Overview[]
the U.K. Government.direct programme is part of the wider Information Society Initiative (ISI) run by the Cabinet Office's Central IT Unit (CITU).
Government.direct was initiated as a Green Paper in November 1996, followed by a consultation phase with a Government "response" in March 1997. A principal output of government.direct was a series of pilot projects to demonstrate the underlying technologies, investigate public and business response and stimulate experimentation in new uses of ICT for the delivery of services.