Open Government

Research Note: Is Your Government Open or Closed? October 2011 18 For example, in the U.K., public servant chairperson Martha Lane Fox has expanded her role as UK Digital Champion advising how online public services delivery can help to provide better, and more efficient services as well as getting more people online. She was invited to sit on the Cabinet Office's Efficiency and Reform Board in 2010 where she promotes more open, agile and cheaper digital technologies to deliver simpler and more effective digital services to users, particularly to disadvantaged groups who are some of the heaviest users of government services. Ms. Lane Fox makes "bridging the digital divide" her key priority.