ICT Leader Of The Year Expresses Her Pride And Thanks!

 

Anne Moises, Chief Information Officer for the Scottish Government, was named ICT Public Sector Leader of 2011 last week at the prestigious UK Public Sector Digital Awards, the unqiue process celebrating celebrating excellence in ICT enabled service delivery across all sectors of government and publi service delivery.

 

Moises was selected as Leader by open vote on this site for her work in creating a formal career development structure for the Scottish Government’s ICT staff, as well as her leadership role in the development and maintenance of the infrastructure that supports Holyrood.

 

“I am absolutely delighted – or to use Scottish vernacular, dead chuffed!” said Moises. “I particularly appreciate the fact I was voted for by my peers.”

 

Speaking to PublicTechnology.net, Moises was charmingly modest, stressing her feelings that the rest of the shortlist – those peers she is referring to – had all done work that she felt “outclassed” her own.

 

When asked what factors had led the readership of PublicTechnology.net voting her the accolade, Moises pointed to the early successes she and her team have had in delivering more connected e-government.

 

“That’s probably down to the fact that we are smaller in the Scottish government up here than in Whitehall, which may allow us to be a bit more agile – possibly,” she thinks.

 

So what does 2012 hold in store, does she think? “We need to continue to turn the vision outlined by John McClellan in his landmark report on procurement http://www.publictechnology.net/content/4653 into a reality - that’s my main ongoing ambition for the year,” she said.