Socitm publishes briefing on the Government ICT Strategy

In the briefing Socitm expresses disappointment at the Strategy's over-riding emphasis on reducing the cost of ICT. Socitm believes that a better focus for the Strategy would have been the much greater potential to cut government's costs through effective deployment of ICT in the delivery of public services. Socitm's Head of Policy Martin Ferguson, who wrote the briefing, comments: 'While reducing unnecessary ICT cost is critical in the current financial climate, too much focus on cutting ICT costs could prevent investment in technologies that would enable savings dwarfing anything that could be achieved by cutting ICT costs alone'. You can download a copy of the briefing from this site.

Download A Socitm policy briefing: The Government ICT Strategy: Smarter, Cheaper, Greener