Local authorities have met government online service targets, according to the Office for the Deputy Prime Minister(ODPM).
By the 31 December deadline, councils in England had achieved 97% e-enablement, with legal or operational barriers accounting for the outstanding 3%, the ODPM said. The figures have been checked by the Audit Commission.
“Different authorities have experienced different difficulties,” said the spokesperson. “We will go in and work with authorities to assess the difficulties they’re having and share best practice.”
One target councils may find it hard to meet is this year’s 31 March deadline for complying with e-GMS, the e-government metadata standard, which aims to create a standard taxonomy of terms, so that citizens can find information easily, regardless of where it is located on a government website (Click here for more stories on e-government).
New research from information management technology supplier APR Smartlogik analysed 441 council websites and found that only 20% had fully implemented e-GMS.
The South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive is using the Smartlogik software to implement e-GMS. Tim Rivett, head of IT at the organisation, said: “Any organisation that provides services for local authorities ought to worry about meta-tagging so that local authorities can deep-link to them.”
Autor: Kim Thomas
Quelle: Information World Review, 16.02.2006
