Every citizen to have a webpage ...

Craig321 said:
As I understood it they mean personal website as in you'll have e.g. details of your personal GP, how to contact them and book an appointment, details of your car tax/renewals/notifications, details of your benefits (if you have any) and any other personal services you have.
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I already have web access for my GP and have done for the past year and a half. As statedi n other posts, its non-standard at the moment!

As usual, not one standard but many!
 
Craig321 said:
The site sounds like a good idea, if executed properly.

It could be a complete disaster if they don't get some decent programmers/developers in though (not forgetting security analysts and some hackers to test the system before it's released ;))

Will be good to truly have everything in one place with a decent system that actually works.
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Unfortunately the government will look over all the plans, then go for the lowest cost option, which then turns into a massively over budget and time project as it wasn't done properly in the first place...:rolleyes:

Is it just me that hates being called a citizen? It just has connotations of being stuck in a dictatorship (think Nazi Germany). I'd much rather be a subject, which to me makes it sound like someone cares. :(:p
 
So does this mean teachers and doctors will be pestered every minute of the day by hordes of 'the concerned' via some sort of government 'facebook' ?

Anyway, this nonsense will be hacked in five seconds flat. It's a pot of gold at the end of the digital rainbow.

d_brennen said:
Great idea but it will not work because public sector projects like this never do. They need to get a profit making firm in to implement it and make it work
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So they can sell off our details to interested parties?
 
I've said for years that the jobcentre/council tax/benefits system/tax ought to have some better streamlining with each department (so they all know who is entitled to what, with greater efficiency), but I don't think the idea of not having an apathetic council employee to deal with my query in person, is a particularly good one.
 
d_brennen said:
Great idea but it will not work because public sector projects like this never do. They need to get a profit making firm in to impliment it and make it work
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It'll be outsourced anyway to a private company, do you work in the public sector at all? Very few national projects are kept in-house as they never keep staff trained or give them the backing to take on anything like this.

It'll be done by BT/ATOS etc. or outsourced via them to some other random company, probably abroad :p
 
K.C. Leblanc said:
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This is pie in the sky because we have an election coming up.
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Agreed. They just want an idea they can sell themselves on in the election. Although they might try to implement it in order to get everyone uniquely identified online and increase monitoring of everyone, which is the main purpose of this government.

Of course, the project would cost at least 5 times as much as they claim it will, will arrive late, work inadequately and be as secure as a fishnet condom.

It's yet another recipe for increasing identity fraud and making it more thorough.
 
Pesky elderly, they're already holding up the move away from cheques, local Post Offices and pretty much any form of innovation.

Should get with the program tbh or off to the camps with 'em :p
 
Andelusion said:
There'll be a huge uproar from those (most likely elderly) members of the public who do not, nor wish to own a computer.
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Maybe, but there has to come a day when these kinds of services and internet access is as normal for everyone at all ages as having running water, and everyone as at least a basic understanding of the internet, if modernising these kinds of services helps in any small way to move closer towards that goal then I'm all for it, it's not as if people that are incapable of using the new service will be refused help in the more conventional sense.

I think ultimately it 'could' save money, although I'm not sure about the people that might be losing their jobs because of this system.
 
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Whether or not you believe Labour are corrupt, you have to admit this technology is open to abuse by any future government.
 
Good idea but no doubt they're overpaying some idiot who doesn't have a clue what they're doing to plan it.
So it'll probably end up way over budget, as the overpaid idiot will inevitably not understand a budget.
 
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