Plenary: The Government's agenda for IT

Charity Finance Directors’ Group
Bill McCluggage
Deputy Government Chief Information Officer
& Director of ICT Strategy & Policy
Cabinet Office
NOT A STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT POLICY

Government’s agenda for IT:how will this impact the voluntary sector?

The key focus:
about putting more power into people’s hands and opening up Government - it involves changing ICT so it is interoperable between Whitehall and local communities.
people coming together to solve problems and improve life for themselves and their communities
“....where people in their everyday lives, their homes their neighbourhoods, their workplace, don’t always turn to officials, local authorities or central government for answers to the problems they face, but instead feel both free and powerful enough to help themselves and their own communities.”
Prime Minister, 19 July 2010

Building a

We need ICT to enable:
Community empowerment: giving local councils and neighbourhoods more power to take decisions and shape their area
Opening up public services: enabling charities, social enterprises, private companies and employee-owned co-operatives to compete to offer people high quality services
Social action: encouraging and enabling people to play a more active part in society

Challenges (Inward Facing)
Oligopoly of suppliers
Projects too big, unmanageable, slow to procure and implement
Infrastructure is not interconnected and interoperable
Solutions are duplicated and re-invented within organisations

Challenges (Inward Facing)
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Challenges (Outward Facing)
Foster social mobility
Enable economic growth
Delivering better public services
Greater government-citizen engagement
Greater transparency
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Government Policy
“We will promote small business procurement, in particular by introducing an aspiration that 25% of government contracts should be awarded to small and medium-sized businesses and publishing government tenders in full online and free of charge.”
Quoted from the Coalition Strategy for Government

Government Policy
“We will create a level playing field for open-source software and enable large ICT projects to be split into smaller £100m components.”
Coalition Programme for Government

Government Policy
“We will take steps to open up government procurement and reduce costs; and we will publish government ICT contracts online.”
Coalition Programme for Government

"The days of the mega IT contracts are over, we will need you to rethink the way you approach projects, making them smaller, off the shelf and open source where possible.”
Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office, 2nd December 2010

REALITY

Gartner Global ICT Spending Analysis (average) by ICT Element 2003 -2009 indicates where money is typically spent in ICT
So UK Gov ICT Spend?
Data Centres £3.2 bn
Desktop £1.85 bn
Data Network £1.69 bn
Voice Network £1.01 bn
Help Desk £1.18 bn
Application Dev £3.04 bn
Application Support £3.04 bn
Finance, Man, Admin £1.85 bn
£16.9bn
Source Gartner analysis January 2010

What does success look like?
(InWARD FACING)

A Common ICT Infrastructure:

CLOUD
COMPUTING

Key Commercials Principles – A Reminder

‘The 3 Rules’ of the Government Cloud
No up front investment - PAYG
No term lock-in
No volume lock-in
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Characteristics:
Elastic
Friction free
Procurement friendly
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Data Centre Consolidation
Today
Hundreds of public sector data centres running to different standards;- some at capacity limits, others with unused space.
Goals
Reduce to an optimum number of modern, resilient, efficient and secure data centres that may also act as infrastructure for the G-Cloud.
We want to maximise the amount of consolidation to help the Public Sector achieve savings.
End point
Significant Central Government DC reduction by 2020, and a reduction of 80% across the wider Public Sector.
“Delivering Public Sector ICT services from the optimum number of high performing, energy-efficient, resilient, cost-effective and standards based data centres”
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Cloud environments
Public Cloud: Services and infrastructure provided off-site over the Internet
Private Cloud: Services and infrastructure maintained on a private network
Hybrid Cloud: A variety of public and private options. Each aspect of the business uses the most efficient environment

Introduction to Foundation Delivery Partners
Foundation Delivery Partners (FDPs) will be “Public Sector bodies who have volunteered to build the initial G-Cloud services”
Services being Considered:
Web Hosting and Content Management
Infrastructure as a Service
Public Cloud Services
Collaboration Tools
Secure Email
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G-Cloud, isn’t one thing: It has five “worlds”: Hosting, Testing, Sharing, Web, SME. Departments want and need different things so G-Cloud needs to offer them flexibility to make the offer compelling…
“Testing
world”
I don’t want to buy computers to test new systems, can I rent them from you?
DirectGov
“Hosting world”
“Shared world”
My computer systems are fine, I just want to close my data centres and use yours.
ERP – HR/ Finance
Gateway & ID
Shared App
BusinessLink
Apps
Give me economies of scale, security and growth, reduce my capex need
What can be shared, should be shared. Common shared systems for all too use.
“SME
world”
data.gov
I want to use your G-Cloud to offer services to my non Government customers. UK tax growth, innovation
“Web world”
Online/web services to employees/ citizens and business

So where does the Application Store for Government fit in? It’s a bad name, think of an eBay for Government, but with a twist…
It Includes this:
Classifieds, Buy it now, Auctions
Suppliers/ SME’s can have their own store front
Anyone can be in the store
Marketing is cheap
SME’s don’t need capital to “prove” their software… they can test it on the G-Cloud
No SI lock-in
No Technology stack lock-in
Government Applications Store
“eBay”
Shared
Hosting
Testing
Web
SME
App
App
App
Data Storage
App
Processing Capacity
App
App
Security, Resilience, Support
Any “application” from any supplier can be deployed on a common infrastructure using any back end technology stack (the lines)
Software design, development , testing and integration tools/ components
A choice of “technology stack” vendors
The infrastructure provider handles security and scalability. Think of it as the electricity grid. They don't decide what you do with it
It is pay for use, there is no lock-in to long term software licence contacts
It potentially provides a development and delivery vehicle for SME’s to all their products globally, generating UK tax income and innovation

We need ICT to enable:
Community empowerment: giving local councils and neighbourhoods more power to take decisions and shape their area
Opening up public services: enabling charities, social enterprises, private companies and employee-owned co-operatives to compete to offer people high quality services
Social action: encouraging and enabling people to play a more active part in society

What does success look like?
(Outward Facing)

Community Empowerment
Reducing the barriers that prevent SME & other organisations participation in Government ICT
Opening data and application interfaces to encourage businesses and social providers to serve new market opportunities

Opening up public sector provision
Opening the development of public services to the ideas and solutions of a diverse range of service providers
Opening up data and encouraging citizens and businesses to innovate new services and solution
Technology will empower communities by providing access to information and local knowledge which will inform local solutions
Greater transparency and simpler channels for accessing data and government procurement tender opportunities

Planning for the
Y Generation

Personal Data

Social action using social media
Digitally enabled citizen/govt engagement & collaboration (social media, e-petitions & etc)
Open and accessible forums
Increased efficiency
Greater transparency will build citizen trust
Policy developed in consultation with citizens

Technology is an enabler – not an end in itself

Thank You

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