[Aust-NZ] Fw: [ninjas] Directions and Priorities for Government ICT

[pcreso at pcreso.com]

Of interest I hope...

Some direction on ICT policies & procurement given to NZ government depts. 


Most of the role the SSC had in this area in now with DIA.

A common ICT roadmap for Govt to be drawn up, hopefully with Open Source lobbying effectively :-)

A firm direction to use cross Govt services & products, so ideally open standards & reuseable Open Source

Cheers,

Brent Wood

--- On Fri, 10/8/10, Julian Carver <julian.carver at seradigm.co.nz> wrote:

> From: Julian Carver <julian.carver at seradigm.co.nz>
> Subject: [ninjas] Directions and Priorities for Government ICT
> To: ninja-talk at groups.open.org.nz
> Date: Friday, October 8, 2010, 11:56 AM
> Hi all,
> 
> Yesterday Internal Affairs Minister the Hon Nathan Guy
> announced the
> 'Directions and Priorities for Government ICT'. This
> replaces the 2006
> eGoverment Strategy.
> 
> The press release is here:
> http://beehive.govt.nz/release/new+approach+ict+government
> 
> The documents including the Cabinet Paper, and Cabinet
> Minute are here:
> http://www.dia.govt.nz/Directions-and-Priorities-for-Government-ICT
> 
> The key high level aspects are:
> 
>    1. The role of *Government CIO* will be
> moving to be held by the *DIA CEO
>    *
>    2. The stewardship of the *e-GIF* will
> also be transfered to the *DIA*
>    3. *Government Technology Services* (GTS,
> a part of DIA) will lead a *Common
>    ICT Capability Roadmap for govt*
>    4. Ministers have been asked to *set
> expectations* of their portfolio
>    chief executives on ensuring alignment of
> their agency's ICT and
>    the Directions and Priorities for
> Government ICT (i.e. a fairly top down
>    directive to make this happen, rather
> than an opt in approach)
>    5. CE's of Public Service depts are
> *directed *to use cross-govt ICT
>    products and services to meet relevant
> business needs, *unless *there is
>    a compelling reason not to (again not an
> opt in approach decided at CIO
>    level)
> 
> The specifics that are likely to be of interest to the open
> government/open
> data community relate to one of the 5 'directions' being
> "Support open and
> transparent government"
> 
> This is as follows (excerpted from the Directions and
> Priorities for
> Government ICT paper).
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> *Supporting open and transparent government*
> 
> *Priorities:*
> 
>    - Improve public access to government
> data and information
>    - Support the public, communities and
> business to contribute to policy
>    development and performance improvement
>    - Create market opportunities and
> services through the reuse of
>    government data and information
> 
> ....
> 
> Government data effective belongs to the New Zealand
> public, and its release
> and re-use has the potential to:
> 
>    - stimulate economic growth
>    - promote innovation in the private
> sector through the development of new
>    products and business opportunities based
> on government data
>    - contribute to transparency of
> government thereby maintaining the
>    integrity of the public management
> system
>    - allow greater participation in
> government policy development by
>    offering insight and expert knowledge on
> released data (e.g. using
>    geospatial data to analyse patters of
> crime in communities)
>    - enable educational, research, and
> scientific communities to build on
>    existing data to gain knowledge and
> expertise and use it for new purposes
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> It'd be interesting to hear what people outside of
> government think of all
> of this. Does it seem like a good step in the right
> direction?
> 
> Julian
> 
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