Finalists in the UK e-Government National Awards 2005 are announced today, highlighting the best services improving citizens and business transaction with councils & central government departments.
November 16, 2005 (Press Release) --
Finalists include a great diversity and spread of achievement in e-Government right across the UK - Councils, central government departments, non-departmental public bodies and voluntary organisations are all represented in this 'best of the best' .
Cabinet Office Minister Jim Murphy MP, Ian Watmore, Government CIO and Head of the Cabinet Office e-Government Unit will be involved in the awards, which will be presented on 25th January 2006 at the Savoy Hotel in London.
Murphy says:
"e-Government is one of the most important ways the Government can deliver public services reform. We are committed to developing Government IT systems and services that make real and tangible improvements to the lives of British people and businesses. The e-Government National Awards are our way to recognise the best attempts to deliver on this commitment."
Jim Fitzpatrick Local e. government Minister, at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, says
"I'm delighted to see so many councils entered the e-Government National Awards. Local e-government has made enormous progress over the last five years, and this is shown by the number and high quality of the bids. I congratulate all the shortlisted finalists and look forward to the winners being announced in January 2006."
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is supporting the local government Awards, finalists highlighting best practice in:
1) Efficiency - using electronic service delivery to improve the citizen experience of liaising with local government.
2) Take-up - delivering a high take up of an e-enabled service through effective service delivery and marketing.
3) Leadership - electronic joined up public services providing strong local solutions for local circumstances.
The announcement of the finalists follows last week's publication of the Government's IT strategy, 'Transformational Government' - which promises a wide-ranging plan to transform and improve UK public services via IT and e-Government.
The government IT strategy has three key points:
1) Services enabled by IT must be designed around the citizen or business, not the provider, and provided through modern, co-ordinated delivery channels. This will improve the customer experience, achieve better policy outcomes, reduce paperwork burdens and improve efficiency by reducing duplication and routine processing, leveraging delivery capacity and streamlining processes.
2) Government must move to a shared services culture - in the front-office, in the back-office, in information and in infrastructure - and release efficiencies by standardisation, simplification and sharing.
3) There must be broadening and deepening of government's professionalism in terms of the planning, delivery, management, skills and governance of IT enabled change. This will result in more successful outcomes; fewer costly delivery failures; and increased confidence by citizens and politicians in the delivery of change by the public services.
Cabinet Office Minister Jim Murphy MP, Ian Watmore, Government CIO and Head of the Cabinet Office e-Government Unit will be involved in the awards, which will be presented on 25th January 2006 at the Savoy Hotel in London.
Murphy says:
"e-Government is one of the most important ways the Government can deliver public services reform. We are committed to developing Government IT systems and services that make real and tangible improvements to the lives of British people and businesses. The e-Government National Awards are our way to recognise the best attempts to deliver on this commitment."
Jim Fitzpatrick Local e. government Minister, at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, says
"I'm delighted to see so many councils entered the e-Government National Awards. Local e-government has made enormous progress over the last five years, and this is shown by the number and high quality of the bids. I congratulate all the shortlisted finalists and look forward to the winners being announced in January 2006."
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is supporting the local government Awards, finalists highlighting best practice in:
1) Efficiency - using electronic service delivery to improve the citizen experience of liaising with local government.
2) Take-up - delivering a high take up of an e-enabled service through effective service delivery and marketing.
3) Leadership - electronic joined up public services providing strong local solutions for local circumstances.
The announcement of the finalists follows last week's publication of the Government's IT strategy, 'Transformational Government' - which promises a wide-ranging plan to transform and improve UK public services via IT and e-Government.
The government IT strategy has three key points:
1) Services enabled by IT must be designed around the citizen or business, not the provider, and provided through modern, co-ordinated delivery channels. This will improve the customer experience, achieve better policy outcomes, reduce paperwork burdens and improve efficiency by reducing duplication and routine processing, leveraging delivery capacity and streamlining processes.
2) Government must move to a shared services culture - in the front-office, in the back-office, in information and in infrastructure - and release efficiencies by standardisation, simplification and sharing.
3) There must be broadening and deepening of government's professionalism in terms of the planning, delivery, management, skills and governance of IT enabled change. This will result in more successful outcomes; fewer costly delivery failures; and increased confidence by citizens and politicians in the delivery of change by the public services.
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