*UK Government: Digital by Default* November 17, 2012 By SGV The UK's Government Digital Strategy, released by the Cabinet Office on November 6, 2012, uses a list of principles and concrete actions to build a framework for re-engineering government. At the release of the strategy, Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, stated: "Britain is in a global race and that's why we need to have a modern, efficient, digital-by-default public services that are fit for the 21st Century". [...] The 11 central principles informing the Digital Strategy follow: 1. *Improve departmental digital leadership --*"Proven leadership in digital transformation." 2. *Develop digital capability throughout the civil service --*"Becoming a digital civil service." 3. *Redesign transactional services to meet a new digital by default service standard --*"Digital services so good that all who can use them, prefer to use them." 4. *Complete the transition to GOV.UK --*"Simpler, clearer and faster for users." 5. *Increase the number of people who use digital services --*"More users, using more services, more often." 6. *Provide consistent services for people who have rarely or never been online --*"Services for everyone entitled to them." 7. *Broaden the range of those tendering to supply digital services including more small and medium sized enterprises --*"Get the best bidders bidding." 8. *Build common technology platforms for digital by default services --*"Develop on platforms, not in silos." 9. *Remove unnecessary legislative barriers --*"A letter shouldn't have to be on paper." 10. *Base service decisions on accurate and timely management information --*"Data trumps intuition." 11. *Improve the way that the government makes policy and communicates with people --*"Open policy making will become the default." [...] Continua qui: http://www.openinggovernment.org/uk-government-digital-by-default/