It’s fair to say that the Public Services Network (PSN) has been a long time coming. It hasn’t received the air time that G-Cloud has, for example, but it has nonetheless moved on significantly in the last six months.

 

As research we have conducted recently reveals, we’ve moved beyond simply talking about PSN – reaching a point where general understanding of the benefits it promises are such that it is now seen as central to public sector IT strategies.

 

My firm, for instance, recently organised a roundtable discussion in conjunction with Alun Michael MP at the House of Commons, to discuss how we could bring relatively technical, but nonetheless important, issues around PSN into mainstream parliamentary debate.

 

We were joined by representatives from local, central and devolved government, including Kent County Council, the Welsh Assembly and the Cabinet Office, all of whom have been deeply involved in the …