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Plans signed off yesterday; Internal Affairs believed to be set for bigger role
By Randal Jackson | Wellington | Tuesday, 5 October, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Government will announce its ICT plans later this week, after Cabinet signed off on Monday on “Directions and Priority for Government ICT”.
There are five key areas of focus:
- Cross-government leadership, based on the Ministerial steering group and a group of chief executives.
- More open and transparent data sharing.
- Integrated service delivery.
- Common capability and rationalised infrastructure, with the Department of Internal Affairs providing a central purchasing role for common capability.
- Efficiency and effectiveness. This will relate to the Treasury benchmarking study, known as Better Administrative Support Services, of shared services across 12 agencies.
Computerworld understands State Services’ strategic ICT role will be merged into DIA, which will lead ICT procurement.
Internal Affairs Minister Nathan Guy will make the announcement later this week.
Comments
Anyone remeber the GSN?
This project sounds similar to the GSN (Govt Shared Network) in which Laurence Millar went down in a ball of flames, or even further back the GCB. It will be interesting to understand what efficiencies are hoped to be gained from this activity.
* will this team have a mandate so agencies use their services
* what services will they provide to agencies
* will services be robust and flexible enough to meet agencies needs
* will services be cost competitive
* will the ICT branch be able to support its constituents
I hope this is not more of the build it and they will come mentatility. Larger agencies have sunk incredible amounts of time and cost into their systems, it would be hard to for them to see any benefit in such initiatives.
Posted by henareho at 15:34:42 on October 11, 2010
* will this team have a mandate so agencies use their services
* what services will they provide to agencies
* will services be robust and flexible enough to meet agencies needs
* will services be cost competitive
* will the ICT branch be able to support its constituents
I hope this is not more of the build it and they will come mentatility. Larger agencies have sunk incredible amounts of time and cost into their systems, it would be hard to for them to see any benefit in such initiatives.
Posted by henareho at 15:34:42 on October 11, 2010
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