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Foreword

The New Zealand e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) is a set of policies, technical standards, and guidelines (recommended practices) that outline the Government's policy on how public sector organisations should achieve electronic "interoperability" (i.e. the ability to share information and technology through using common policies and standards). Cabinet approved the e-GIF for use in the public sector on 13 June 2002.

Its content currently covers data and information, information and communications technology (ICT), and inter-agency electronic business protocols. Use of the e-GIF will enable agencies to make gains in efficiency, and also to improve the quality of service they offer to the public.

As much as interoperability is about agencies working together to improve delivery of services, it also affects the vendor community, in that they need to understand and provide services based on inter-agency business needs. Contribution by the vendor community in the formative stages of the New Zealand e-GIF has been an important factor to ensuring the validity of the framework.

To this end, working groups made up of government agencies and a number of vendors worked on the production of the e-GIF between October and December 2001. The collaboration with IT and IM vendors has proven extremely invaluable in reaching consensus over the choice of open standards to achieve a framework for a 'joined-up' government.

The e-GIF will change as technology and business needs change. This will be assured through governance arrangements for the e-GIF.

This document uses technical material from the previous NZ e-government projects that delivered the Information Systems and Data Management Policies and Standards in April 2000. While this document replaces these previous policies and standards in the area of interoperability, they still have a status as important policies for internal information management practices for government agencies, and can be found at:

This document also incorporates parts of the United Kingdom's e-GIF document. [The UK e-GIF copyright notice is reproduced in full in Appendix B. The following is a shortened version: e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF)© Crown copyright 2001]

A Who's Who of Organisations Contributing to the e-GIF

A Who's Who of organisations contributing to the e-GIF.


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