The Central Digital and Data Office (CDDO) has published the new Digital Readiness Check for government organisations.
It said the checklist, which involves a set of key principles and questions, is designed to ensure that new and existing policy can be implemented effectively through digital delivery channels.
It provides an element of the CCDO’s Digital Assessment Framework, published last November to help government departments benchmark their management of digital technology and data.
The questions are divided into four categories to: ensure clear, simple and unambiguous rules; assume digital delivery by default; plan for interoperability, sharing and re-use of data; and use existing, common infrastructure.
Widespread relevance
A CDDO blogpost said the questions are quite detailed and might not all be relevant to every situation, but pointed out that nearly everything done in government now involves digital and data at some point.
It added that the check can be used in collaborative working between policy makers and digital specialists.
“When policy, operational and digital colleagues work together in multidisciplinary teams from an early stage in the process, we achieve great results that deliver objectives in ways that are effective, efficient and user focused,” it said.
CDDO said it is working with other government bodies to test the principles and highlight examples of good practice in collaborative working.
