The New Zealand media has shown no interest in the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) published in June 2009 by the World Bank. This is surprising as a contributor from the Brookings Institute observed that:
“the all mighty countries in the G-8 are not the models of good governance; instead the Nordics and New Zealand are…”
The WGI measures [...]
When I was at university, I studied some psychology. I vividly remember learning about deindividualisation; losing the sense of individual responsibility for your actions (sometimes through a false sense of anonymity) leading to anti-normative behaviour. One of the lesser-known examples that the lecturer gave, was an experiment in 1973, where six males and six females [...]
On Monday 6 April 2009 GOVIS hosted a forum exploring the opportunities for—and issues facing—the adoption of Agile development methodologies in the government space. The forum featured a panel of four people representing several different viewpoints: Mike Lowery, Agile evangelist; Liesle Venter-Wagner, developer; Mark Pascall, vendor; and Andy Neale, client. The forum was introduced and [...]
Since March the 3rd of this year, @NZGovtFeeds has been republishing various New Zealand Government RSS feeds as a Twitterstream on Twitter and on a FriendFeed account.
This is a simple but powerful example of a third party outside of Government adding value to information that Government is providing. I am uncertain which Government departments could [...]
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 [...]
We’ve had surmountable technical challenges during the development of the National Broadband Map, we’ve dealt with the challenges, solved technical problems and hope that others can take advantage of what we have created. The problems we have solved will help others, we’ve done some heavy lifting work so others don’t have to and we’ve made [...]
From the start we realised we needed to make the National Broadband Map as accessible as possible. Besides being a mandated requirement for core government websites under the New Zealand Government Web Standards, addressing accessibility helps ensure that website and application design reflect global good practice and provide improved usability for everyone. Taking account [...]
We’re not too far off from going to private beta of the new National Broadband Map and we’re welcoming anybody who wants a sneak preview to be a beta tester. It will be an informal testing process and it would be great if you could let us know if you have any issues or suggestions. [...]
