Abstract
The public sector is at a crossroads - needing to behave more like a co-ordinated enterprise than a collection of independent and unconnected agencies. This new connected government requires an increased focus on horizontal ICT infrastructure and services to support and enable interoperability across agencies.
Networks are increasingly being recognised as being at the heart of connected government and telcos provide the life blood of the networks. Policy executives and CIOs should reconsider the role telcos and next-generation networks play in acting as catalysts and platforms for connected government.
Table of Contents
Ovum view
- Public sector ICT is at a crossroads
- Connected government
- Connected ICT
- The ‘horizontalisation' of ICT
- Federal government ICT procurement
- Networks are naturally horizontal
- Networks are a sensible starting point for the pursuit of connected ICT
Public sector ICT - at a crossroads
- ICT in the public sector
- Connected government
- From the vertical to the horizontal
- Connected ICT
- ICT at a crossroads
Networks at the heart of connected government
The ‘horizontalisation' of ICT
Table of figures:
- Table 1. Examples of transformative potential
- Figure 1. An idealised ‘to be' government ICT landscape
- Figure 2. The horizontalisation of the ICT ‘stack'
- Figure 3. Top vendors by value of contracts won in the federal government
- Figure 4. The telco as connector
