to meet the e-government deadline. Daunting though the work may have been, the end is in sight.

  • UK: Socitm criticises government IT plans

    Innovation preferable to cost-cutting, says organisation

    The Society of IT Managers (Socitm) has criticised the government's plans to save billions of pounds a year through the better use of information technology.

    Socitm said in a briefing on the government ICT strategy that the ideas behind the announcement are well meant, but that the government has tackled them in the wrong way.

  • UK: Socitm exhorts Government to value ICT leadership in future e-Government

    The Society of IT Management (Socitm) has launched a new ‘e2’ agenda to promote effective, efficient government underpinned by ICT.

    ‘eGovernment is dead: long live e2Government’ announced Socitm President Chris Guest, speaking at the Government IT Confex in London yesterday. It may look good as a logo, but 'e2Government' and the catchphrase are exceedingly banal - and defuse and devalue the important message that Socitm is trying to get across.

  • UK: SOCITM guide advises how to make public sector websites useful, usable, used

    A new guide to public sector website management sets out what it takes to create and maintain a successful ‘transactional’ public sector website, published by the Society of Information Technology Management (SOCITM).

  • UK: Socitm issues e-project warning

    Councils may see the value of their 22 e-government National Projects disappear under Whitehall's latest strategy, say local IT representatives

    The organisation representing council IT managers is 'concerned' that the progress gained from the National Projects covering local e-government may slip away following Whitehall's decision to end its central support.

  • UK: Socitm plans how to continue support for National e-Government Projects

    Socitm has announced that it is exploring what support it can provide to enable the benefits from the National Projects to continue in the wake of Monday’s announcement by the OPDM that most funding is to cease from the end of December 2005.

    While Socitm welcomes the ODPM’s move to clarify the future of the National Projects, there clearly is some work still to do before the position on each project is clear and local authorities can plan their future reliance on the project outcomes with confidence.

  • UK: Socitm pushes softer skills for e-gov

    Local authorities should focus on softer management skills rather than technical competence if they are to deliver e-government successfully.

    In its report, Delivering Local e-Government, the Society of IT Management (Socitm) identifies two key e-government roles within local authorities: the e-champion and the head of ICT. In theory, the e-champion promotes the idea of e-government within the authority and plans the kinds of services that could be delivered, while the head of ICT is works out how the technical infrastructure can support those plans.

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