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Brown announces online measures to save money
Monday 7th December 2009, by Daniel King
British prime minister Gordon Brown revealed today (Monday December 7th) that the government has identified a number of "efficiency savings" since this year's Budget - and a number of them involve a focus on broadband and the general web.
Developing online school reports, which broadband-subscribing parents will be able to access, is one way of saving money and cutting bureaucracy, Mr Brown explained during a speech in London.
The prime minister's announcement came two days ahead of chancellor Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report.
During the address, Mr Brown indicated that the Labour party will aim to use technological advances in order to make certain services more user-friendly and less expensive than they are at present.
"As a result of the work of [the government's champion for digital inclusion] Martha Lane Fox, our aim is - within the next five years - to shift the great majority of our large transactional services to become online only," he remarked.
Broadband customers will also be able access all public services performance data online by 2011 - this will include information on crime statistics, hospital costs and parts of the national pupil database.
Last week, professor of computer science at the University of Southampton Dame Wendy Hall told delegates at the Digital Media London Technology Network conference that the government's Digital Britain report has a lack of vision.
She explained that the web has flourished among consumers, businesses and governments, but its future needs to be protected.
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