Andrew Pinder

Andrew Pinder, CBE, lead the Office of the e-Envoy from 2000 to 2004, reporting directly to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

He held the post of Chairman of Becta (a government agency, funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families which oversees the e-strategy for Education and supports information and communications technology (ICT) and e-learning in schools and colleges) from January 2006 to January 2009.

He has held many executive posts in the public and private sector relating to IT.

Early life

Pinder was born in 1947. He was educated at the University of Liverpool from 1969-1972 where he received a BA in Economics and Geography.

e-Envoy

Pinder's most high profile position was as the e-Envoy between October 2000 and August 2004, when he was responsible directly to the Prime Minister for co-ordinating the development of the knowledge economy in the UK.[1]

In this role, he gave a speech at the CBI in November 2001.[2]

He oversaw the rushed implementation in 2001 of the Government Gateway, a project for putting all the government services on-line, which was built by Microsoft in just 15 weeks and initially locked out all browsers except Microsoft's own Internet Explorer. He defended this by claiming that the limitation applied only to the part "which allows citizens and businesses to enrol for services. [But] once enrolled, they can submit transactions from any operating system, since XML - the language used - is totally platform independent."[3]

The deal also involved Microsoft using UK government intellectual property to build products for other governments in order to recoup some of the costs of building the technology. The rate of return was to the tune of 22% of their gross sales of the intellectual property, which Pinder hoped would "give us quite a lot of money".[4] This hope was reiterated by the a minister for the Cabinet Office as late as January 2003.[5]

Pinder appeared before the Public Accounts Committee on 13 May 2002,[6] 12 June 2002 [6] and 3 May 2002 where Edward Leigh MP was "surprised by the woolly answers"[7]

On concluding the job, he pronounced his work a success.[8]

Other positions

Other previously held positions

References

  1. "Becta's board". Becta. Archived from the original on 6 December 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-20.
  2. "CBI seeks to restore credibility". BBC News. 4 November 2001. Retrieved 2006-11-20.
  3. Andrew Pinder (17 June 2001). "Government Gateway is not a 'Microsoft puppet'". The Observer.
  4. "Public Accounts Committee - Examination of Witnesses(Questions 80-99)". 12 June 2002.
  5. Douglas Alexander (16 January 2006). "E-services - Westminster Hall Debates". Hansard. Retrieved 2006-11-23.
  6. 1 2 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmpubacc/936/2061203.htm
  7. http://www.zdnet.com/article/e-envoy-disputes-800000-job-loss-quote/
  8. SA Mathiason (2 September 2004). "What a way to run the country". The Guardian.
  9. "Register of Board members' interests". Becta. January 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-17.
  10. 1 2 3 4 "Andrew Pinder CBE". United Utilities. Retrieved 2006-11-20.
  11. "Former UK e-Envoy Andrew Pinder Joins Entrust to Lead Government Initiatives" (Press release). Entrust. 30 October 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
  12. 1 2 3 "Management & board of directors". Archived from the original on 2006-11-17. Retrieved 2006-11-23.
  13. "Vertex appoints Andrew Pinder as Non-Executive Director" (Press release). 13 December 2004. Retrieved 2006-11-23.
  14. "about gov3 > consultants". Archived from the original on June 8, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-26.
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