Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Atkinson report: useful for measuring e-Government output and productivity / Public Technology, 1 Feb 2005

http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2375
"The Government needs to make “major improvements” in the way it measures the effectiveness of the billions of pounds it spends on public services, an official inquiry warned today. Sir Tony Atkinson, the Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford, said that current methods for assessing the output of the public sector were too limited and often based on information that was out of date."

Atkinson Report : http://www.statistics.gov.uk/about/data/methodology/specific/PublicSector/Atkinson/final_report.asp