Northern Ireland - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment activities in Northern Ireland.
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eGovernment - Northern Ireland - Archive
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Archived articles and resources about egovernment activities in Northern Ireland.
- Geographic Information Strategy for Northern Ireland
- "The aim of the strategy is that by 2019 Northern Ireland will be a spatially enabled society in which government use GI (geographic information) as a decision making tool. Businesses will use GI to increase efficiency and the public will be actively using GI on a daily basis...
The vision of the 2009–19 NI GI Strategy is: We will improve services and thereby develop the economy, the environment, and the society of Northern Ireland by placing information about location at everyone's fingertips and supporting the development of sufficient skills and knowledge to exploit this information..."
- Northern Ireland plans £50m boost for online services
- Government wants strategic partnership to move contact services to the web, phone or SMS over next four years. Guardian Government Computing - Guardian Professional, Monday 11 July 2011. "Northern Ireland's Department of Finance and Personnel has advertised for a contract to expand NI Direct, the government's multi-channel service delivery programme.
The deal will aim to help departments move their current contact services to cheaper channels, such as the web, telephone or SMS text services..."
- Northern Ireland plans progress for NI Direct
- Department of Finance and Personnel calls for suppliers to provide input into further development of service, by Mark Say. Guardian Professional, Thursday 7 April 2011. "Northern Ireland's Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP) has called on the private sector for ideas on how it can further develop NI Direct, its central website and telephone service for public services in the region..."
- Rural Northern Ireland gets broadband
- PublicService.co.uk, Monday, September 6, 2010. "High speed broadband technology providers are investing in Northern Ireland's rural areas as a result of assistance from a co-financed European initiative, enterprise minister Arlene Foster has announced..."
- NI government websites cost millions
- PublicService.co.uk, Friday, September 3, 2010. "Northern Ireland government departments spent £5.5m on their websites over the past three years it has emerged..."
- NI claims Microsoft deal will save £2m
- The Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) has said that an agreement with Microsoft will save it about £2m over the next three years. Kable, Wednesday 23 December 2009.
- The Performance of the Planning Service - Report - in pdf format (1358kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland, 25 November 2009. "A successful pilot for streamlined Council consultation has reduced the average processing time for minor planning applications and has been extended to all Councils. A flagship IT project - the electronic Planning Information for Citizens (e-PIC) system - is significantly behind schedule and has not yet been fully delivered..."
- The Performance of Northern Ireland's Planning Service
- Northern Ireland Audit Office, Press Release, 25 November 2009. "A report published today by Mr Kieran Donnelly, the Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland, examines the performance of the Northern Ireland Planning Service, an Agency within the Department of the Environment. In 2008-09, the Agency’s gross expenditure was £42 million, with income of £17.7 million, mostly from planning fees..."
- NIAO points to planning service delays
- The Northern Ireland Audit Office has highlighted failings in the implementation of an electronic planning information system. Kable, Wednesday 25 November 2009. "It has made the criticisms as part of its report on The Performance of Northern Ireland's Planning Service, published on 25 November..."
- NI opens access to data
- Northern Ireland's finance department is publishing sets of non-personal data online with the aim of improving public access, Kable, Monday 17 August 2009. "OpenDataNI, a pilot scheme, has opened with data on the locations of health and social care providers, the rotas for out of hours pharmacies, the amount of waste produced by NI's 26 district councils and various data on pupils at each of its nursery schools..."
- NI courts launch £60m ICT tender
- The Northern Ireland Court Service is looking for a supplier to provide a fully managed ICT and telecommunications service. Kable, Friday 31 July 2009. "... The contract will involve providing the service's 22 courthouses and four administrative sites with telecommunications services, ICT infrastructure, replacement hardware, hosting, secure mobile working, data and voice network services and disaster recovery..."
- NIDirect: The official government website for Northern Ireland citizens
- NIDirect brings together information from government departments and agencies, written in language that is easy to understand. Its aims is for the visitor not to need to know the workings of government to find what they are searching for. They are encouraging feedback from visitors to improve their online service.
- NI Executive unveils new website
- A new website has been set up for public services in Northern Ireland. Kable, Tuesday 12 May 2009. "Named nidirect, the site includes 16 themes under headings such as Motoring, Property and Housing, Employment and Money, Tax and Benefits. It also provides for transactions such as booking an MOT, ordering birth, death and marriage certificates, buying or renewing a TV licence, and finding local schools and nurseries..."
- NI puts public records on the web
- Kablenet, 3 December 2008. "Northern Ireland's public records office is making thousands of records available online from January 2009. The Electronic Catalogue for Northern Ireland (eCATNI) has converted some 170,000 items from its catalogues into electronic format so that members of the public can research family and local history over the internet..."
- NI flood map goes online
- Kablenet, 5 November 2008. "Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has placed its Strategic Flood Map on the Rivers Agency website. The map shows areas that could be affected by flooding from rivers or the sea, and provides information on the location of the agency's flood defence schemes and measures in place to reduce risk..."
This category last updated: 13 July 2011