The Government ICT Strategy, subtitled ‘New world, new challenges, new opportunities’, sets out the direction for government ICT until 2020.
It assembles many of the ideas that have featured over the past year in talks by the chief information officer, John Suffolk, into a whole. As revealed by UKauthority.com (23 September), it also maps closely to the Operational Efficiency Programme, which requires savings of £3.2bn from the more efficient use and procurement of IT.
According to a draft copy, the strategy’s elements include:
- A move to ‘cloud computing’; ‘The Government Cloud’ means that organisations will be able to pay per use for applications. They will be able to access a software licence that is assigned to the Crown and transferable across the public sector; organisations will be able to adopt a ‘pay as you go’ model – paying only for the time applications are actually in use.
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A new government-wide IT strategy, refreshing the four-year-old Transformational Government programme and aligning it with new Treasury initiatives, is likely to be published alongside the Pre-Budget Report on 9 December, UKauthority.com understands. It will also accompany Treasury secretary Liam Byrne’s ’smarter government’ report, which sets out plans for rationalising Whitehall.
The Government ICT Strategy, subtitled ‘New world, new challenges, new opportunities’, sets out the direction for government ICT until 2020.
It assembles many of the ideas that have featured over the past year in talks by the chief information officer, John Suffolk, into a whole. As revealed by UKauthority.com (23 September), it also maps closely to the Operational Efficiency Programme, which requires savings of £3.2bn from the more efficient use and procurement of IT.
According to a draft copy, the strategy’s elements include:
- A move to ‘cloud computing’; ‘The Government Cloud’ means that organisations will be able to pay per use for applications. They will be able to access a software licence that is assigned to the Crown and transferable across the public sector; organisations will be able to adopt a ‘pay as you go’ model – paying only for the time applications are actually in use.
http://www.ukauthority.com/NewsArticle/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=2646
A new government-wide IT strategy, refreshing the four-year-old Transformational Government programme and aligning it with new Treasury initiatives, is likely to be published alongside the Pre-Budget Report on 9 December, UKauthority.com understands. It will also accompany Treasury secretary Liam Byrne’s ’smarter government’ report, which sets out plans for rationalising Whitehall.
