At Sheringham town community newspaper. North Norfolk England UK.

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Natasha
Congratulations
on being voted
Carnival Queen 2003
from
All at the Paper

Well done
to all the cast in Fiddler on the Roof
Wonderful Show
Can't wait for the next one.

NNDC'S NEW E-GOVERNMENT OFFICER

North Norfolk District Council has appointed Tina Wegg to be its e-Government Officer, helping to drive forward the Council's efforts to improve access to local services using new technologies. Tina, 36, joins NNDC after four years with Norfolk County Council's Education Department, where she worked to advance the County Council's own e-Government agenda, primarily in schools. Tina's appointment allows NNDC to move further toward the Government's 2005 e-Government target (by which time all council services must be made accessible by electronic means, if they can be), and build on the success of its recent Reach Out project. The groundbreaking Ł440,000 Reach Out project, which was named one of the best e-Government initiatives in the country in the 2003 Consilium e-Government Innovation Awards, was devised to help overcome the problems of access to services encountered by rural communities. It saw the creation of a new District website, www.northnorfolk.org, which allows people to carry out a number of transactions with their District Council, and which also gives local town and parish councils and community and voluntary groups the option of having mini-websites. The project also included the creation of public internet access points in a few of the District's more remote locations, in places like a pub and a doctor's surgery,

to allow the public to access services online - whether they are NNDC's or any other agency's.

Tina said she is keen to help build on the work already done at NNDC, and stressed that e-government is not only about the use of the internet.

"It's about providing choices," she said, "not replacing traditional forms of contact.

New communication technologies can make it easier for people to do business with their local councils, and other agencies and community organisations - and they can improve the service people receive. The challenge is to set up genuinely useful systems that meet the public's needs, and that they are comfortable with."
To contact Tina, call (01263) 516242 or
email twegg@north-norfolk.gov.uk

RADIO NORFOLK AT THE CROWN CAR PARK

Gary Standley of Radio Norfolk came to The Crown for his lunchtime show on 30th May. There he spoke to many local people including Peter Taylor and Natasha McColl (Sheringham Carnival Queen), Martyn Jackson spoke about the Lifeboats and a tasting competition was also run using Martyn's Ice-cream! It was nice to see Ann and David Webster from the RNLI Charity Shop getting recognition for the work they do and Glyn West was on hand to sing us a song. Debbie from the Little Theatre was able to tell the listeners about the excellent upcoming Summer Theatre.