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| seamlessUK service grows by 40% |
| Author: | seamlessUK |
| Date: | Tuesday, 9th Mar 2004 15:02 |
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40% growth in seamlessUK membership
Another four local authorities have joined seamlessUK, bringing to thirteen the number of authorities using seamlessUK to deliver nationally sourced and locally provided community information services to their citizens. The new councils: Croydon, Greenwich, Lambeth and Southwark are all members of the SEaLEGS partnership (South East London E-Government Services) and join the other partners (Bromley, Bexley and Lewisham) who were already involved in the seamlessUK project partnership. This brings the services of seamlessUK to a population of over 2 million across the SEaLEGS partner authorities.
Lawrence Ovenden, e-Services Manager at Croydon Council commented, “Croydon Council joined seamlessUK as part of our regional local authority partnership in south east London. With our SEaLEGS partner boroughs we are developing a south east London web portal. By using seamlessUK we will be able to provide residents of Croydon, and the wider area, with the ability to search for and find relevant community and public service information across local authority boundaries. We wish to encourage community development and involvement across south east London and view seamlessUK as an important component of fulfilling that goal.”
As this latest group of joiners demonstrates, councils view seamlessUK as a vitally important strand in e-government compliance. With 90% of e-government projects predicted to become fully functional during 2004-05[1], seamlessUK has experienced an influx of enquiries about joining and predictions are that more councils are preparing to become members in the near future.
The recent publication by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the top 10 local e-government priorities and key transformation areas is throwing the spotlight on the role of community information in the run up to 2005.
Cllr Bonnie Hart, Cabinet Member for Lifelong Learning and Libraries of Essex County Council comments, “seamlessUK is designed to provide a solution for community information delivery and can deliver best practice or mandatory compliance against multiple priority areas including community information, libraries and learning and service accessibility. The project is also a proven framework for developing local strategic partnerships”.
Originally NOF-funded, seamlessUK is now sustained by its members, offering the security of longevity and a pathway for future growth and development. Partners joining seamlessUK can immediately benefit from the work carried out by the existing partners and implement a best practice service for delivering joined up information to citizens. Joining seamlessUK delivers:
Quality information from thirteen national providers including the BBC, nhs.uk and AdviceGuide from Citizens Advice.
Integration of local community resources, joining up databases and websites from multiple agencies to deliver best of breed information.
Use of the standardised seamlessUK public-facing community information taxonomy and integrated geographic data sets for searching by subject and by place.
seamlessUK information delivered through locally branded portals and existing council communication channels.
Advice on seamlessUK-compliant portal and search system suppliers.
e-government technology specialist and seamlessUK technology partner, Fretwell-Downing Informatics, will be showcasing the latest features of seamlessUK at epi2004 on May 21st at the NEC Birmingham and at London Connects on 6th July. Helen Leech from Medway Council has also accepted an invitation to speak on the topic of seamless information portals at the epi2004 conference.
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NOTES TO EDITORS:
seamlessUK
seamlessUK is the development of a national structure of community information portals – a locally branded citizen’s gateway for each council partner. seamlessUK is nationally scaleable and hospitable to all major content (information and services) providers and standards. The project software enables multilingual users and visually impaired citizens to access sources of information and complies with e-GIF and e-GMS standards. seamlessUK partners include: Bexley, Brighton and Hove, Bromley, Croydon, East Sussex, Essex, Greenwich, Kent, Lambeth, London Borough of Lewisham, Medway, North Lincolnshire and the London Borough of Southwark.
www.seamless-uk.info
SEaLEGS
www.londonconnects.org.uk (e-partnerships section)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Catherine Dhanjal, TheAnswer Ltd, Tel: 0208 655 0953/0794 166 9925
Catherine.dhanjal@theansweruk.com
Date: 9th March 2004 Ref: TA-202
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[1] Implementing e-Government, A Kable Guide, 2004
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