Making information matter

Information is the lifeblood of our age. Yet in government, as elsewhere, its sheer ubiquity can confound us. Information is endlessly volatile and duplicated, usually residing in separate systems and in different formats. It cannot be easily aligned, interrogated, consolidated or managed, and it arrives faster and via more channels than ever before. Despite £16bn being spent annually on ICT in the UK public sector (equivalent to over £265 per year for every man, woman and child in the country), Government agencies are still struggling to exploit the full potential of their data. Delivering services built on that data in a joined-up and cost effective way remains a challenge.

Read the paper in full here. (PDF, 784KB)

This paper is the 5th in a series of papers specifically focusing on IT in the UK Public Sector.
To read the previous four 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
• Building Public Trust: The Role of Information Assurance in the UK Public Sector Transformation

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