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1) Setting the Information Society Agendas for the Next Government
The event for Parliamentary Candidates on 10th December on “Smarter
Britain” heard examples of very rapid payback (one under 14 days)
from giving mobiles to health visitors and other front line service
delivery staff to cut desk-bound paperwork. We are working with the
Industry and Parliament Trust on joint events for candidates.
Contact
JessicaCampbell@ipt.org.uk for details. An additional event for
candidates has been suggested on how we could/should protect content
that is being distributed over the Internet, including tracking and
tracing those whose traffic is in dispute or illegal.
2) Setting the Information and Identity Governance Agendas
On
3rd February the Identity Governance Subgroup will discuss
objectives and terms of reference for an exercise to address the
issues of responsibility, liability, accountability and
interoperability across civil-military, public-private and
international boundaries as well as across departmental or
application boundaries - including topics like voter registration.
The Security by Design report is
being revised to reflect reviewers’ comments and will be launched
with a briefing for candidates on why political action is needed.
Recent studies by the Audit Commission show performance correlating
with quality of information management and massive variations in
both. We are working together on a high level round table on the
afternoon of 22nd February, on the political implications.
3)
Setting a Realistic "More for Less"
Public Service Delivery Agenda
The meeting of the Public Sector Procurement subgroup on 12th
January agreed objectives for the visit to Holland on 4th February,
co-operation with the Industry and Parliament Trust on an exchange
programme with service delivery suppliers (hopefully joint with
Intellect) and an exercise (joint with the Communications Group and
others) to identify good practice in the planning and procurement of
shared network services. It also agreed an exercise on security
procurement, including to support implementation of the
recommendations in the Security by Design report.
4) Implementing the e-Crime Reduction Agenda
On 26th January e-Skills-UK will host a meeting to discuss the creation of the
security section of the National Skills Academy for IT: qualifications, courses
and materials to meet known employer needs. The aim is to identify a team of
employers (law enforcement, security agencies, financial services, telcos, ISPs
etc.) and suppliers (relevant accreditations, qualifications, courses, materials
etc.) and agree broad terms of reference and an initial action plan. Meetings
are also being organised to bring together those working on the needs of small
firms, on awareness programmes and on first point of contact exercises. Meetings
on the other areas for which we have volunteers will follow.
5)
Rebuilding and Sustaining the UK High-Tech
Skills Base
The funding crises in Further and Higher Education in the face of
rising applications for vocational courses from all ages and at all
levels, raise the need for innovative thinking. There are a growing
number of global lifelong learning networks but UK players appear
more interested in co-operating with partners in China or the US
than in other parts of the UK. Meanwhile ICT employers are moving up
the value chain in their use of imported staff for those tasks not
being outsourced overseas. Please e-mail
eurim@eurim.org if you would
like to support, or help organise and drive, work in this space.
6) Communications
The Prime Minister has written on the need to deliver high speed broadband
across the UK. The next Communications Group meeting, on 18th January, will look
at the EU timetable and agenda for 2010 and guidance for candidates supporting
campaigns for local Next Generation Networks. We expect to work on this with
ApComms, the All Party Group on Rural Services and others. Several candidates
have already volunteered to help review the material with a view to using it in
their own election campaigns. The meeting will also discuss a possible joint
exercise on EU Patent Law Reform and on IPR enforcement, including the practical
side of collating reports and intelligence and organising action against
commercial pirates in the context of the proposals in the Digital Britain Bill.
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