Lifecycle Guidance material is part of the Victorian Government Gateway Initiative, which is a General Government-wide project to improve selection, management and investment delivery for the State of Victoria.
Added: 21 May 2007Page views: 4,540Rating: 0Votes: 0
Paper presented by Nicholas Gruen to the Gov 2.0 Summit, Washington DC, September 7-8, 2010. Nicholas discusses the concept of a new 'economics of abundance in which public goods are privately provided. He puts forward the point that Government 2.0 means nothing less than a new relationship between the public and private sector to achieve common goals.
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By Pia Rufino. FutureGov, 20 October 2010. "Public and private sector partnerships are needed to address the digital divide in Asia's emerging economies, according to government officials at the recent FutureGov Summit. During a panel discussion on bringing ICT to rural and remote regions, leading government officials from The Philippines, Canada and India said that alliances with the private sector would create more sustainable programmes, but that transparency was required in all project roll-outs..."
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by Ian Hawkesworth. OECD Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development. OECD Observer No 278 March 2010. "Governments may find publicprivate partnerships (PPPs) especially tempting in the aftermath of a financial crisis, but how can hasty choices be avoided?..."
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By Merrill Douglas. Government Technology, March 17, 2010. "If necessity is the mother of invention, it may also be the secret to the success of Palmetto 800 (PAL 800), South Carolina's statewide emergency communications radio system. Founded in the early 1990s, the 800 MHz trunked network has grown into one of the nation's largest statewide systems, providing interoperable communications for more than 450 state, county and municipal agencies..."
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by Thomas Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy with the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Office of Science and Technology Policy Web blog, June 17, 2009. "... The Open Government Initiative is interested in exploring how the government might partner with foundations, non-profits, philanthropists, and the private sector to support additional high-impact prizes, and to harness the power and reach of 'innovation marketplaces' to achieve important goals..."
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By Andrew Collier. eGov Monitor, 8 December, 2008. "... A shared services partnership [between BT and Mid Suffolk District Council and Suffolk County Council] has been set up which has led to improved standards of customer service delivery. It has been calculated that it will save the public purse at least £66 million over a decade. Jobs have also been preserved and back office systems simplified and improved..."
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by Bram Klievink and Marijn Janssen. European Journal of ePractice, 31 October 2008. "... In this paper we investigate dis- and re-intermediation strategies in the multi-channel management (MCM) structures of government organizations and find that disintermediation is not always the best option. Intermediaries – public or private – can be employed to improve customer-oriented service delivery..."
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Government Accountability Office, September 8, 2008. "In February 2008, GAO released a report entitled Highway Public-Private Partnerships: More Rigorous Up-Front Analysis Could Better Secure Potential Benefits and Protect the Public Interest (GAO-08-44) that reviewed: (1) the benefits, costs, and trade-offs of highway public-private partnerships; (2) how public officials have identified and acted to protect the public interest in these arrangements; and (3) the federal role in highway public-private partnerships and potential changes in this role. The enclosed statement discusses these issues..."
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Government Accountability Office, July 24, 2008. "The private sector is increasingly involved in financing and operating highway facilities under long-term concession agreements. In some cases, this involves new facilities; in other cases, firms operate and maintain an existing facility for a period of time in exchange for an up-front payment to the public sector and the right to collect tolls over the term of the agreement. In February 2008 GAO reported on (1) the benefits, costs, and trade-offs of highway public-private partnerships; (2) how public officials have identified and acted to protect the public interest in these arrangements; and (3) the federal role in highway public-private partnerships and potential changes in this role. The Senate Finance Committee asked GAO to testify on this report and to highlight its discussion of tax issues. GAO reviewed the experience of projects in the U.S. (including the Chicago Skyway and Indiana Toll Road agreements), Australia, Canada, and Spain..."
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OECD, June 17, 2008. "The book identifies possible good practices for the public sector to maximise the potential for PPP projects and to ensure that they are used appropriately to maximum general interest. These practices involve: affordability; value for money; fiscal rules and expenditure limits; risk sharing; the need for competition and transparency; regulatory issues; adequate institutional capacity; the public sector comparator; and the importance of political support..."
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By Glyn Evans and Helen O'Dea. eGov Monitor, 7 April 2008. "Service Birmingham, the joint venture company established by Birmingham City Council and Capita, has been in operation for two years this month. Its objective is to support the UK's largest transformation programme in Local Government so how does it do this and what have been the benefits to date? This piece highlights perspectives from both partners..."
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Department of Treasury and Finance. "The Partnerships Victoria policy, introduced in 2000, provides the framework for a whole-of-government approach to the provision of public infrastructure and related ancillary services through public-private partnerships. 16 Partnerships Victoria projects have been contracted worth around $4.5 billion in capital investment..."
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Kablenet, 12 April 2007. "A report on public private partnerships says they are not a simple solution to improving government assets. Public private partnerships (PPPs) are being hindered by unproven ICT systems and specification changes, which disregard time or budget implications, according to a survey of PPP specialists by financial market intelligence provider Standard & Poor's..."
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Kablenet, 27 June 2006. "The minister for public sector IT has emphasised the importance of bringing the voluntary sector into the delivery of public services. Pat McFadden, parliamentary secretary in the Cabinet Office, told GC News that voluntary organisations could play a significant role in implementing the Transformational Government strategy..."
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Kablenet, 26 June 2006. "Rotherham MBC has launched a new benefits service which is expected to deliver £250,000 in savings per year. The council said on 26 June 2006 that it will go live with its eBenefits system by the end of June..."
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Source: Northgate Information Solutions. eGov Monitor, 27 June, 2006. "Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, in partnership with RBT Connect Limited and Northgate Information Solutions, today launch a new commercial benefits service aimed at improving delivery to citizens and bringing efficiency savings to councils..."
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