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Council Meeting

The "Information Management Strategy Paper" was discussed on April 1st 2003 at 7 p.m. at the Civic Offices, Central Milton Keynes (Main Council Chamber).

The Council have placed the discussion document and appendices on their web site http://cmis.milton-keynes.gov.uk

You may want to try using the Council's CMIS system "properly". Look for "Meeting : Cabinet - 01/04/2003"

Also try http://cmis.milton-keynes.gov.uk/cmis/Content/meeting.asp?ID=1809

Click on reports, then item 17.

Or you may want to try the links below.

Key Document

Appendix 1, 2, 4 is the document most relevant to our campaign.

The Documents

Council’s Information Management Strategy Document

The report:

  • briefly describes the Council’s I.M Strategy (also referring to the IEG2 Statement) and sets out the expenditure made to date and the progress achieved over the last year. The report highlights the highly satisfactory performance against the key E-government indicator BVPI 157 for which the Council is now in the top quartile of local authority performance in this area,
  • proposes new system developments and new processes to aid our approach to information management and to develop the strategy,
  • proposes adjustments of the expenditure previously planned for some projects,
  • maps the compatibility of Council I.M Strategy projects against the project proposals from HBS and highlights some areas requiring to be addressed with HBS, (details including a financial analysis to be submitted as part of a separate PPP report)
  • notes success in securing funding contributions towards MKC e-government developments and outlines further initiatives and bids for external funding,
  • provides a summary of the development work undertaken by the I.T Service in 2002/03 and outlines the development plans for the next 3 years commencing 2003/04, and
  • sets out a statement from SEEDA concerning planned developments in the field of broadband demand aggregation and requests Council support for this initiative.
 

Appendix 1, 2, 4

Wireless Broadband Services and Broadband Demand Aggregation in the Milton Keynes Area

These project proposals have been created by the Milton Keynes Council I.T. Service (Head of I.T. Steven Jewell) to foster the introduction of wireless based broadband services within the MK area.

 

Appendix 5

BVPI 157 Latest Project Developments

"Since we went live with the new look and feel and navigation in December of last year we have been continuously improving the Milton Keynes web site with wider coverage and more information on some pages. We thought you might like to look for your self to see how good the site looks overall and in particular look at some of the new additions."
 
APPENDIX 6

IEG PARTNERSHIP PROJECT(S)

Name of Partnership:
(1) The Portal Partners (MKC, NCC, Beds CC)
(2) MKC and MK PCT and MK General Hospital
 
APPENDIX 7

Milton Keynes Health and Social Services Joint Network Proposal.

Project Objectives:

  • To introduce infrastructure to link the Milton Keynes Health and Council networks, following the model of similar arrangements between Health and Social Services in other parts of the country.
  • To enable health and social work staff to access common systems as appropriate and support common working methods.
  • To provide a secure environment to aid the secure exchange of information between MKC Social Care staff and PCT staff via e-mail encryption facilities in the future.
 

Appendix 8

LEA ICT Strategy Update
 
Appendix 9

Outline of A New Broadband Network Development Initiative Being Supported By the Government – and Seeking MKC Support

The demand aggregation agenda has been elevated in importance and urgency and a lead government department has been identified to act as the anchor for the process. The importance of demand aggregation is that it creates economies of scale, leading to a reduction in the public sector communications bill and, more importantly, creates opportunities to increase the infrastructure available for local backhaul1 and therefore reduce the cost of such backhaul to local enterprises and community broadband organisations.
 
Appendix 10

Proposal for Electronic Document Management in Milton Keynes Council
 
Appendix 11

Proposal for Mobile (Real Time) Data Access in Milton Keynes Council
 

Links

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