Building public trust

Building public trust is a pre-condition for reaping the benefits of large government IT transformation programmes. Two of the themes of Transformational Government strategy - to design public services around the needs of citizens and to move towards a shared services culture - have thrown Information Assurance sharply into the spotlight. An interconnection of data and systems that is unprecedented in UK Government is demanded, increasing the potential security risks to public information as it passes through an increasingly complex web of systems.

Information Assurance was once the sole responsibility of the IT department. However, it has risen up the agenda and is now regarded as a key business priority. This paper outlines how the vision for joined-up Government requires a more holistic approach to Information Assurance.

Read the paper in full here (PDF, 818KB)

This paper is the 4th in a series of papers specifically focusing on IT in the UK Public Sector. To read the previous three papers, please click on the links below.

• Doing the right things right - Enterprise Architecture for UK Government Organisations
• Doing more with less - Asset re-use and UK public sector transformation
• Five Million People Around the Water-Cooler: How the UK public sector can harness the power of social networking
• Making information matter: Making sense of the information challenge in the UK public sector

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