Digital transformation is impacting the UK government, and the iPad Air 2’s being handed out to 650 MPs after the next election are just the thin end of the digital wedge. Government, like every other part of life, is subject to disruption.

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The UK initiative is part of a root and branch attempt to embrace digital technologies in government, which is striving to exploit the efficiency and productivity gains and cost-savings it recognizes in enterprise technology deployment.

The UK government already saves $4.5 million each year in using 209 iPads already in use by MPs in Parliament to replace paper. Earlier this year new laws kicked in which allow local councils to run entirely paperless committee meetings.

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