Appendix Two Summary of other government ICT strategies

Summary of other government ICT strategies
	UK	United States of America	Australia	Netherlands	Denmark
Government ICT Strategy
Date published	March 2011	December 2010	April 20111	November 20112	August 2011
Time period	2 years	18 months	5 years	4 years	5 years
Scope	Central	Central	Central	Central	Whole of
	government	government3	government3	government3	government
Implementation
Central ICT policy	√	√	√	√	√
Devolved delivery	√	√	√	√	√
Cross-government CIO	√	√	√	√
Type of business change
Reducing waste and project failure	√			√
Common ICT infrastructure	√	√		√
Using ICT to enable and deliver change	√		√		√
Delivery Areas
1 ICT asset and services register	√			√	√
2 Open Source	√	√	√		√
3 Procurement	√	√	√	√	√
4 Agile delivery methods	√	√
5 Capability	√	√	√	√	√
6 Open data standards	√		√		√
7 Data centre consolidation	√	√	√	√
8 Public Services Network	√
9 Desktop and devices	√			√
10 Cloud computing	√	√	√	√	√
11 Reference architecture	√			√	√
12 Open technical standards	√				√
13 Information Strategy	√	√	√	√	√
14 Greening ICT	√	√
15 Cyber security risk management	√	√		√
16 Channel Shift	√	√	√		√
17 Application Programming Interfaces	√
18 Online government consultations	√		√
19 Internet and social media	√		√

NOTES

1 This was a draft version for consultation.

2 We received a briefing on the draft.

3 The strategies cover national government and therefore equate to our own central government structure.

Source: The ICT Strategies of USA, Australia, Netherlands and Denmark and National Audit Office fieldwork interviews

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