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Article: The buck stops here. (Strategic Play).(UK Online for Business )
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- New Media Age
- Article date:
- July 17, 2003
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As the focus of government plans to e-enable UK business, UK Online for Business is under great pressure and faces critics who don't think it's up to the task.
UK Online for Business is one of the Government's key weapons for getting UK businesses wired up.
Tony Blair famously signalled his ambition to get Britain online as a key goal and selling point of his government. The rhetoric was backed up in 2000 when the Information Society Initiative was replaced by UK Online. The organisation is made up of three pillars and has three audiences: citizens, government and business. From the outset, business was viewed as the key audience for the Government ...