Tom Young, Computing, Friday 29 January 2010 at 14:38:00
Government web sites consolidated into one
The government has closed almost two-thirds of its web sites as it moves In 2006 The government has since revised this number up to 1,700 after departments In a letter to parliament, Mark Lund, chief executive of the Central Office "Of the 1,700 web sites identified by departments by 31 December 2009, 907 The intention is to make Directgov the The project reflects the vision of the Transformational Government agenda, Since launching in April 2004, the service has gone from being a purely
information onto its central site Directgov.
Sir David
Varney's review of public service transformation found that there were 1,499
government web sites, many with overlapping or conflicting information.
carried out a number of web site reviews.
of Information, wrote:
were closed with a further 479 still open but committed to be closed."
single
point of contact for all public information and services, enabling citizens
to find what they need easily.
which aims to centre public services around the citizen rather than vice versa.
online offering to being available on teletext and digital TV - accessible on
Freeview and Sky.
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2257019/two-thirds-government-web-sites
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