@your.service - the latest round up of e-government
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 5 - August 2002
Much of the early work on the e-government programme saw agencies and the E-government Unit developing common standards - the Web Guidelines, the NZGLS metadata standard, the New Zealand E-government Interoperability Framework and the policy framework for online authentication. While these standards are making it easier for both central and local government agencies to efficiently and rapidly advance their e-government activity, frameworks and standards can hardly be regarded as the most publicly visible of achievements for the e-government programme.
The government web portal, on the other hand, will be plain for all to see. For many New Zealanders it will be solid evidence of e-government in action, a site that helps you find the services and information you need, without having to know which government organisation does what. With NZGO already one of the most visited sites in New Zealand, the portal promises to become a tool of everyday use in libraries, community organisations, schools and homes around the country.
Deliveries
Here we highlight key milestones achieved in selected e-government projects and the programme as a whole.
- First-round metadata collection nearly complete
- Portal beta released to agencies
- Portal operations team comes together
- E-services: where to from here?
- Authentication solutions design project outlines next steps
- Shared workspace
- S.E.E. Update
Showroom
Here we show-case initiatives underway now in New Zealand government organisations - e-government in action.
- Urge/Whakamanawa – a web site for and by youth
- Department of Labour enhances online immigration services
- Updated security manual issued
Offshore
Here we offer stories from off shore that strike chords with work we are doing in our programme.
- International reports feature New Zealand e-government activity
- European Commission adopts refocused e-action plan

