By Sally Watson, 9 March 2001 16:30
NEWS One optimistic silicon.com reader set out to email the cyber-czar in person, but found http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk less than helpful in revealing the required address. "I thought this would be an easy task, occupying just a few minutes - but after an hour I've still had no luck." A quick visit to the online home of e-government shows it's more than an email address which is missing. According to the website's team pages at http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/2000/team/team.htm Pinder's predecessor Alex Allan is still e-envoy. A search for this year's team pages revealed nothing at all. If you dig a bit deeper into the site, Pinder's biography is there, but it still refers to him as 'acting' e-envoy, a temporary post he held until is official appointment in January. The front page of the site does carry a one-line notice of Pinder's appointment, but a search for the full press release returned only a familiar page cannot be displayed message. Perhaps there's something about the new e-envoy they don't want us to know? On his first official day in the job, Pinder told silicon.com that New Labour's web services would be much more than online brochures. "I really want to get interactive services which are interesting and joined-up," he said. Perhaps it would be better to get the brochures right first.
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