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eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

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  • UK’s Largest Smart City Energy Regeneration Scheme

    Plans for Peterborough, one of the UK’s fastest growing cities, to adopt a smart energy system have reached their halfway point.

    The Mayor of Peterborough, Councillor Stephen Lane, and Peterborough City Council leader, Councillor Wayne Fitzgerald, were among the local leaders who celebrated the milestone at an event on 21 October to welcome an electric double-decker bus into the city on its national clean energy tour of the UK in the run-up to COP26.

  • Why has UK Government digital transformation just created a giant bureaucracy?

    Why have Whitehall’s digital transformation plans created a huge white elephant? The end result? Thousands of government jobs, but precious little else.

    One of the National Data Strategy’s missions is to improve the UK Government’s use of data and so drive efficiency and upgrade public services. A positive message. But to do that, Whitehall needs to retain public trust. So noted Lord Clement-Jones, Chair of a Westminster eForum this week on digital transformation in government.

  • 'Cutting edge' UK councils to get £14m

    The Government is to chuck £14 million over the next three years at local authorities to support "cutting edge" e-schemes - even though a third of councils admit they won't hit existing e-Gov target to get their services online by 2005.

  • 'Missing UK website is costing Wales millions'

    The absence of a UK presence on a new EU website designed to make cross-border business easier within Europe, means Wales could be losing out on much need inward investment.

    That is the claim of Labour Welsh Assembly Member, Lesley Griffiths.

    She says she is angered at the fact that the entire UK is "missing" from the new Your Europe - Business portal, which is set-up to give EU entrepreneurs easy access to information on doing business in other EU member states.

  • "Defence Equipment & Support" is new one-stop-shop to support UK Forces

    The DPA and DLO have merged to form a new organisation, called Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S), to equip and support our armed forces for operations now and in the future.

    This is the latest in a series of reforms driven by the Defence Acquisition Change Programme (DACP) and supporting the Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) which aim to improve the way UK Forces are equipped, sustained and supported.

  • $20bn bill for UK government IT spend

    At least twice as much as in Germany and elsewhere - good thing or bad thing?

    The UK government will spend almost $20bn on technology this year but must focus on the social impact as well as financial benefits of that investment, according to analyst house Gartner.

  • £200,000 grant will develop net services

    Residents could soon be able to pay their council tax over the internet after a Staffordshire authority won a £200,000 Government grant.

    The money was awarded to Lichfield District Council as part of an on-going £850,000 initiative to make its services more internet friendly.

  • £28m council cuts threat

    A new computer system at City Hall will cost taxpayers £28.2 million in service cuts and result in 100 job losses, the Evening News today reveals.

  • £5m Campaign To Encourage Use of Online Services in UK

    The Government has launched a drive to encourage more people to use online council services. The take-up campaign aims to push people towards using their local council website as the first port of call when doing everyday chores, such as finding information on rubbish collection, or paying bills. It will also herald the start of a wider communication program that will highlight the breadth of services that can be dealt with online from reporting abandoned cars to finding school term dates.

    With over two-thirds of UK homes are connected to the internet, and over 10 million broadband connections, local government must capitalize on the potential cost savings that an increase in takeup of online services can bring. The £5m take-up campaign represents the culmination of a 5-year program of investment in local e-government.

  • 2011 Round-up: Broadband rollout in the UK

    It has been a turbulent year for broadband in the UK. 2011 has seen government and network operators make noticeable progress in establishing effective roadmaps for the future, while suffering blows that could hinder rollout of Britain's digital infrastructure long term.

    The UK's rollout of next generation broadband access set out to create, as Chancellor George Osborne put it in his Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) last October, the best superfast network in the whole of Europe by 2015.

  • 24% of the UK willing to fund smart city solutions with tax

    According to a recent study conducted by ATG Access, 24% of people in the UK would be happy to fund smart city solutions with their tax contributions.

    From the 1,000 people questioned, 57% would be happy for tax to be use towards smart traffic lights.

  • 5 years ago... Government pushes UK as ecommerce leader

    Oh dear, how embarrassing...

    UK minister Barbara Roche launched the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) ecommerce plan yesterday as part of National Technology Week. In it, she projects that 90 per cent of government procurement will be carried out electronically by 2000 to 2001, and 25 per cent of government services will be available online by 2001.

  • A 'Giant Leap Forward' For U.K. On-line Government

    Office of the e-Envoy selects Entrust to secure online government collaboration in the U.K.

    Today marks a significant milestone in the U.K. Government's drive to provide secure government services. The Office of the e- Envoy announced it has selected Entrust Inc. (NASDAQ: ENTU), a world leader in securing digital identities and information, to provide the U.K. Government's National Root certificate authority, enabling the public sector to connect securely.

  • A hydrogen-fuelled city – a practical reality for the UK or a pipe dream?

    Hydrogen can act as a key player in decarbonising cities.

    Occupying only two per cent of the world’s landmass but consuming over two-thirds of the world’s energy and accounting for more than 70 per cent of global CO2 emissions, our cities leave an enormous footprint. Now, more than ever before, we need smart energy solutions that work for these cosmopolitan environments which are sustainable for the future - especially when we consider energy demand is only set to grow in the build up to 2050 net zero goals.

  • Accenture und CSC sahnen in England ab

    Die britische Regierung hat im Rahmen ihres Sonderprogramms für die technische Runderneuerung des National Health Service (NHS) zwei weitere lukrative Verträge im Wert von zusammen umgerechnet 2,7 Milliarden Euro an die Dienstleister Accenture und Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) vergeben. Accenture erhielt nach dem Regionalvertrag für Nordostengland auch den für Ostengland mit einem Volumen von 934 Millionen Pfund und stach dabei Cerna, CGEY, EDS und LogicaCMG aus. CSC verdrahtet für das NHS den Nordwesten und die West Midlands. Bei dieser 973 Millionen Pfund werten Ausschreibung schauten Fujitsu, BT und IBM in die Röhre.

  • AE: UK learning from UAE e-government model: UK Minister

    Zahawi hailed the innovation culture the UAE government is keen on establishing.

    The United Kingdom is seeking to grow the number of UK universities in the UAE as well as to learn from the UAE e-government programme model, according to Nadhim Zahawi, Member of Parliament and Minister Responsible for Special Education Needs in UK.

  • All schools to have faster access to Internet by 2006

    All 22,000 primary and secondary schools in England will have high-speed internet access by 2006, as part of a £1bn scheme for the public sector, Tony Blair pledged yesterday.

  • Allerdale Council first in UK to launch weblog

    Allerdale Council has become the first local authority in the UK to launch an official weblog.

    The so-called blogs – personal online diaries – offer residents a chance to access information, put forward views, ask questions and get responses via the internet.

    The Allerdale weblog – www.allerdale.gov.uk/blogger – can also be accessed by disabled users.

  • Analysis: A detailed look at the UK Online 2003 annual report

    The UK Online 2003 annual report highlights some major future challenges and goals for the Government, and identifies some of the cornerstones to their achievement. Despite the report's statement that 66% of government services are now online, many of these eEnabled services are little more than online replicants of traditional services and add little extra value.

    The challenge is not so much to put eGovernment services online, but to instil in eGovernment services a compelling value-add which makes the citizen use them rather than traditional transactions with Government.

  • AU: E-participation rising, but UK now beats Australia at e-government

    Australia has maintained its place as the second-best country for e-government in the biennial United Nations e-government survey.

    It took out second place to the United Kingdom — which shot up the ranks thanks to early adoption and a concerted focus on digital by the British government — on both this year’s e-government development index and e-participation index.

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