Local government is definitely not on track

The survey of 97 local government officers and members, which was conducted at the IRRV Annual conference in October, revealed that only 68% of respondents believe that their authority is on track to meet e-government targets.

This means that around a third of local governments are not confident of meeting the target, further highlighting the wide variations in e-government progress, and backing up the results of two other similar surveys released in the past week.

An e-Gov Monitor report out earlier this week, revealed that while some local authorities are confident of meeting the target, some neglected to even answer the 2005 target question on their Implementing Electronic Government (IEG3) Statements, which had to be submitted to the Deputy Prime Minister's Office by 10 November.

The e-Gov Monitor report also found that many local authorities are putting off e-government projects until they know the outcome of national e-government projects.

Meanwhile, another survey, jointly carried out by Oracle and the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers (SOLACE) and published last Friday, revealed that over half (56%) of those questioned do not believe that services will be fully e-enabled within their own organisation by 2005.

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