SOCITM (Society of Information Technology Management)
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Briefings explore how to tackle inconsistency, waste and duplicated effort across local government digital activity
How can local government best tackle the much discussed inconsistency, waste and duplicated effort across its digital activity, asks the first in a pair of new Socitm briefings to be ublished in July and August.
The briefings have been inspired by the ongoing debate sparked off in January by a blogpost calling for a single local government website.
The debate intensified when think tank The Policy Exchange picked this up in its Technology Manifesto published in June, suggesting that: "A local GDS hub should be set up … [to] provide practical support to help local authorities apply ‘Government as a Platform’ resources; advocate the adoption of open standards across the sector; and establish a single website for local government."
Socitm’s immediate response to the single local government website suggestion was to reject it on the basis that this would not deliver the benefits claimed, but even more important, that this would run counter to the principles of democracy and accountability that are embedded in local government.
The new briefing explores these issues in more detail.
