Hon Paul Swain  Minister of Communications   The Minister plans to review current Government Policy and develop the Government E-Vision

Rebekah Burton  Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Tasmania, Australia

Testing the Benefits of the Information Economy

A major strength of the Tasmanian approach is the reliance on partnerships with other levels of government, community organisations and the private sector.  In this context, the Tasmanian experience has shown that relationship management with key stakeholders is just as important as the basic objective of knowledge management.  Collaboration, cooperation and consultation are central to getting the most out of  new technologies.

Tom Dale   National Office for the Information Economy,   Australian Federal Government.

An expert on e-commerce, particularly legislative frameworks and international developments

Len Cook   Chief Executive   Statistics New Zealand

Len is a member of the State Services Commission’s CEO’s e-Govt Project Committee.

Tad Howington   President of ARMA International (Association of Records Managers and Administrators). Colorado,  United States of America. 

ARMA is primarily North American and has several thousand members, including many in New Zealand.  The organisation started out paper focused but is now firmly into the electronic world as well. He will speak about the integration of records, information and knowledge management...skill sets, past v. future, etc.

Ross Tanner    State Services Commission

Jane Freeman – GM  e-solutions    and   Paul Cohen - CEO NZHIS well present  on the Health Intranet and the potential this  represents for a number of vertically integrated applications eg Health, Border Control, Welfare, TAX etc. The Health Intranet provides a secure intranet environment for the transportation of health information for the Health Sector as a whole.

Michael Easthope     NSW Office for Information Technology

Michael Easthope works for the NSW State Government as a project manager, electronic services where he has been part of a team developing the NSW Government's single window to online government services - ServiceNSW (http://www.nsw.gov.au).

He will be presenting some of the practical lessons learned and problems experienced in the development of ServiceNSW and will be focussing on the current problems of defining the term "service" as it applies to online government service delivery.

Dame Margaret Bazley   Ministry of Social Policy ; Chair of the SSC e-Govt Project Committee

Deidre Butlers    Ministry of Health

Collaboration - what is it? Could it be one of the most important facets in making 'knowledge management' environments really work?  Take a tour of the Ministry of Health knowledge management environment which is based on a collaborative computing model and make up your own mind.

Richard Anderson     NZGO

Future Direction: " New Zealand Government On-line as the official Gateway to New Zealand

Government on the Internet will continue to consolidate its position as the conduit for ALL Government Agencies to use as a portal for the public to access the full range of information necessary for the effective provision of e-government in New Zealand in the future"

Ros Coote          The Treasury

Exchanging knowledge: Secure Electronic Environment project. (SEE)

NZ government departments and agencies have become owners of very specialised information and knowledge. They also have to interact to get information for policy development and service delivery. The SEE project has been about enabling secure access to valuable information usually held captive within departmental walls.

- How does SEE compare with projects in other countries?  - What are the major learning’s from the SEE project so far?  - Visualising secure knowledge exchange in the public sector.

Brendan Kelly    The Treasury

e-Infrastructure projects by and for multiple agencies

The Secure Electronic Environment (SEE) is a joint initiative between three agencies - the State Services Commission, the Treasury and the Department for the Prime Minister and Cabinet. SEE is designed to be scalable to meet the needs of a wider-public service user base, and in the longer term to a state sector user base. This session examines the joys and perils of multi-agency collaboration in the start-up phase of an e-infrastructure project.

 - Governance issues of multi-agency projects   - Stakeholder management  - Making a business case for e-infrastructure  - Electronic security in the public service;  - Future direction of government business environment in New Zealand.

 Bryre Patchell / Laura Simpson        Inland Revenue

Inland Revenue has implemented simplification initiatives to remove the need for salary and wage earners to file income tax returns.  This has required employers to provide information on the tax they take out of employee’s salaries to the Inland Revenue on a monthly basis.

 To support employers who have large payrolls Inland Revenue implemented irFile, an electronic information exchange tool.  This tool enables employers to file their monthly information over the internet.  This has involved encryption and digital certificates. Inland Revenue will talk through the lessons learnt from this technology development and where to from here.