Just how committed are our councillors to electronic government?

In the public interest we at FreeCorby decided to mail all our councillors
(date emails sent 25th February 2003)
using their free Corby Borough Council email address.

The email address format was firstname.lastname@corby.gov.uk
(firstname and lastname as shown on CBC website)

The email simply informed our representatives that various Audit Commission Reports
were available to download from our website

(a story we have heard seems  to indicate they have problems gaining access to these reports through the council)

We make no comment as to the reasons why they
 don't/won't/can't use this free facility.

Statistics:


12 access denied
4 user not found

TOTAL 16

out of 29 councillors

only 13 appear to have got through

if we receive any replies we'll let you know!
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Cllr Mark Pengelly	Dated 26th February 2003 - within 1 day ............................In relation to emails I was not aware I was on a corby.gov.uk one until last week. I found out by chance.  I am aware other councillors are in the same position. I believed you could only access corby.gov.uk from the council computer in the members room and because I want to keep in constant communication with constituents I set my own email up. It was by mistake I found it could be diverted to my home email account and the fact that they can be diverted  is very useful. With there only being one computer for backbenchers in the members room, for many working councillors it would be a nightmare waiting around at certain times a day to open emails and maybe that is why some did not ask for the email address. Some members may not have computers. I hope this info helps a little bit.
FreeCorby	Thanks for the quick reply Cllr - one possible explanation.................

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