P-Q
- Participation (electronic or online)
- Participation
through the use of Information and Communication Technologies.
Participation covers information, consultation and active involvement
in government policy/service design and delivery.
- PDAs
- Personal Digital Assistants: small portable devices some of which can be used to browse websites.
- PDF
- Portable Document Format: a format that is suited to printing documents intended for paper rather than screen.
- Personalisation
- The
tailoring of a product, communication or service to an individual
customer, or segment of customers, by using knowledge of that customer
or segment.
- Phishing
- The practice of trying
fraudulently to get consumer banking and credit card information.
Phishing involves faking a bank's or other company website, then
sending spam claiming to be from the bank, asking people to enter their
userid and password into the fake website. This is so that the
perpetrator can access the victim's account.
- PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
- A
lock and key system that allows one person to scramble information
before sending it to another in a way that can be unscrambled only by a
person holding the appropriate key.
- Plain-text message
- A message that is not encrypted.
- PNG
- Portable Network Graphic: An image format suited to the web but not yet widely supported.
- Portal
- A single website giving structured access to other websites, for example www.govt.nz.
Portals typically provide large catalogues of other sites, powerful
search engines for locating information, and email facilities or other
attractive web services.
- Privacy policy
- A set of
rules and practices that specify or regulate how a person or
organisation collects, processes (uses) and discloses another party's
personal data as a result of an interaction.
- Proof of concept
- Development of a prototype of a system to ensure that the design will meet the business benefits sought.
- Protocols
- In the Shared Workspace
project, protocols are a written agreement between Shared Workspace and
each client group about conditions of use and responsibilities for all
parties. It covers generic conditions of use for all user groups plus
specific ground rules a group agrees is important to them.
- Public sector
- The State sector and all local authorities.
- Public Service
- The
Public Service comprises the departments listed in the First Schedule
to the State Sector Act; the number has varied between 36 and 39 in the
last year.
