Description (short summary): The ICT strategy for the Government builds upon the previous policy announcements to deliver a high-quality ICT infrastructure. It is considered a substantial strategy for government. Transforming services against a backdrop of economic pressure requires leadership and a fundamental change in the way ICT in the public sector is specified, procured and delivered. It provides a common approach to ICT that maintains local accountability and control over implementation to meet unique delivery and business requirements.
The need to continue to transform public services and to use ICT to enable transformation of the way the public sector runs and operates has become more pressing. As the UK public sector has responded to increased and increasing demand within this complex technology arena, it has built an ICT infrastructure that in many instances duplicates solutions across different areas of government. The ICT Strategy will ensure that this infrastructure now goes through a process of standardisation and simplification, to create a common infrastructure designed to enable local delivery suited to local needs. Delivery will increasingly be through partnerships between the public, private and third sectors and this strategy focuses on providing the greater interoperability necessary to underpin this model.
The strategy applies to all of the UK public sector, whether central government, local government, wider public sector or devolved administrations. It is aligned with the Transformational Government and Digital Britain strategies, the National Information Assurance Strategy, the Cyber Security Strategy, Building Britain’s Future, Excellence and fairness, the Operational Efficiency Programme (OEP) and the recommendations of the Power of Information Task Force.
Number of pages: 65
Related publications:
- Digital Britain: The Final Report
- Operational Efficiency Programme
- Power of Information Taskforce Report - February 2009
ISBN Number: N/A
Description of license: © Crown copyright 2010
Nature of documentation: Policy/Strategy papers