Prime Minister Tony Blair
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Prime Minister Tony Blair, like most heads of state, deals on the highest of intellectual levels. This means that he cannot personally get down far enough into the details beforehand to determine if a policy decision and/or approach is viable. Hence he must rely on the wisdom of his advisors. While his recent sweeping statements concerning wishing to have affordable high-speed Internet access in every home in Britain and be the most eCommerce friendly nation by 2005, are certainly of a visionary nature, to the professional trained in this arena, they do lack a fundamental understanding of some of the obstacles involved that will hinder the best intentions with respect to implementation. Aside from the two major initiatives mentioned above (or perhaps this one is also part of his vision for the "eFuture" of the UK), PM Blair wishes to totally "wire" government services by 2002 (Wakefield, 2000, December). Information technology initiatives are notorious for incurring large cost and schedule overruns. Many never deliver the expectation presented at the beginning of the planning and/or implementation phase. In the United States, where experience with the Interenet, eBusiness/eCommerce, and the general arena of information technology (IT), leads that of the UK, in some arenas, projects are considered successful when the overruns are contained to within thirty percent or when users have to throw away only one-fourth of the result. This is reality. PM Blai
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ules for the technology being demonstrated are as follows:
Must be able to demonstrate that it can be of benefit during preliminary proceedings and during the main hearing of a case with a view to reducing the length of the hearing process.
Must be able to demonstrate that it can assist in the quality of presentation of documentation to the court in order to clarify the evidence that is being presented and thus help to reduce the length of the proceedings.
Must be able to demonstrate that it can reduce the amount of work involved in the preparation of the documentation and assist with the presentation of such documentation at the hearing thus reducing the associated costs.
Must be able to demonstrate that it can provide tools such as digital audio links to external (to the court) locations and provide virtual reality reconstructions and video conferencing capability/facility, for use during the hearings to provide a better level and quality of service to the legal profession, witnesses and court users with a view to avoiding unnecessary travel time and expense and provide more flexibility when setting hearing dates.
Must be able to demonstrate that it is able to consider the impact and benefits that technology can have on
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Approximate Word count = 2195
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page)
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