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Ian Grant
"The UK government needs to improve its ability to deliver effective IT-based systems at reasonable cost. But the proposed solution could change utterly the relationship between the state and the citizen. In 1963 Prime Minister Harold Wilson gave Britain a vision of a new era forged in the ‘white heat’ of technology. Forty years on, Wilson’s political heir, Tony Blair, seeks to apply that technology to transform the way government interacts with its citizens and with itself. Never mind the privacy and data sharing issues that lie at the heart of the proposed transformation. In government IT, the chief risk is a shift in direction of the political wind. When newspaper headline drive policy, expect choppy seas." [Fianance; Inf Tech]
