UK Government Open Standards Consultation

The UK Government has recognised that Information Technology across its estate is expensive, with departments purchasing IT in ways that has produced “disconnected, self-contained departments”. To tackle this, the Cabinet Office is consulting on the use of effective open technical standards to deliver interoperability between software systems, applications and data: “Open Standards are crucial for sharing information across government boundaries and to deliver a common platform and systems that more easily interconnect.”

This is a very important consultation and the CTPR encourages widespread participation – please visit the Cabinet Office consultation website for more details and to have your say.

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The Centre for Technology Policy Research (CTPR) is an independent organisation that helps ensure information and communications technologies (ICT) are better understood and exploited across public, private and voluntary sector boundaries.