GOVIS 2009: User-Centred Government
More than meets the eye

Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 May 2009
Wellington Town Hall

Keynote speaker bios and links to conference proceedings can be found in the online Conference Handbook, or go directly to the GOVIS Rich Media site for synchronised video and slide presentations using the Mediasite viewer

Presentations (video and slides) can be viewed online on the GOVIS Rich Media server

Jana Lyn-Holly of MINDesign has produced a series of artworks that capture the essential lessons of presentations in the Green IT stream and workshops

Keynote Speaker - Jonathan Boston, VUW
Setting the scene: Climate change policy - Global trends and issues (PDF 482KB)

Keynote Speaker - Peter Barrett, VUW
Climate science - trends and issues (PDF 488KB)

Keynote Speaker - Mark Perkins, Chief Technology Officer, Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. (US)
People, Process and Products - the use of energy efficient technologies (PDF 517KB)

Keynote Speaker - The Business Case: A Vehicle for Managing Business Value (PDF 1,756KB)
Grant Avery, State Services Commission

Cost Effective, Sustainable ICT... Yeah Right! (PDF 542KB)
Andy Woodwark, Ministry of Economic Development and Chris Browne, Ministry for the Environment

Green - the new black: how ICT can enable government to be more sustainable (PDF 538KB)
Russell Craig, Cisco (HK)

Technologies for Implementing a Flexible and Sustainable Work Environment (PDF 532KB)
Damien Toman, Gen-i

Govt Green IT - a review of global trends, and;
Green IT - Talk the talk (PDF 580KB)
Mike Pearson, SSC, and Edwin Bruce, SSC

The Australian Scene: Issues and Trends Facing the Australian Spatial Industry (PDF 1,855KB)
Gary Nairn, Former Australian Special Minister of State

Spatially Reengineering Honolulu (PDF 2,042KB)
Jeremy Harris, Former Mayor of Honolulu City

The Future of Digital Information Management - Truths & Urban Legends (PDF 1,794)
Justine Heazlewood, Director, Public Record Office of Victoria, Australia

Concept and practice of recordkeeping audits (PDF 388KB)
Des Pearson Auditor-General, Victoria, Australia

Workshop outputs
Q1 (PDF 301KB)
Q2 (PDF 369KB)
Q3 (PDF 353KB)
Q4 (PDF 358KB)

The, 4 page miniConference programme (PDF 397 KB) remains available for your convenience. 

Conference presentations can be viewed on this page

Webstock was the inspiration of Web Standards New Zealand, a non-affiliated group of web standards enthusiasts who's efforts came to fruition in delivering a major conference. With it's own experience of running high quality events, eagerly anticipated by delegates and sponsors alike, GOVIS is especially pleased that by assisting  Web Standards New Zealand with their inaugural conference, it is likely Webstock will become a regular and independent event.

In August 2003, GOVIS held the very successful Open Source Software Seminar. After two and a half years we've staged a "refresh". Experts and industry players gave their take on the state of Open Source and its place in Government agencies.

The proceedings are now available.

Rich Media presentations from the Open Source Seminar are available

GOVIS 8:

Encapsulating the twin themes of "e-involvement" or engagement and "evolution", was the 2005 conference's keyword and theme

GOVIS 8  was held in the Wellington Convention Centre, Wellington Town Hall, from Wednesday 18th - Friday 20th May 2005.

Rich Media presentations from the GOVIS Evolve Conference are available.

This year's Buzzies stories and the category winners were announced at the Conference Dinner on Friday 20 May. Congratulations to our winners and all nominees.

GOVIS 7: enable - enable was selected as the theme for the 2003 conference. This successful conference was held November 12 - 14 in  Wellington at the Wellington Convention Centre, Wellington Town Hall.

Delegates Handbook and Conference Proceedings

The online delegates handbook includes the finalised programme with links to the presentations from the conference day. Please refer to the programme.

In 2003, the Buzzies were be presented at the Conference Dinner. The nominees' stories are available

This one-day seminar addressing the opportunities and challenges of using Open Source Software provided a broad and balanced overview of the issues associated with OSS, including total cost of ownership, security, legal issues and availability of support.

Links to the presentations are being added to the agenda and the speakers pages as they are received.

Cynefin Masterclass 2002: An Introduction to Organic Knowledge Management and New Decision Frameworks.

An interactive learning event featuring world class pioneers in narrative patterns and storytelling techniques for Knowledge Management and the applications of these techniques in transforming organisational culture.

GOVIS 4: E-Government 2000
Electronic Government – Towards Knowledge Sharing - An extremely successful conference with 230 delegates (200 % increase on previous conference in Nov 98), 25 Trade display sites and a programme which was extended with a Pre–Conference Commercial Briefing. Quality speakers provided the delegates with topical material relative to the Government sector within the field of e-government and Knowledge management.

34 speakers over 3 days with a large trade display combined with 30 sponsors provided a forum that provided government sector Information Specialists plenty to think about.