E-Government

Definition = "Refers to the use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) by governments as applied to the full range of government functions."
The E-Governement is the largest unit in Cabinet Office, the government is responsible for formulating information technology, delivering citizen-centred online services and finally promonting best practise accross government.
Government had 16 new objectives

To stimulate joined up business led IT strategies and policies
To support citizen-centred public service reform
To maximise the re-use and consistent application of common ICT components and systems across government
To promote and assist joined up identification and authentication across the public sector
To enable corporate service transformation
To be an IT ‘change agent’
To sponsor cost effective IT security
To increase IT-enabled change capability/capacity
To support ‘mission-critical’ projects
To build partnerships with IT suppliers
Stakeholder Management
Local Government Stakeholder Management
Improving confidence in Government IT
Common Infrastructure Development
Delivery of Directgov website [External website]
Delivery of Knowledge Network products

I went on the E-government Unit website and looked up there responisblities. These responisibilites are new and the priminister has set out 16 of them.
These responsiblities have been designed to encourage a ‘culture of security’ regarding information systems.