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 [...]
Category Archives: Editorial
A call to action
January 21, 2009 – 1:57 pm
Watching President Obama being sworn in this morning on TV had a feel of watching history being made. Even from a distance, it’s hard not to feel a sense of renewal, hope, and a sombre but confident resilience to face the challenges ahead.
Those challenges are of course very real. Even as the President was being [...]
Financial Turbulence and government ICT
October 20, 2008 – 10:40 pm
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 [...]
What does Web 2.0 mean for government?
July 24, 2008 – 10:34 pm
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 [...]
Seeing yourself on screen
April 16, 2008 – 2:02 pm
Last week, I took part in some user-testing for the upcoming NZ On Screen website - “a showcase of moving image and sound content created in New Zealand or by New Zealanders for local and international audiences”. What this meant is that I sat with two people from the project, and they watched me as [...]
And we’re off
March 25, 2008 – 9:28 am
With sites like wordpress.com, anyone can set up a blog. Five minutes after deciding to do it, you can be sharing your every thought at the internet at large. But just because the technology is there which enables you to do so, that doesn’t mean that you should rush in. Especially not if you’re going [...]
Something about something
March 19, 2008 – 12:43 pm
G’day and kia ora, my name is Matt Lane and my job tite here at the SSC is “Online Collaboration Specialist”. My responsibilities include:
examining new collaborative web technologies and trends (like wikis, blogs, etc.),
trying to keep up with who are using them (primarily New Zealand Government agencies), and
to share these experiences and knowledge with those who are [...]
Why are we doing this?
March 12, 2008 – 11:00 am
We’re constantly evolving the exact answer to “Why is the SSC blogging?” (because apparently “Because!” isn’t a good enough answer), so I thought a good way to get a feel for what blogging can achieve would be to borrow statement of purposes from other blogs. A site I’ve started reading lately is Signposts - Te [...]
Announcing the State Services Blog – In Development
March 12, 2008 – 9:04 am
We are pleased to announce that the State Services Commission is now blogging.
We’re aiming to build thought leadership around significant work programmes, including Authentication, Strategy and Policy and Web Standards, as well as providing a best practice example of how to effectively manage social media as part of public sector communications.
Other agencies ask us for [...]
Six months on, how are we doing?
In the 6 months that SSC has been trialling this blog, we have received thoughtful, intelligent and considered comments from the blogosphere - and we would like to thank you for that. Not one comment has had to be deleted because it breached the comment policy. As mentioned at the outset, the blog would be assessed [...]