On 3 June the Office of the e-Envoy metamorphosed into the e-Government Unit of the Cabinet Office (with some functions transferred to the Treasury Office of Government Commerce) in preparation for Ian Watmore taking up the headship of the unit in September. Andrew Pinder, the former e-Envoy, exited with the job done:
“96% of the population know of a place they can get access to the internet … survey after survey shows that the UK has one of the best environments in the world for e-commerce [and as] for the third target, to make all government services available electronically by the end of 2005, we’re well on the way.”
After such achievement it will be embarrasing for the successor unit to be told that their home page sports the title … you guessed, “Homepage”!
