The whole picture - reaching out to communities

New Zealand's best interests lie in the integration of central and local government services and information. Local government bodies are strongly encouraged to:

• participate fully in developing and implementing e-government;

• offer a wide range of services online through the government portal;

• form information-based service partnerships with central government, either as a whole or with specific state sector agencies with which there are areas of common interest; and

• adopt, where applicable, the policies developed for e-government.