UK Election: PSI features in Labour manifesto!
The political parties in the UK have started to publish their manifestos for the UK parliamentary elections that will take place on the 6th May 2010.
The Labour Party has published their manifesto titled: A future fair for all.
The states on page:
“Public services in the digital age
Citizens expect their public services to be transparent, interactive and easily accessible. We will open up government, embedding access to information and data into the very fabric of public services. Citizens should be able to compare local services, demand improvements, choose between providers, and hold government to account.
We have led the world with the creation of data.gov.uk, putting over 3,000 government datasets online. Entrepreneurs and developers have used these datasets to unleash social innovation, creating applications and websites for citizens from local crime maps to new guides to help find good care homes or GPs. We will now publish a Domesday Book of all non-personal datasets held by government and its agencies, with a default assumption that these will be made public. We will explore how to give citizens direct access to the data held on them by public agencies, so that people can use and control their own personal data in their interaction with service providers and the wider community.
Opening up government – central and local – in this way offers huge potential for Britain. We can use new technologies to give people a say on policymaking; enable citizens to carry out more of their dealings with government online; and save money for taxpayers as we switch services over to digital-only delivery.
Digital government also demands digital inclusion. So we will build on our network of UK Online centres and public libraries to spread free internet access points within the community, and develop new incentives for users to switch to online services.”
We are becoming the worlds leader!
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