The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has funded 94 local e-government partnerships across England with a total of £74m over the last two and a half years. The catalogue was commissioned via NWeGG and the ROADS Regional Workstream (based at Knowsley) in early December 2004.
The Catalogue, which can be downloaded from the North West e-Government Group website, contains details of all projects and products that the Partnerships have developed and maps them to a number of local authority e-Government targets. Initially the catalogue will be available as an Excel spreadsheet. However, it is intended that early in 2005/06 it will be merged into the recently announced National Projects Products catalogue.
The catalogue currently houses 428 products from 300 projects carried out by 94 Partnerships. It is searchable by a number of key criteria, for example, by Priority Outcome, by relevant National Project and by evidence of efficiency savings.
The development of the Catalogue has been driven by NWeGG as part of the ROADS Regional Partnership workstream led by Knowsley, on behalf of ODPM. It has been designed and populated by specialist public sector consultancy RSe Consulting.
Phil Swan, Programme Manager at NWeGG said: "The Partnerships Catalogue highlights the huge effort that has gone into and continues to go into e-government partnership working, and the scale of their success. As well as the large number of projects and products that have been generated, this work has helped bring together authorities and enable sharing of what works and what doesn’t, skills development and a foundation for joint service delivery in many areas.
This Catalogue allows every Local Authority and Partnership in the country to find out what has been done by the Partnerships and use the hard work already put in elsewhere to inform just about any type of project at any stage. Partnership working has not received such a high profile as other e-Government programmes, but from our work with local authorities and their partners in the North West, we know just how much value they have delivered."
Quelle: Publictechnology, 01.04.2005
