Comments on: Tr Gov: some final thoughts http://idealgovernment.com/2006/01/tr_gov_some_final_thoughts/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:03:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Johnny Mnemonic http://idealgovernment.com/2006/01/tr_gov_some_final_thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-683 Johnny Mnemonic Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:45:02 +0000 http://tr_gov_some_final_thoughts#comment-683 No need to conduct a research study: there is not the slightest possibility of transformational government through IT in the UK. Why? Well, ask yourself who will get fired over this... .... An information technology fiasco in the Rural Payments Agency means that England's 120,000 farmers may get only part of their new subsidy payments next month, a minister admitted yesterday. Farmers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have already been paid their single farm payments in part. They cannot be paid in full because this has to wait until England has worked out each of its farmers' entitlements. The committee said that payments to Accenture, the consultancy given the job of writing the software and making it work, had risen from £18 million to £37 million. ... Nice work if you can get it, this public sector IT gig. No need to conduct a research study: there is not the slightest possibility of transformational government through IT in the UK. Why? Well, ask yourself who will get fired over this…

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An information technology fiasco in the Rural Payments Agency means that England’s 120,000 farmers may get only part of their new subsidy payments next month, a minister admitted yesterday.

Farmers in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have already been paid their single farm payments in part. They cannot be paid in full because this has to wait until England has worked out each of its farmers’ entitlements.

The committee said that payments to Accenture, the consultancy given the job of writing the software and making it work, had risen from £18 million to £37 million.
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Nice work if you can get it, this public sector IT gig.

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