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£32k a Day For Birmingham Council Website

Posted by samzenpus on from the you're-doing-it-wrong dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Birmingham Wired have uncovered that Birmingham City Council spend on average £32,000 a day maintaining a council website that has cost the tax-payer over £48 million to date, while councils nationwide prepare to say goodbye to 26,000 jobs due to budget deficits. Capita, a London based outsourcing company, states on their website: 'To date we've invested £48.4m in a combination of staff training, network upgrades, server replacements, hardware and software — and we continue to drive efficiency through innovation.'"

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  1. Hmmmm.... by scottbomb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just change "Birmingham City Council" to "Federal government", pounds to dollars, and London to Washington, and it sounds awfully familiar on "this side of the pond".