13 Mar 2008

Swedes axe their central government portal

Anna Kelly from the Swedish Administrative Development Agency drops a bit of a bombshell. The generally enlightened Swedes closed their central government portal last week. Now there’s nothing there (and no, it’s not for sale).

Nick and I tried to ask Anna about the reasoning behind what could well be an eminently sensible decision. But she’s baffled and a bit hurt by it, and can’t see any rationale beyond misguided cost-cutting.

The UK of course is going in the opposite direction, axing all the other web sites centralising all content on DirectGov, which still lacks a decent search engine.

Posted by William Heath on 13/03/08 at 10:39am
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