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John Suffolk, Government Chief Information Officer sets out his future vision, in the forward to the Cabinet Office ‘Transformational Government: enabled by technology’ annual report, published 10th January 2007. This is what he says:

"The Transformational Government strategy sets out a six-year improvement journey for public services. In the first 18 months, we said we would deliver improvements already in the pipeline and build capacity for future transformation."

"This is the first annual report showing progress towards delivering that strategy. We recognise within this report three things. Firstly, the progress we have made against each of our published work strands; secondly, the work we are doing to improve business change programmes that have an information and communication technology (ICT) element; and finally, the substantial benefit ICT provides to millions of people every day.

"What has struck me in my short time as the Government Chief Information Officer is the sheer scale and complexity of the public sector and the ubiquitous uses to which ICT is put. It is amazing to think that we operate in over 140 countries, run some of Europe’s and indeed the world’s largest computer systems, and process tens of millions of transactions every single day of the year.

"We are at the beginning of the Transformational Government strategy and we recognise that we have more to do – more to do on using ICT to improve public services; more to do on improving the value we create from the investment we make; and more to do on improving the success rate of our business change programmes.""

"We will provide a further update in our next annual report in 12 months’ time."

"The IT profession within the public sector has an estimated 50,000 dedicated people. Every day their dedication and hard work support those who keep the traffic flowing, who ensure that benefits are being paid, who save lives, who educate our children and who prevent crime. As Head of Profession, I would like to take this opportunity to thank them and also thank the tens of thousands of IT professionals in the private sector who support us in these endeavours."

Government CIO John Suffolk is the keynote speaker at next week's e-Government National Conference, where he will give a keynote speech explaining how far Transformational Government has come in the past year, and indicating his roadmap for the future. The conference is on the afternoon of 17th January at the Savoy Hotel in London. A few tickets are still left - To book to attend, see this link.

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The ‘Transformational Government: enabled by technology’ annual report is at this link

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www.businesslink.gov.uk

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