Welcome by Chris Ford, Director of IT Nottingham City Council: Digital Britain and the vision for Nottingham. CBN NextGen Roadshow Nottingham - 24 March 2009

1. Nottinghamshire Public Service
Network (NPSN)
Chris Ford

2. The issues
• Strategic drivers for Public services
• Improved customer service and responsiveness
• Integrated delivery of services horizontally, geographically and
through the use of ICT
• The need for better value for money
• How to make ICT services more effective and future
proof
• Affordability of future support / demand

3. Present Situation
• Separate Networks – procured and managed by each body
• Duplication of bandwidth and effort
• Lack of real resilience
• Working in shared buildings through LIFT, BSF and other
transformation programmes
• Opportunities to share data and applications very limited and
bespoke

5. Multiple Network Locations

6. Future Demands
• Data
• Speed
• Resilience
• Flexibility
• Security
• Partnership working
• New ways of working

7. NPSN - The solution?
• The largest networks County and City Council,
the Police and the NHS
• All within the similar geographic boundary
• Similar operational and security requirements
for their networks
• Many shared buildings
• Not Unique – Hants, Lincs

8. The Aim
An environment whereby ICT network
infrastructure (all land and mobile data
and voice services) can be developed to
the same standards and used for the
common good of the public sector and
their users.

9. The Developing Position
• Actively move towards one network for the
Public Services in the County
• Transition from the discrete Networks to
one Network
• Long-term plan will have to be developed
• Detailed evaluation needed at each stage
• Initially City and County Councils, NHS and
Police
• Opportunity for District Councils, other
Public sector bodies and the 3rd Sector

10. Inception Plan
• Case to be made to Chief Executives/Officers
• Position to be agreed in principal
• Initial work to create the NPSN environment
including:-
– agreement to collaborate and share intellectual
property, specialist knowledge and the network asset
– governance structures to provide autonomy within a
framework of agreed standards
– network standards and protocols as part of a strict
change authorisation process
• Review models for provision

11. Parallel Action Plans
• Joint long-term network development plans (5 Years)
– NPSN included in capital programmes
– Management and procurement strategy for
development of the network.
• Joint short-term opportunities
– Increased resilience, new connections, efficiencies in
operation
– Convergence and integration
– Reduced cost from economies of scale and
standardisation
Pro-active programme management

12. Questions?
Chris Ford