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UK: Three steps to e-services
A leading community advice organisation is urging the UK Government to sharpen up its approach to online services
Intermediaries providing public sector e-services need a common method of authentication, a facility for making and tracking claims and better electronic forms if they are to work effectively, says the Citizens Advice Bureau.
UK: Three steps to success
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and industry association Intellect have launched a package of measures aimed at raising the success rate of public sector IT projects
There are three main elements of the package, it was announced on 8 December 2003.
UK: Three trusts sign up for self service kiosks
Mid-Essex Hospital Service NHS Trust, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have signed deals with Intouch with Health for trust wide implementations of its self service kiosks.
The kiosks notify staff of patient arrivals and direct patients to appropriate waiting areas and consultation rooms. By using them, trusts hope to reduce the administration and associated costs of traditional hospital check-ins.
Intouch with Health claims it takes as little as little as six seconds for patients to check-in using its kiosks, thanks to a combination of barcode scanners and patient appointment letters.
UK: Time to Switch Off the Digital Divide
IS YOUR connection sluggish, unreliable and far from predictable? Are you happy with the speed you can download large emails at?
Broadband Internet is revolutionising the way people view and use the Internet.
UK: Time to tune in to council meeting television show

FED-up with EastEnders or Coronation Street? If so you could soon become hooked on regular dramas of a different kind - district council meetings broadcast live into your home via the internet.
A £17,000 webcasting scheme to cover meetings in the chamber at the Civic Offices, Epping, and at other venues across the district is set to be trialled this month and go live' in September.
UK: Timms defends DWP IT

The minister responsible for IT at the Department for Work and Pensions has insisted the programme to transform the welfare system with new technology is on course
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is developing a range of e-services for jobseekers and benefits claimants underpinned by a new IT strategy, the minister responsible said on 12 January 2006.
UK: Tony Blair will Universaldatenbank mit allen Bürgerdaten

Datenbank soll Behördeneffizienz steigern
Die britische Regierung plant eine riesige Datenbank mit den persönlichen Daten aller Bürger, berichtet die BBC. Mit Hilfe des unbegrenzten Datenzugriffs soll die Effizienz der Behörden gesteigert werden.
Geht es nach Tony Blair, werden in Zukunft alle personenbezogenen Daten, die bei unterschiedlichen Behörden gespeichert sind, zwischen den Behörden ausgetauscht. Noch bestehende rechtliche Hindernisse sollen dazu weitestgehend abgebaut werden. Die gesammelten Daten könnten in eine riesige Universaldatenbank einfließen.
UK: Toolkit for smart cards released by e-Government National Project
The National Smartcard has launched a smart toolkit offering local authorities all the help they need to meet Priority Outcome G12 by setting up a multi-application smart card scheme.
Produced by Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, the toolkit provides a step-by-step guide to setting up a smart card scheme to enable councils to improve access to services for citizens.
UK: Toon army recruited in net drive
Tickets to football matches and shirts signed by players are being used as incentives to get people into public internet centres in Newcastle.
UK: Top E-uropean award for Liverpool City Council
Liverpool City Council's transformation of services is grabbing European attention.
In a field of top private and public sector organisations, Liverpool scooped a major local government award at the annual European Forum for Quality Management, in Berlin.
UK: Top fraud cops look at phone box net project

Multi-million pound venture involved all local councils
The serious Fraud Office is probing ‘anomalies’ in the accounts of a multi-million Government-funded project to upgrade public telephone boxes in Luton and South Bedfordshire to provide access to the Internet.
This newspaper has learned that the independent fraud body is investigating the project after details were reported to it by Bedfordshire Police.
UK: Top tips for Freedom of Information
The information commissioner has set out 10 ways in which public sector organisations can improve their handling of freedom of information requests
UK information commissioner Richard Thomas has issued 10 "top tips" to help government organisations meet their obligations under the Freedom of Information Act.
UK: Torfaen portal offers citizens and businesses the opprtunity to get online
One South Wales council is offering IT courses and information as part of a regeneration scheme
County Borough Council in South Wales is looking to its new portal to provide citizens with skills to develop business and community projects.
The portal project, named Webster, officially provides residents with the expected range of council services.
UK: Tories aim to overhaul Whitehall IT
Although the Conservative manifesto deliberately focuses on the 'big issues' the party does have plans for a new government IT programme, says a senior MP
The Conservative Party would overhaul government IT programmes should it get into office, a senior MP said on 12 April 2005.
Michael Fabricant made the claim following his party's manifesto launch. He said that while the slimline official manifesto is designed to focus on the "big issues" of most concern to voters, the Conservatives have detailed plans for changing the way Whitehall runs IT projects.
UK: Tories plan to lift UK digital position
The Conservative Technology Forum (CTF) has launched an action plan to lift the UK "significantly upwards from its middle ranking position among developed countries in exploiting digital technology" should the party win this year’s expected general election.
The World Economic Forum currently ranks the UK number 12 in the world when it comes to citizens, companies and government making effective use of ICT - last year the UK was number 15. According to analyst Ovum, the UK has the most widespread availability of broadband of all the G7 nations.
UK: Towards a Citizen-Centric Authority
The Consumer as a Citizen, is the UK Government Doing Enough?
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Towards a Citizen-Centric Authority: Beyond CRM, e-Government and the Modernising Agenda in the Public Sector to their offering.
UK: Town halls to snoop on homeowners for ID card evasion

Conservatives have expressed concern after it emerged that council bureaucrats are to be armed with sweeping new powers to snoop on private homes for ID card evasion.
Shadow Constitutional Affairs Secretary Oliver Heald accused Labour ministers of adopting "Big Brother" methods to enforce planned new ID card rules, which could include imposing fines of up to £2,500.
UK: Trans-Atlantic study trip for council
A COUNCIL has been invited to send two representatives on a five-day study tour to see how the Americans and Canadians have used electronic technology in providing services to the community.
The estimated cost to Babergh of the trip will be £1,000 per person, of which £500 is the flight cost and £500 is the accommodation cost based on £100 per night.
UK: Transformation spending to rise
Public sector spending on business transformation service will continue to rise over the next three years, according to new research
A report from Kable forecasts that expenditure in the sector will rise from £1.8bn in 2005-06 to £2.3bn in 2007-08, with growth in all areas of public service.
UK: Transformation under fire

Contributions to the Socitm conference posted warnings about the government's transformation agenda
Speaking at Society for IT Management's conference in Harrogate, William Heath, chairman of Kable, said on 3 October 2006 there was a streak of "hierarchical or authoritarian intent" in the agenda.