Excellence in the Use of ICT in Government

Computerworld is proud to announce the launch of another award in our series of single, targeted Awards for this year. We are now calling for entries in the "Excellence in the Use of ICT in Government Award", kindly sponsored by HP.

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The winner of the Excellence in the Use of ICT in Government

Computerworld is delighted to announce the winner of the Excellence in the Use of ICT in Government award for 2009.

It is the Department of Corrections for the Cellular Phone Jamming project.

Please click here to read more about the project and the other finalists.

Computerworld would like to take this opportunity to thank the judges for their time and expertise.

Judges

Dr Colin Boswell, Consultant, Boswell Consulting
Colin is an independent consultant with significant experience in ICT management and consulting. He was the New Zealand consulting director for Gartner, and prior to that was partner responsible for the New Zealand IT Practice for PA Consulting Group. He specialises in business continuity planning, green IT, organisational ICT reviews and restructuring, IT related strategy development, review and implementation, strategic sourcing and external quality assurance of ICT systems and projects and his clients have included central and local government, the manufacturing and process industries and commercial organisations.

Marcel van den Assum, Professional Director and Independent Advisor
Marcel has been an information services professional for over 25 years touching on most aspects from support to strategy, both in New Zealand and overseas. His most senior leadership positions have included managing principal in Unisys Corporation and CIO for Fonterra. Since leaving Fonterra in 2005, Marcel has focused on a governance career as a professional director and independent advisor to various commercial and government entities.

Tony West, formerly CIO Land Transport New Zealand
Tony has over 25 years' experience with information systems and also has a background in internal audit. He was the CIO of the Land Transport Safety Authority from 2000 to 2004 and was responsible for the development and implementation of a number of major business and systems projects until moving into the CIO role in 2000. As CIO, he was responsible for the future information systems strategy for Land Transport NZ, management of the IT budget and staff, contract management, solutions delivery and services delivery.

Category Definition and Qualification:

Qualifying Organisations: All public sector organisations in both central (e.g. departments, agencies and crown entities) and local government (territorial local authorities, regional councils, etc). Profit-making organisations such as SOEs and LATEs are excluded, as are educational establishments.

Qualifying People: ICT personnel or business users/sponsors of ICT-based projects. They must work for a qualifying organisation (i.e. not for a consulting or vendor firm, for example).

Qualifying Projects/Systems: Those which have made a difference. At least some elements of the system must be in live operation by 30 June 2009 (work-in-progress does not qualify).

Submissions will be evaluated on:

• The extent to which they have achieved their stated objectives and business case.
• The extent to which they have made a difference and the benefits to the public of New Zealand.
• Cost-effective use of innovative concepts or technologies.
• How challenges were met and overcome.
• Effective use of appropriate risk management and project control mechanisms.
• Evaluation and quantification of benefits achieved.

Category questions include;

1. What does the system do?
2. How does it do it?
3. What were your objectives when undertaking the project (e.g. efficiency, service to the public, contribution to e-government/knowledge economy, cost saving, etc).
4. What functional area(s) within your organisation does the project/system address and how does it achieve this?
5. What was the business case, in particular, what qualitative and quantitative benefits were proposed?
6. What is new or different about it?
7. What difference has this project made and how does it benefit the public of New Zealand?
8. What processes did you use to ensure the ICT solution was introduced and deployed effectively?
9. What challenges arose and how did you overcome them?
10. Detail whether the benefits used to justify the project were achieved and how you measured them.
11. Please supply any other information you think may assist your submission.
12. Please supply details of two users whom our judges may contact as references:
13. Please list all technology suppliers involved in the project:
14. Please list any supporting documentation that is available on request: