GOVIS 2011 Connect
Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 June 2011

A conference on how State servants connect: in an emergency, with new aproaches and services, and most importantly of all, with New Zealanders, enabled by information and technology.

Click on the Links to see the presenter's slides or video.

Wednesday 22nd was Open Government Data Day to focus on the 'how' of opening up data for others to reuse. Organised by Open NZ in partnership with GOVIS. 

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Download the Exclusive Briefing Room programme 124 KB

	Monday 20th June
8:20	Registration
8:40	Welcome from GOVIS Committee
8.50	Introduction to Lessons Learned from the Christchurch Earthquakes  Facilitator, Jim Stuart-Black, Security and Risk Group, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Jim lead the Rescue Teams in Christchurch and also took a rescue team to Japan.
9.10	Working together: First Response agencies Police, Fire, Ambulance, Telecommunications Inspector Kieren Kortegast, Southern Contact Centre Manager, NZ Police Michael Brooke, Operations Manager, St John Bill Butzbach, New Zealand Fire Service Kester Gordon, Senior Advisor, ICT Policy Group, MED Captain Jimmy Kerr, NZDF and other presenters  to be confirmed
10.30	Morning Tea
11am	Plenary session Continues
	What's the risk? (seismologically) Russ Van Dissen, Senior Earthquake Geologist and Jim Cousins, Senior Engineering Seismologist. "Its Our Fault" Project, GNS
	"Getting thru" in Wellington? Fred Mecoy, Wellington Emergency Management Office, Wellington City Council
	Getting Government Thru: preparing for a major Wellington event Panel Discussion with the presenters.
12.00	Lunch		Exclusive Briefing Room: 12.15 i-Octane
1pm	Sessions on concurrently
	Oceania Room	Rangimarie 1	TelstraClear Centre
	Directions and Priorities updates on Common Capability Chair: Leanne Gibson, Government ICT Council Overview of the Investment Fund for new Capability Initiatives: Matt Ross, Office of the GCIO Enterprise Software Initiative. Brent Chalmers, Government ICT Supply Management Office	Divide and Conquer your User Base: Lessons from an agency trial with new devices Craig Soutar, CIO, New Zealand Transport Agency Earthquake Employment Support Package: Rapid Application Delivery at its Best Jason Cribb, Project Manager, MSD Applications Team	Rangimarie 2:Workshop 1 - 1.50pm Is Email Killing Collaboration? Dan Randow, OnlineGroups. Dan is focused on the use of email in organisations, and has developed a research instrument to systematically gather information about the ways that email is used for group collaboration.
	1.50 Break to move between sessions	Break to Move between sessions	Exclusive Briefing Room: 1pm Objective
	2pm Directions and Priorities updates on Common ICT Capability Chair: Leanne Gibson, Government ICT Council Infrastructure As a Service Greg Patchell, CIO MED Identity Work Update David Habershon, CIO, MSD and Andrea Gray, Manager, Identity Common Capability Programme, DIA Smarter Desktop Trudy Rankin, CIO, DOC and Craig Soutar, CIO New Zealand Transport Agency	Introducing the IRD Business Rules Centre: Making business rules discoverable Rata Kamau and Veronica O'Grady, Business Rules Centre, IRD Data.govt.nz: discoverable data and datasets Nadia Webster, Government Information Services, DIA	Exclusive Briefing Room: 1.40 Techtonics
			Exclusive Briefing Room: 2.20-2.50 Equinox
3pm	Afternoon Tea
3.20-3.55	Oceania Room Working With Government: a Vendor's Peculiar Perspective Mike O'Conner, founder and director of Catalyst IT. How government can work with startups Brian Calhoun, former CEO of Silverstripe	Rangimarie 1  IP V6 Readiness in government Rob White, Technical Specialist, Government Technology Services, DIA  Sharing is the secret to Success - the Polytech platform for Back Office Development Sarah Heal, Information Leadership Stephen M Porteners, Manager Business Information Centre, Whitiriea Polytechnic	Exclusive briefing room: 3.20 -3.50 Aura Software Security iRisks - Threats and mitigations for using the iPad and iPhone in government
4pm	Oceania Room: Closing Keynote The new National Plan for Cybersecurity Grant Fletcher, General Manager, Information Assurance and Cyber Policy, CGCSB John Harvey, Programme Manager, Government Technology Services, DIA Alan Bell, Cyber Programme Manager, Communications and IT Policy, MED
	4:45	Preview of Next Day and Day One Conference closing
5pm	End of Day One drinks: Angus Room, Telstra Clear Centre, Te Papa

