The costs of e-government is set to outweigh the financial savings it provides over the next decade, according to new research from Kable. The E-government cost savings report forecasts that savings from placing central and local government services online are likely to be around £289m for the 2005-06 financial year by the end of which the Government wants all services online against a spend of £1.2bn in that year alone
That's according to KableNet's e-Government cost savings report, the intro to which gives some frightening numbers (its a paid for report).