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E-government Update

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

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 8 - September 2003

The E-government Unit was originally established to facilitate a four-year programme that would come to a close in 2004. While much has already been achieved in the programme, it has become clear that e-government isn’t something that you just set and forget. There is an on-going role for an enabler and coordinator of agencies’ e-government efforts, and there are some all-of-government aspects of the programme, such as the government portal, that require a long-term central support.

Recently the E-government Unit has facilitated the development of e-government within agencies in some very practical ways. A new version of Metalogue now makes it easier to maintain and extend the metadata that helps people find government services and information on the Internet. Audience-focussed portals can now be developed “better, faster, cheaper” by reusing some of the components of the government portal. A toolkit approach to online collaborative work has been prototyped, and will be progressively rolled out as a production system. A comprehensive survey of agency e-initiatives across the Public Service provides an overview of e-government activity and possible opportunities for collaboration between agencies in the future.

The E-government Unit also continues to play a role in managing the development of e-government foundation stones, such as the e-GIF, the Web Guidelines and the all-of-government approach to online authentication, as well as providing a strategic view of the programme across the sector.