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Let's shine a light into the public sector IT money pit
Comment It's a hard lesson to learn - particularly for the UK taxpayer - who has seen the government throw increasingly large sums of money at public sector IT and then watched as civil service productivity has slumped. [17 Aug 2009]
Revealed: How much scrapping the ID card would save the taxpayer
News Head over to ZDNet.co.uk to find out just how much scrapping the ID card would save the UK taxpayer. Since its very inception, there has been no shortage of voices clamouring for the end of the ID card scheme. [13 Aug 2009]
Kolektor Improves Taxpayer Convenience and Payment Efficiency With Integrated IT Platform
White Paper The challenge was to improve access to tax information for officials and citizens by making it available online and automate procedures for paying and collecting taxes to improve taxpayer services. Kolektor wanted to... [30 Jul 2009]
Tesoreria General de la Republica de Chile Uses Scalable Platform to Create a Tax Payment Web Site
White Paper Treasury Department wanted to replace obsolete systems with a scalable platform to improve and automate the extraction and administration of data related to handling public funds and creates a robust database to provide rapid access to... [30 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up Meanwhile, the policy train-wreck that is the ID cards scheme got even more painful this week after it was revealed that the scheme to hand out the cards to airport staff has cost the taxpayer more than £12m. [24 Jul 2009]
£24.4m written off on government IT project
News The aim of the work is to ensure that Her Majesty's government and, ultimately, the taxpayer recover the appropriate value from the supplier which relates to those undelivered parts of the programme. The government has... [17 Jul 2009]
Bidding, Purchasing, Execution: Streamline Municipal Government Purchasing With EDM and Workflow
White Paper With streamlined administration in place, one can procure the most suitable, highest quality goods and services for an even lower cost, helping one achieve more with every taxpayer dollar one collects. [10 Jul 2009]
Tories tell vendors: 'Don't sign ID card contracts'
News If the government now wrote contracts recklessly, including extra provisions that cost the taxpayer money, that would be outrageous behaviour by ministers," said Green. The Conservatives have urged a group of technology... [18 Jun 2009]
Signing off a gov't IT contract? Don't move a muscle
News These include 20 projects undertaken by the Ministry of Defence that are set to cost £3bn more than originally planned, and a Department for Transport shared services initiative that aimed to save £57m but will now cost the... [16 Jun 2009]
A Trust Infrastructure for ePassports: Building Reliable, Timely and Cost-Effective Trust Links for Electronic Travel Document Verification
White Paper Whether it's driver's or professional licenses, birth certificates, taxpayer ID numbers, or other Personally Identifiable Information (PII), citizens rely on governments to safeguard their information and keep it from... [14 May 2009]
Chip and PIN for ID cards: Not such a sharp idea?
News If it were possible to add chip and PIN capabilities there could be benefits for the government and taxpayer too: relying on EMV technology and cryptography could cut the cost of implementing the scheme, as the... [15 Apr 2009]
BT deal 'has killed risk of NHS IT walkout'
News That would have been an absolute disaster for the NHS and the taxpayer. One of the only two suppliers left for the £12.7bn project to revamp NHS IT has staked its commitment to the project by signing a new deal with the... [06 Apr 2009]
£8.5bn: Local government's outsourcing bill
News Shared services projects have had a mixed history in the public sector: a recent shared services centre implementation by the Department for Transport that aimed to save £57m ended up costing the taxpayer £81m and was... [18 Mar 2009]
"I'm not an out and out technology person"
Comment The idea of reusing technology among public sector bodies is a particularly pressing one in light of the increasing interest that Boss sees from the taxpayer on how public money is spent and how government services are... [09 Mar 2009]
Help for gov't IT projects arrives in new tools
News The tool "looks to strengthen the likelihood of achieving positive outcomes, providing better value for money for the taxpayer", the OGC said. The Office of Government Commerce has introduced two new tools that it hopes... [12 Jan 2009]
