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The totally insane expenditure on Wales Tourism’s VisitWales (£2-4million) website is dwarfed by the mind-boggling £105 million expenditure on the UK BusinessLink website – see this article by BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones and read some of the comments.
This is why the whole culture of public sector expenditure and procurement on ICT and IT projects has to change.
The Assembly government’s web-site is a pure disgrace. And the abolition of the subject committees, with ministers questioned every month, means we have less idea than ever of what was going on, meaning the government can get away with murder.
In the last Cambria, I reported a civil servant attached to the Assembly who complained about the website’s state, wondered whether it had been produced in that format on purpose to keep information hidden; and then concluded that the quickest way to find facts was to Google – thereby producing unnecessary income for an American commercial company.
At the time I wrote those words, I was engaged on a long search for the Assembly’s original railway policy, dating from 1999 – listing the standard of services that should be provided in Wales.
On the original website, it could easily be found on the left of the transport page.
But now no more, after a “modernisation” of the site. Continue reading »
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