Sarah just sent me this link about the UK Government moving to close hundreds of government websites. For users and taxpayers in the UK, this should be a great step forward and shows a lot of bravery.
Will it help to make the sites more useable and accesible if there are only a handful to update and maintain? Or will they turn into horrible bureaucratic beasts that no one can tame nor find any useful information on? Advantages would also include large monetary savings, but that may be at the cost of speedily updated information. I see in the comments on that article someone has already made reference to increased government control of information in the communist sense…
Given that NZ followed the UK in producing a set of web guidelines, I wonder if we’ll follow this approach as well.
