On the 27th of May, the State Services Commission will host a workshop (at Archives New Zealand):
May 27, 2008 11–1pm – Navigating the social media landscape– at Archives New Zealand, 10 Mulgrave Street, Wellington
A workshop for people in the New Zealand public sector, who are seeking to build a basic understanding of:
-social media and social […]
Category Archives: Participation
Navigating the social media landscape
May 6, 2008 – 5:51 pm
Participate in the Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 online discussion
April 17, 2008 – 3:42 pm
This is a guest post from Zara Lynch of the Ministry of Economic Development, as the Digital Strategy aligns closely with our own work.
Hi there, Zara here from the Digital Development Team at the Ministry of Economic Development.
The Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 was released for public comment on Monday 14 April. It is a […]
igovt public consultation
April 17, 2008 – 2:20 pm
There were so many insights from attending focus groups during the igovt public consultation that it’s hard to pick just one. Certainly, one that made a lasting impression was a lady with a disability who spoke emotively about how the service would make a huge positive difference for her in getting services from government. For […]
Who polices the police wiki?
April 9, 2008 – 3:42 pm
As part of my work here at the State Services Commission, I’m involved with a Participation Community of Practice, a group of practitioners with an interest in public participation online (and off) drawn from government agencies, local government, private firms, academia, civil society organisations and international practitioners. It was this group that contributed to our […]
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 […]
Some great thinking on collaborative governance
March 20, 2008 – 5:34 pm
The internet is a deep and rich repository of information. That’s the thought that surfaced when I came across the work of Professor Beth Simone Noveck today.
Among other things, Professor Noveck is a Professor of Law at New York Law School, with particular expertise in the impact of technology on legal and political institutions. She […]
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 […]
Staff Contribution Guidelines for In Development, Creative Commons style
March 13, 2008 – 10:15 am
One of the issues raised during the development of this blog was whether to have Staff Contribution Guidelines. Without the need for any protracted discussion, we decided that having such Guidelines in place prior to launch was desirable. Accordingly, draft Guidelines were prepared by the SSC legal team with reference to:
the Standards of Integrity and […]
How did you get here?
March 12, 2008 – 12:00 pm
Recently I attended the Webstock conference here in Wellington, and I had my mind expanded, challenged and opened in so many ways that no doubt I’ll be blogging about it for years to come. But today I’m going to talk about two pieces of information that I heard.
The first was from a woman I talked to […]
