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From time-to-time, forums are organised for GOVIS members, to hear presentations by colleagues and peers in government and industry, and to discuss common issues. This calendar will be updated as details come to hand.

Recent events are also listed on this page, but a more comprehensive set of links to recent and past presentations is also available.

 


     
 
 
  Next events    
  Wednesday 13 August 2008
12:00-2:00 pm
State Services Commission
Service Design and the IRD experience
Speaker: Darren Lee - Design, Development and Innovation Group, IRD
 
       
 
 
  Upcoming events    
  Date and venues to be confirmed
End of August
12:00-2:00 pm
Intranet Field Trip II - three different agency Intranets  
       
 
 
  Recent events    
  Wednesday 23 July 2008 An update was delivered on the results of the Web Standards Accessibility Assessment 2008 by the SSC Web standards team.  
       
  Wednesday 16 July 2008 Alison Holt spoke about the new IT Governance standards - responsibilities for governing Information Assets

Alison chairs the working group developing IT Governance standards. The first in the series was released on June 5th 2008. It is titled ISO/IEC38500:2008, Corporate governance of information technology.
 
       
  Friday 27 June 2008 Grant Avery gave a briefing on progress and new products from the Gateway Project:
Grant manages the ICT Monitoring and Capability function in the SSC.
 
       
  Friday 20 June 2008 Field trip to see three different agency Intranets  
       
  Tuesday 20 May 2008 Government Web Community and GOVIS web-forum: managing the RFP and
tender process.
 
       
  Friday 18 April, 2008

Peter Carr, Clerk-Assistant (Corporate Services) and Moira Fraser, Parliamentary Librarian discussed Joined-up Government.

The Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives (Office of the Clerk) and the Parliamentary Service work closely together to publish the website. www.parliament.govt.nz.

 
       
  Wednesday 22 August Sara Barham spoke about the Public Sector Intranet (PSI) and the many workspaces and resources it contains.
Michelle Edgerley gave a quick run-through of the Cabinet & Committees workspace on the PSI and give a sneak preview of the new CabGuide website due to be launched a fortnight later.
JC Somers made a plug for the new Policy Development Toolkit website on the PSI.
 
       
  Friday 15th December Government Call Centres, followed by the GOVIS End of Year "Do"
Join us for a refreshing dose of "no pressure" networking and pre-festive-season cheer.
Speaker: Riyaz Abdeen, Ministry of Justice, Contact Centre Team Leader.
Venue: National Archives, Mulgrave St, Training Room.
Organiser: Rob McNie @ Justice
 
       
  Tuesday 12 December
 
Everything you need to know about the new Government Web standard.
This was a joint Government Web Community and GOVIS session:
Speaker: Karen Burns, Web Standards Manager for e-GIF, State Services Commission.
 
       
  Tuesday 28 November Update on Gartner conference held October 2006.
Speaker: Joel Stuart, Collections Applications Manager, Ministry of Justice.
 
       
  Friday 3 November An invitation to meet Dr Bob Pierce, chief of the National Geospatial Programs' Office (US) and responsible for the Geospatial One-Stop Portal.
Dr Pierce's visit was sponsored by LINZ, who kindly offered GOVIS members the opportunity to meet him.
 
       
  Wednesday 24 October Invitation to meet with Patrick Gannon, CEO of OASIS  
       
  Wednesday 18 October GOVIS Cafe - an opportunity to network around "themed" tables
Our inaugural GOVIS Cafe was very successful. Twenty-five members took advantage of this "themed" networking opportunity, enjoying the exchange of insights and experiences over coffee and nibbles. Watch the GOVIS email lists for the next one.
 
       
  Tuesday 3 October POLI online instant payment over the Internet.  
       
  Wednesday 13 September User centred design workshop with Usability Professionals Association of NZ.
Presentation slides (PDF) available on the UPANZ website.
 
       
  Friday 21 July Report back from the AUSCERT Conference
Speaker: Rob McNie, Justice.
 
       
  Wednesday 19 July
The New World of Content and Information Management.
Report on AIIM Expo in Philadelphia, attended by Beryl Anderson, sponsored by
GOVIS.
 
       
  Friday 2 June

IBM's experience with Intrusion Prevention using SourceFire.

 
       
  Tuesday 23 May Usability and Information Architectures.
Q and A with Donna Maurer, Webstock keynote speaker.
 
       
  Friday 28 April Creating an effective information security culture.
Speaker: Dr Gary Hinson
 
       
 

Thursday 27 April

Internet EFTPOS - increasing payment options on the Internet.
 
     

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