Government Connect Secure Extranet programme shortlisted for
award
15 March 2010 – The Government Connect Secure
Extranet programme, as successfully delivered by the Department of
Work and Pensions (DWP) and supported by a team from Finmeccanica
company VEGA Consulting Services Ltd (VEGA), has been shortlisted
for the 2010 GC Award for Government Transformation.
The GC Awards (previously ‘GC
Awards for Innovation’) recognise those government programmes
judged to have made the most innovative use of technology to
improve public services. The creation of more customer-centric
services is one of the central themes of the Transformational
Government agenda. Those programmes shortlisted for the category of
Transformation have demonstrated clear benefits for both the
customer(s) and the organisation by significantly transforming the
interaction between the two parties.
The DWP team has successfully delivered a
network that allows all 375 local authorities across England
and Wales to securely connect to each other
and central government. VEGA provided support to the Programme
Support Office, the Requirements and System Architecture Team, a
Service Desk and Support Manager, and the majority of the central
and regionally-based Connectivity Team, including CLAS Security
Consultants who assessed GCSX CoCo submissions and were involved in more than
1,600 security assessments.
The network is now helping to meet ambitions
of the UK Government’s 'Transformational Government: Enabled by
Technology' IT strategy, by establishing a private, secure, managed
network for English
and Welsh Local Authorities to share sensitive information online,
quickly, easily, accurately and in real time.
This year, the GC Awards received a record
number of entries and the competition was extremely high. The
judging panel for the 2010 awards is made up of high profile senior
practitioners, academics and policy makers from across public
services including:
- Ailsa Beaton – Director of Information and Chief
Information Officer on the Metropolitan Police Service's Management
Board
- David Dinsdale – Programme Director,
Businesslink.gov.uk
- Dr Glynn Hayes – A founder member of the Primary Health
Care Specialist Group, British Computer Society (BCS), where he was
chair from 1985-1990
- Steve Palmer – Vice President, Socitm Limited and CIO, London
borough of Hillingdon
- Elizabeth Sparrow – President, BCS, the Chartered Institute for
IT
- Andrew Stott – Director, Digital Engagement for the UK
government, based at the Cabinet Office
- Carol Tullo – Director of The National Archives.
The winners of the awards are set to be
announced at a gala ceremony on Wednesday 21 April in central
London.
Further
information
For further information, please contact
Mark Gunning on mark.gunning@vega.co.uk.