Confusion about parameters and scope threatens ID card success
Computer Weekly reports the warnings given by the British Computer Society in written and oral evidence to the Home Affairs Committee.
BCS external relations director, Mike Rodd said:
“There is a lack of common understanding of what the system is for and what it is trying to achieve. If you do not know exactly what the card is for, you cannot design the system.”
Rodd added, “The government’s own advisory body, the Office of Government Commerce and the National Audit Office have identified the top cause of project failure as being the lack of a clear link between a project and the organisation’s key strategic priorities.
The fact that the government can’t make its mind up precisely what ID cards and the NIR are for means that the scheme is almost bound to become another massive IT fiasco.
