In Development

I have two things to talk about in this blog post.

1. You’ve been waiting a long time  since I first presented about government use of SMS , and now finally, I am very excited to be able to provide you with An Introduction to Government Use of SMS.  You can read it in full at the e-initiatives wiki (viewable only to those working from an NZ government IP), and add your own case studies (please), or you can download a printable version of the Introduction (PDF 192 KB). You can also read it in a slightly different and abbreviated form on the webstandards website.

I hope that as more agencies start to use SMS, they’ll share their experiences - both good and bad. Remember that if you’re spending public money and you mess up, if you share that lesson far and wide, you’re going to spread the cost of that failure too. As you’ll see in the next paragraph (spoiler alert!) I won’t be at the Commission to talk to you about SMS anymore, but my colleague Matt Lane will be, so if you have any questions, please email him. And/or also get in contact with Victoria University, who have a project named Effective Electronic Records Management in the 21st Century - the project is led by Professor Miriam Lips with research activities by Anita Rapson and Tony Hooper and you can email Anita on Anita.Rapson@vuw.ac.nz

2. As I mentioned above, from June 30 I will no longer be working at the Commission because my role has been disestablished. I would like to thank you all for reading and supporting this blog, which was the first big project that I undertook here at the SSC. I’d also like to thank all the contributors, especially Matt for his neverending enthusiasm, Richard Best for his amazing work on the contributor guidelines and sticky legal stuff, and the much-missed Laurence Millar for championing the project. I think it is vitally important that government opens up communication channels like this, and I hope that work will continue. I know that the blog is in safe hands with Matt in charge. I’d also like to thank the internet community in general for all the amazing feedback I got after my GOVIS presentation ‘Same Time, Different Channel’ which was essentially a summing up of everything I’ve done in my time at the SSC- it means an awful lot for me to be able to leave on such a high note. And of course, I believe in public/government participation, and the existence of the internet means I’m not really ever going to go away. See you at the next e-govt barcamp, no doubt…

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