E-government in New Zealand

Welcome to the website of the New Zealand e-government programme. This site is a resource for government agency people in New Zealand who need up-to-date, easily accessible and authoritative e-government information & resources to assist them to achieve their agency's e-government goals.

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There is an archive section that contains superseded documents or older, less relevant material.

E-government News

New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL) released by Minister of State Services

6 August 2010

Today's release of the finalised and Cabinet-approved New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing framework (NZGOAL) by the Minister of State Services marks a major step towards unlocking government's non-personal copyright works and non-copyright material for re-use.

NZ government feed standard updated

4 August 2010

The e-GIF standard for publishing web feeds has been updated. The new standard specifies the use of the Atom format.

In 2003 the State Services Commission published an e-GIF specification for New Zealand Government feeds, which is a customisation of RSS 1.0. That specification is not understood by common feed readers and aggregators because of its customisation, resulting in a loss of both semantics and functionality.

Release of Government Use of ICT Survey

April 09, 2009

The State Services Commission today released the results of the 2008 Government Use of ICT Survey.

The information from the survey will assist in facilitating better coordination of ICT investments across the State sector, and provide insight into opportunities for improving productivity gains in individual organisations and the sector as a whole.

Broadband reaches 891,000 subscribers

ISP Survey shows increase in broadband subscribers

24 September, 2008

Statistics New Zealand has reported that the number of broadband subscriber numbers in New Zealand has reached 891,000.