March 21st 2007, Manchester United Football Ground, Old Trafford
T-Government 2007 - Defining the Future Challenges: Technology as an Enabler? is a landmark national conference, organised by Ten Alps Events to be held in the prestigious Trafford Conference Suite at Manchester United Stadium. This event provides an unique forum for debate and analysis of the future direction of this ground-breaking Government programme.
Striving to provide both answers and solutions to the key issues facing local government in 2007 and beyond, we are privileged to have Paul Bettison t-Government Champion for the Local Government Association as our conference chair, to guide and focus the debate.
The Transformational Government agenda strikes at the raison d’être of public service: challenging traditional boundaries; questioning accepted operational models; and identifying efficiencies and innovation in service delivery. The aim of the conference is to debate the role of technology, as an enabler for transformational government - its core role in this change process.
An exciting time of development, t-Government 2007 – Defining the future challenges: Technology as an enabler? comes at an opportune time for local government and aims to define the progress to date, the needs of the present and the future direction of this agenda.
Background to the event
The Gershon Efficiency Review first focused the public sector on unnecessary wastage and the possibilities for streamlining and sharing services across government. Sir David Varney’s recent Review of public service delivery reinforces this message, calling on the public sector to both effectively and efficiently target the customer. Moreover, with the Comprehensive Spending Review in 2007 expected to highlight the 3% efficiency savings target for local government, the role of technology remains pivotal to moving forward in 2007.
Reforms set out in the Local Government White Paper also impact on the transformation agenda influencing the strategic implementation of service delivery nationwide. This emphasises firstly, the engagement of the citizen in designing services and secondly, the opportunities for the public sector in terms of identifying new methods of partnership working across both council and organisational boundaries. Reinforcing the message of improving efficiency through shared services and better collaboration at all levels of government.