Public Sector Users

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The secure site for subscribers and public sector visitors was launched May 2003. The Government Online Secure Database is much more comprehensive and detailed than the Open database provided for the general public. The database contains significantly more information on key decision-makers in local, regional and central government, with telephone, fax and e-mail facilities wherever possible. If you are a member of the public sector and would like to have access to the Secure Database please send an e-mail to data@government-online.net with your name and a verifiable e-mail address and a username and password will be sent to you. The service is free to public sector users.

Since its inception on 1 May 2001, Government Online (www.government-online.net) has become one of the most popular public sector-based websites in the UK. It is visited regularly by members of the public sector at all levels, and is often used as a reference point by general members of the public to find information relating to areas of concern. In providing the Open database free of charge we are aiming to help the general public navigate through the hundreds of public sector websites that exist to find the information or the service that is right for them. If your organisation would like to update its profile on either the Open or Secure database please send an e-mail to data@government-online.net and the new information will be uploaded within 5 days.

Joined-up government is a crucial policy of modern governance, and for that reason successful communication between different organisations and individuals in the public sector is vital for delivering efficient services. The Secure Database is being created to create a vast electronic map of the public sector and to make this information available to decision makers who are part of government and to suppliers who work regularly with government. It is inevitable, given the sheer size of the UK public sector that not all relevant information is freely or easily accessible; however, R&D Information Services Limited (the company that runs Government Online) has a clear strategy for managing the vast quantities of information involved, and with a new data processing model should be able to not only locate information useful to members of the public sector and those with a professional interest in it, but to maintain and update that information regularly.

Members of the public sector are free to decide what information they would like to make available, and what information it might be useful to have listed in a central point of reference.

There are no obligations on public sector subscribers to use the site; we hope the quality of the information displayed will prove its value, and its utility for interagency communication will be quickly seen.

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