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Activities

Activities

The E-government Strategy sets out the responsibilities for government agencies and the E-government Unit to December 2004.

Agency responsibilities

  • Contribute to the development of the authentication policy framework (to March 2002)
  • Contribute to the development of the implementation proposal, specifically the level of authentication needed to manage risks associated with particular online transactions (from April 2002)
  • Adopt policy framework as required (from April 2002)
  • Use technical solutions accredited or supplied by the EGU (contingent on Cabinet approval and business needs of agencies) (from April 2003)

E-government Unit responsibilities

  • Lead the development of the policy framework (by March 2002)
  • Seek Cabinet approval for policy framework (March 2002)
  • Support agencies in the application of the authentication policy framework to meet one-off immediate needs where necessary
  • Develop implementation proposal for all-of-government authentication solution (contingent on Cabinet approval) (from April 2002)
  • Seek Cabinet approval of implementation proposal (March 2003)
  • Implement agreed authentication solution (from April 2003)