To maintain in achieving the budget cuts urged by the central government, several IT leaders coming from the five county councils located at the east coast of Britain have started the distinctive discussions regarding with the sharing network infrastructure services. At the IT Leaders Forum in London Stock Exchange, Goy Roper, the head of ICT at Norfolk County Council discussed in front of some IT bosses and he said that Essex, Lincolnshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Kent County Council CIOs are gathering to deliberate where they can share IT services.
He added that apparently several county councils also do the same things, some things that they do better and some things others do better. So they would be a consumer of several services and a provider for others. By decreasing duplication while sustaining or even developing service provision to citizens. He added that the Norfolk County Council encounters cuts of about £155 million while the demand for services is increasing.
Applicable with the central government’s PSN or Public Service Network standards is the fundamental collaboration that is likely to be in disaster recovery, in assuring all county councils’ network infrastructure and procurement. Established under the last Labour government, the PSN is a public sector network of networks. Roper said that the PSN turned out very restrained after the election, however, the Cabinet Office is finally moving into adoption. But he said that no new money was prepared in the implementation.
As demand for cooperation develops between units like education services, health, police and fire, the group of five county councils could unfold to other eastern England public sector bodies. While earlier Norfolk County Council caters some services for other eastern England public sector bodies like the Fisheries Authority and the Great Yarmouth Council. Roper stated that the politics subside as soon as others propose saving money, however sometimes politics gets in the way.
The IT Leaders Forum was entitled Intelligent networking for an uncertain world and it was sponsored by BT. To talk about how they are preparing their networks for the changing needs of increased demand for consumerization, mobility and video, the IT heads coming from different sectors such as education, healthcare, media, financial services, engineering, public sector, services including construction assembled at the London Stock Exchange.
REFERENCES:
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2157751/eastern-county-council-cios-network-sharing-talks
http://localuknews.co.uk/article/eastern-county-council-cios-in-network-sharing-talks
http://newinly.com/ne/c,dgocxyg,n
