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E-government Update

Welcome to @your.service, a regular round up of e-government news from New Zealand and around the world.

We aim to reach a broad audience, including government people, suppliers of IT and telecommunications services, people in the community who are following the progress of e-government, as well as international audiences.

Issue 4 - May 2002

The e-government programme reached several important milestones over the last few months. Phase 1 of the e-services project came to a close in March with over 1000 services government services listed. Apart from providing invaluable information to guide the development of the longer-term e-services strategy, the services metadata is the starting point for agencies completing their metadata for the portal. Other e-services list information may be incorporated in further versions of the portal.

The e-government metadata management facility - the Metalogue - has replaced the interim e-services tool used to collect the first round of metadata. And work is well underway on further metadata collection, including adding more services and their related information resources.

Both the NZGLS standard and its associated thesauri - the functions and subjects of New Zealand - have been handed to their custodians, Archives New Zealand and the National Library of New Zealand. The Cabinet-endorsed NZGLS metadata standard will ensure that agencies describe their services and information in a way that will allow people to find what they want easily though the new government web portal.

The portal will provide people with an easy route to an ever-increasing range of online government services. As people make greater use of the Internet to reach government agencies, the need to protect people's personal information becomes paramount. Recently Cabinet agreed a policy framework to guide future thinking about how members of the public identify themselves online so that government agencies and the people they deal with can be certain services and information are being delivered to the right person.

After extensive consultation with agencies and representatives of the vendor community, version 1.0 of the New Zealand e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) has been completed. The e-GIF will guide inter-agency projects by establishing base standards for file formats and data exchange, and the way these shared processes are governed.

The first phase of the e-procurement project is underway with a contract signed with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young to develop a pilot system for agencies and suppliers to use as a test laboratory. The pilot will inform the shape of any final government online purchasing system.

Finally, December saw the first update of the e-government strategy, reflecting the progress made by agencies and the E-government Unit and providing a more detailed look at the work ahead.

The next few months will see more e-government deliveries, most notably the launch of government web portal at the beginning of July.

Deliveries

Here we highlight key milestones achieved in selected e-government projects and the programme as a whole.

Showroom

Here we show-case initiatives underway now in New Zealand government organisations - e-government in action.

Offshore

Here we offer stories from off shore that strike chords with work we are doing in our programme.