I leave my position as Government CIO tomorrow, and this is my last post on InDevelopment. Over the last five years, it has become crystal clear that we are in a single, globally connected world - both through the widespread use of internet based technologies by individuals everywhere, and through the common issues faced by [...]
I spent a fascinating weekend at Foocamp – an annual gathering of those at the frontier of technology change and innovation. The current economic environment and the implications for New Zealand was the backdrop to a lot of the discussion, and there were heated debates on a number of controversial areas, including section 92A of the [...]
What are the implications for the government use of ICT arising from the financial turbulence that we have seen over recent weeks?
The most obvious consequences are in the government’s fiscal position; the release by Treasury of the PREFU (pre-election fiscal update) on October 6 provided a clear signal that the NZ government will be facing [...]
We have increasingly factored aspects of Web 2.0 into our daily lives - it is no longer an emerging phenomenon.
Podcasts or RSS feeds are innovative and new ways of transmitting/receiving information. They allow the individual New Zealander to create a personalised view of the world, and are an effective way of keeping in touch [...]
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My name is Laurence Millar, and I am the New Zealand Government CIO. This, my first post, is going to be some thoughts about what a transformed Government could look like.
Technology, by its very nature, has always been a disruptive force, changing the established way of doing things, whether it was the printing press, the [...]
