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James Murray - IT Week,
"Public sector IT has come a long way but systemic changes are still needed to gain the public's respect. Change the way the government predicts costs for large-scale IT projects. Thesituation remains unchallenged because the Treasury accepts that keeping the estimates for IT projects low, however spurious the numbers may be, makes it far easier to get ultimately beneficial systems approved by Parliament. Breaking this cycle of inaccuracy would allow the government to finally enforce the culture of accountability that is desperately needed to restore confidence in public sector IT projects. But where is the accountability when government IT failures occur? The minister in charge always takes a pounding as they trot out the same tired excuses; the IT providers usually get a lot of flak for being incompetent, money-grabbing racketeers; but the Teflon civil servants simply keep their heads down and move on to the next project."
