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Excellently
connected |
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Socitm
Insight is raising the bar on what it expects councils
to achieve in terms of website performance. A new rank of ‘E’
– for an excellent website – will join the now familiar
P, C, C+ and T when the 2007 Better Connected report is
undertaken. |
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Using
personal data - benefits and risks |
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Government
ambitions to deliver more effective and personalised public services
implicitly depend on effective use and management of personal information.
And key to making the most of personal data are privacy, accountability
and trust, says a new report from the Council for Science and Technology
(CST). |
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Better
intra-connected? |
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Annual
Better Connected reports have served to both measure and
stimulate a massive improvement in websites over the last eight
years. With demand growing for a similar quality control process
for intranets, SPiN and Socitm Insight held a workshop
in December to look at how this might work. This report by Helen
Williams and Angela Frodin. |
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Click
use - free solution to information licensing headache |
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The
Office of Public Sector Information unveils plans to offer at no
charge the Click-Use core licensing system to any public sector
organisation that wants to adopt it. |
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Directgov
goes local |
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The
concept of a single starting point for all government services,
pioneered by Directgov, is about to spread its net to cover the
80% of services provided through local authorities. |
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ICT
hub |
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Development
of the ICT Hub promises to be an effective ICT infrastructure for
the voluntary and community sector in England. |
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Going
global |
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Attempting
to make a large, constantly updated website available in eight or
more languages poses huge challenges in terms of information management.
Even more critically, the costs look positively stratospheric. Stuart
Webster looks at Lincolnshire's successful 'middle ground' approach. |
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