Tuesday 21st of June

8:20	Registration
8:40	Welcome and Introductions from the Chair
8.55	Opening up Trusted Government Data: Central and Local government and private sector as partners  James Dempsey, LINZ Customer Services Strategy Manager Opening up Trusted Government Data: Understanding your customers' point of view Jan Pierce: General Manager Customer Services, LINZ   Opening up Trusted Government Data: what does it mean? (slides)  Kevin Sweeney, Geospatial Custodian, New Zealand Geospatial Office
10.00	Morning Tea sponsored by LINZ
10:30	Concurrent sessions
	Oceania Room	Rangimarie 1
	Geo Mini-stream Crisis mapping in an emergency (slides) Eagle Technology, ECAN and EQC   The Christchurch Recovery Map Tim McNamara	Intra-government data sharing "Yes, the horses have bolted"  or, "Hey, Shut the door!" (slides) BI for policy analysis Jason Gleason: Prophesy Information sharing in government: a policy problem of growing importance (slides) Brett Coombs, Policy Advisor, Public Law Group, Ministry of Justice	Exclusive Briefing Room: 10.30-11am Techtonics
	11.05am  - 5 minute break
	11.10 Walking Access Mapping System Mark Neeson, Walking Access Commission Adding the visual 'where' to MaoriLandonline.govt.nz Tobias Luetticke, Ministry of Justice	11.10 Experience Using Web 2.0 to Open Up Archival Data for Resuse: Graeme Hairsine, Public Records Office Victoria Photographing the Red-Zone (slides)  Moira Fraser	Exclusive Briefing Room: 11.10am-12.10pm Eagle Technology
12.00	Lunch		Exclusive Briefing Room: 12.20-12.50 Squiz
1pm	Oceania Room: Government use Of Cloud services Chair: John Roberts, Group Manager Government Recordkeeping Survey Results on use of Cloud by public and private sector Marie Shroff: Privacy Commissioner: Keeping records in the Cloud Patrick Power, Manager Government Record Keeping Programme, Archives New Zealand		Exclusive Briefing Room: 1-1.30pm Funnelback
			Rangimarie 2: Workshop: 1pm to 1.50 Is Email Killing Collaboration? Dan Randow, OnlineGroups.net Another opportunity to be at this workshop. Dan is focused on the use of email in organisations, and has developed a research instrument to systematically gather information about the ways that email is used for group collaboration.
2pm	Making more government information available? Chair: John Roberts, Group Manager, Government Recordkeeping A freewheeling debate between Victoria University of Wellington Competition Debating teams Followed with pithy comment and observations from presenters and attendees		Exclusive Briefing Room: 1.40 - 2.10pm LINZ Data Service
3pm	Afternoon Tea
3.30	Oceania Room: Closing Keynote Session Chair: Julian Carver, Seradigm Access to Government Information: Where to from here? Colin McDonald, Cheif Executive, Land Information New Zealand Chair of the Information and Data Reuse Chief Executives Steering Group
4.30	Conference Closing

Open Government Data Day was held on the Wednesday following GOVIS conference.

Over the past two years, conversations around opening up government data have moved on from asking 'Why should we do this?' to asking 'How do we do this?'.

GOVIS and Open NZ teamed up to put on the Open Government Data Day. This was a free event that aimed to generate answers to the 'How?' question and strengthen connections between government agencies and the developer community.

One of the outcomes is more government datasets released in time for the Mix and Mash NZ competition that will be run in August.

What's was on the agenda?

• Presentations from people within government agencies who have successfully opened up their data, describing the process they followed and the challenges they overcame,
• Mini workshops/expert help sessions to answer the questions people have around opening up data (licensing, technology, business cases etc).

A group note taking exercise produced a good summary of takeaways from the audience.