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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.

Showroom

Here we show-case initiatives underway now in New Zealand government organisations - e-government in action.

Offshore

Here we offer stories from off shore that strike chords with work we are doing in our programme.