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Sections
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Executive Summary
- Being Digital
- A Competitive Digital Communications Infrastructure
- Radio: Going Digital
- Creative Industries in the Digital World
- Public Service Content in Digital Britain
- Research, Education and Skills for Digital Britain
- Digital Security and Safety
- The Journey to Digital Government
- Delivering Digital Britain
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The Journey to Digital Government
The Government as a Player in the Digital Economy
“In the current economic circumstances businesses are facing up to real challenges of cutting costs in order to stay in business and emerge stronger from the downturn. The public sector needs to do likewise, looking for savings in addition to the routine savings departments are expected to make each year, so that the Government can [...]
→ Read moreDelivery of online public services
8. Websites such as Directgov and businesslink.gov are successfully serving the citizen and business audiences for Government. Directgov today delivers a wide range of services and has more than 14 million visits each month. It is the place to go to apply for a job, plan a journey, find local services on a mobile phone, [...]
→ Read moreEfficient and smart Public Sector procurement of ICT systems and products
18. In delivering the second phase of Digital Government, the Government’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the CIO Council have made huge progress in developing the capability and strategy in the public sector for efficient procurement and use of ICT. Work is well underway to create a Public Sector Network (PSN), to supersede the overlapping [...]
→ Read moreRecognising data as an innovation currency
37. Data and information are the lifeblood of the knowledge economy. It is monetisable: businesses are built around the gathering, control and manipulation of data. But it is also a public good, and availability in data on the web has led to an explosion in user-generated, non-profit content and collaboration.
38. There are though two broad [...]
Deriving maximum value from public, anonymous, data
41. The US has taken the lead in increasing public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government through the creation of www.data.gov, which provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available. It has also invited people to actively participate in shaping [...]
→ Read moreGetting full national value from public sector content
51. As we discussed in Chapter 5, public service content is no longer the preserve of the broadcasters. The public sector provides significant investment in the development of online content, services and applications in the UK. Research by Analysys Mason shows that Government commissioning may represent as much as 30% of total investment in professional [...]
→ Read moreThe safe deposit of personal data
62. In the digital economy information, from the mundane to the highly personal, is easily disseminated and manipulated, but control and access to this information can be extremely valuable. The new forms of gathering and using personal data can lead to concern from users and mistrust not only of bodies and institutions but of the [...]
→ Read moreA digital delivery agency for Digital Britain
71. Finally, we propose that as the result of this process, Government explores the possibility of a new Digital Delivery Agency to implement many of the key recommendations of Digital Britain.
72. In the past communications policy was delivered in silos of telecoms, content and standards, broadcasting, radio and spectrum. The Communications Act 2003 was the [...]
