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Re: hyndburn life website
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Originally Posted by g jones
Consultants were used (at at cost of £300k approx) to develop the scheme. Not sure who did the code. The Council took on responsibilty for site maintenance and content. In fact the member of staff employed as part of the bid worked in the Councils IT dept but resigned after 12 months.
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If you look at THIS page of the Clicks and Links website I think you'll get a clue. It's somewhat ironic that that page hasn't been updated for a year or three because it still describes Hyndburnlife as something which is due to "go live later this year" - er what year would that be then?
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Originally Posted by g jones
There are e-government targets but this is not part of them. It was designed to be a tool to attract new businesses to Hyndburn (hence the Ch of Comm connection). Sadly, it has not attracted a single business interest yet.
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And they laughed when we were sceptical.  Is it any wonder that we had our doubts about all the new businesss the Panopticon was supposed to be bringing if we'd ever got one of those too?
Last edited by WillowTheWhisp; 02-11-2006 at 06:53.
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