Update (12/03/10): Google’s post: Promoting Open Government in New Zealand
The State Services Commission and Department of Internal Affairs are now finalising the New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL) which will then be put to Cabinet for consideration. In doing so, we are incorporating excellent feedback from State Services agencies and the public. [...]
The Australian 2.0 Taskforce’s draft report, ‘Engage: getting on with Government 2.0′, makes bold recommendations aimed at making “government not just more open and democratic, not just more consultative, but also a truer collaboration between the apparatus of the state and its citizens”.
It suggests that the USA, UK and NZ are leading the ‘transition towards Government 2.0′ [...]
Providing services online, done well, benefits both people and government.
Individuals, professionals, businesses, etc. who choose to use government’s online services benefit from “anytime, anywhere” access to government services. Agencies benefit by freeing up their frontline service delivery staff. Instead of routine transactions, staff can spend more time on complex, high-touch cases that enables both more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Further to Vikram Kumar’s excellent Showing us a better way post, here is some information about the Open Government Information and Data Re-use project, led by the State Services Commission.
Here also is our just released Promoting Government Information and Data Re-use Background Paper. We have summarised the New Zealand government information environment, described key international government information policies and initiatives, and are proposing a [...]
The UK Government’s competition Show Us a Better Way is living up to its name. The competition is run by the Power of Information Taskforce.
The page About This Competition describes it eloquently:
“The government produces masses of information on what is happening around the UK. Information on crime, on health, on education. However, this information is [...]
The Department of Labour has a new initiative called Workforce 2020. Its purpose is to stimulate debate on future trends affecting the labour market, by thinking what the labour market might look like in 12 years. From 2008, looking out to 2020 seems a long way away. But to train some professionals, such as scientists, [...]
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 [...]
