Dan Jellinek is editor of E-Government Bulletin,
Dan Jellinek is editor of E-Government Bulletin, the leading UK email newsletter on all aspects of e-government and teledemocracy. To subscribe to this free service email egovbulletin-subscribe@headstar.comDan is a journalist with extensive experience of writing on the social effects of technology, including work for the Guardian and BBC Online. He is co-founder of Headstar, a new media company specialising in electronic publishing; online policy debates; and research into all aspects of the information society including equal access to technology for all.
e-government
The government's targets for all its services to be available online by the year 2005 will be met comfortably, if one is to believe its own latest assessments.
Better Connected - the Online Review
The disastrous image of a council that an out-of-date web site can present to the world has been among early topics of discussion in the new online forum opened by the local government technology association SOCITM, 'Better Connected Live'.
Do people want online public services?
A recent survey found that there were now only four local authorities in the UK which have still to construct a web site. But do people actually care?
UK Councils rush online?
The Society of IT Management has been tracking council web sites for several years and all but four out of 467 local authorities now have web sites. Compare this, for example, with figures cited for the Netherlands recently which found that, as at March 2001, just 290 of the 504 Dutch municipalities had sites.
Emergency planning
Emergency planning is a low-profile public service, conjuring images of secretive maps in war-rooms. But since September 11 the capability of public bodies to plan efficiently for major emergencies has become the focus of intense policy scrutiny.
Local e-government
Until recently the 'e-government' agenda was driven firmly by central government, most often by some agency of the Cabinet Office.
All channels considered for digital TV services
The signs are that the government is set to soften its stance on the use of commercial 'walled gardens' for the delivery of public services over digital television.
Transform
Wiring up a process does not necessarily improve that process if it was not a good process in the first place. There is even the risks of technology leading to poorer services and increased costs.
Government Security: The illicit Internet?
Within the general global media frenzy triggered by the terrorist atrocities in the US, a number of Internet-related stories are beginning to gain prominence. After the early positives, more negative stories have started to appear, with in some quarters anger directed at the internet as a possible facilitator of the cataclysmic events in Manhattan.
UK out of step with European Freedom March
The French tax authority does it; the German national railways do it; even the Queen does it. Or to be more accurate, they don't do it - pay for their web software.
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