INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Information Technology

Information Technology

Introduction

Local government is a “cradle-to-grave” agency, supplying a broad range of services to local communities and disbursing formidable sums of money in the process. Most local authorities are also hard-pressed, in financial terms (Bovaird and Davis, 1996). Given these financial pressures, there is little money or time available within which to conduct learning and pursue public innovation: headroom is very tight. At the same time, the Labor Government is laying down a testing new challenge of effectiveness. The so-called “Best Value” regime demands that local government develop and implement services that meet the needs of local people to a progressively higher standard of quality - and the penalties for perceived failure are harsh.

This report is about Electronic Government in England. Several researches have been done through many ways and come out several conclusions. The main subject of this report is “Is England Ready for Electronic Government?” This has been the issue and question for many citizens of England and our neighbor countries.

What is Electronic Government?

Electronic government is the provision of government services through uses digital form, electronic means. In the past 5 years to the extent that England Government has invested hundreds of billion in information technologies, it has largely been focused on automation inside government, particularly in "back-office" functions. In short, there are a host of other applications that enable those who interact with government do it digitally.

Embracing digital government will let the civil servants, citizens and businesses more compelling reasons too get on-line and use digital technologies and also help speed the social transition to a digital economy. At the same time, it wills benefits the government cutting costs of providing services.

What are the benefits of Electronic Government?

Te Government of England has pledged to lead the country into the Information Age with employed multimedia technologies to re-invent the way in which government operates.

The Electronic Government will definitely improve both how the government operates internally and externally and ass well as how it delivers services to its own people (England). It is believe that it will improve the convenience, accessibility, and quality of interactions with citizens and business. Eventually, it will improve information flows, and follow by the process within government will also efficient such as quality of policy, coordination and enforcement. Electronic Government will surely play a vital role in catalyzing the MSC's development, as well as furthering the social, political and economic agenda under vision 2020.

Government of England is moving towards paperless transaction. Gradually, whole government will be digitize and interconnect to each other. The ideas of Electronic Government are as follow: -

i) Project Monitoring System - whereby there will be a monitoring project mechanism implementation created. The service allows for exchanging ideas and demonstrating best practice models in information management and communication services.

ii) Generic Office Environment - There will be fully integrated, distributed, and scalable paperless office environment for the Prime Minister's Office by deploying multimedia information technology. All civil servants will be provided with a quick and easy method to access up ...