Ever-conscious of the need to compete in the e-commerce arena, Jersey's government has embarked on an ambitious IT modernisation project and has selected Microsoft's .Net blueprint as its platform.
Also working on the project, which is expected to cost £300,000
to £500,000 for the initial stages, is Microsoft partner
ICL, whose business manager John Davies commented: 'The goal of
the project is to establish electronic government for the island.
They want to use .Net to build that platform. Then the goal is
to expand it much further than the government, first to members
of the public and businesses, and then extending across Europe.
When people think of Jersey, they think of a small island, but
with about £118bn in deposits [in the island's banks], it
is really a very large enterprise. The island is only 116 sq km
in size, but there are 25 government locations, including prisons,
airports and courts.'
Davies said that about 100 users are up and running in a pilot project that started last week, and the rollout is scheduled to extend to all other employees on 1 April. The project is led by Peter Griffiths, who has a three-year contract to devise an IT strategy for the government. He said: 'We're trying to make the whole process of government more efficient. So I wrote a strategy for e-government that is driving this process.'
Jersey made a decision some years ago to make the island a Microsoft-only IT environment. Mr Griffiths said: 'Government rarely takes the lead in these kinds of things. But we've got Microsoft and ICL as our partners, and I'm pretty sure that they are not going to let us down. We actually have people from the Microsoft factory floor here, making sure that it all works.'
Jersey hopes to use other Microsoft products to start extending government services to businesses and its 90,000 citizens next year.
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