Central to the Government's electronic commerce agenda are the commitments made in relation to its own use of the electronic environment.
Further assessments are due to appear on a six-monthly basis.
DTI gave us an assessment of how the department expected to meet the targets set both in relation to procurement and making its services available electronically. DTI lies close to the heart of the electronic Government agenda. Proposals regarding the legal status of electronic signatures, and the promotion of digital signatures, on which we reported recently, underpin many of the services which the Government hopes to introduce in electronic format. The 2002 target is therefore not particularly challenging, although the 2008 target might prove a challenge to some departments . We are concerned that the electronic Government agenda is characterised by hyperbole, over-optimism about the capabilities of management to implement novel technological systems on a large scale, and repeated failures to learn from past mistakes.