GOVIS 2007 - Innovation in ICT

Wellington Town Hall, Civic Square, Wellington, New Zealand

Wednesday 9 to Friday 11 May 2007

www.govis.org.nz

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Welcome

Keynote Speakers

Pre-conference Workshops

Power to the people!

Creating Passionate Users

The Politics of E-Government

Unveiling the beauty of statistics with animations

Conference Programme

Day 1    Innovation

Day 2    E Government

Day 3    Futures

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GOVIS Keynote presentation Mindesigns - by Jana Lyn-Holly

Presentation Abstracts

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Links to individual abstracts can be found in the Programme below - click on the session times or the speaker names

Dear Colleagues and Friends

On behalf of GOVIS, I am pleased to invite you to take part in our 2007 Conference, to be held in the Wellington Town Hall from Wednesday, 9 May to Friday, 11 May.

The focus this year is on Innovation in ICT - developing better ways of meeting needs and solving problems, using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Innovation is essential to a well performing State Services because it helps increase efficiency, contain costs, and improve outcomes. A well performing State Services makes a huge difference to New Zealand’s success as a country and to the people that make up our society.

The GOVIS conference is a great networking opportunity for people in Government IT and an innovation exchange for members and suppliers alike.

Held every 2 years, this conference is widely recognised as the premier Information Technology and Information Management event for the New Zealand Government sector.

• The GOVIS conference is an opportunity to mingle with senior Information Systems people from central and local government. As in previous years, the programme will appeal to a wide range of people, ranging from Chief Information Officers and other senior executives responsible for information systems strategies in Government agencies, through to the various information management, technology, security and web specialists responsible for the day-to-day operation of their systems.
   

• The GOVIS conference is an opportunity for learning and sharing knowledge with colleagues in the Government sector: The programme will offer over eighty opportunities for delegates to hear informative, thought provoking and stimulating views of how agencies in conjunction with their vendors, are innovatively using their particular products or systems, to deliver better service to New Zealanders.
   

• The GOVIS conference helps improve the Government sectors’ Information Systems effi ciency and development with potential benefi t from new knowledge and learning: The conference will use a mix of keynote speakers, case studies, lessons learnt and showcases of current and emerging technologies, to provide management, technical and service perspectives and current examples of best practice in Information and Communication Technologies.
   

• The GOVIS conference provides a forum to encourage the interaction of Government IS personnel and their development of knowledge and learning: Attendees will be able to use the conference to participate and learn about issues and opportunities that will affect the development of Government Services beyond 2007.

I am confident that you will gain from the experience we have in store! I invite you to be an integral part of this Conference and look forward to seeing you there.

Mike Pearson
Chairperson GOVIS 2007 Organising Committee and GOVIS President

David Cunliffe is Minister of Immigration, Minister of Communications, Minister for Information Technology and Associate Minister for Economic Development and MP for New Lynn in Auckland.

Prior to entering Parliament, Mr Cunliffe worked as a business economist and strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, based in Auckland. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University's John F Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School, where he graduated with a Master of Public Administration. He then served as a New Zealand diplomat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He was posted to Washington DC from 1990 to 1994.

He is married to Karen and has two sons, William and Cameron
 

Don Lenihan

Donald G. Lenihan PhD., M.A., B.A. is the CEO of the Crossing Boundaries National Council, a non-partisan network of elected officials and senior public servants from across Canada. The Council’s mission is to act as a champion for the transformation of government and governance in Canada through the responsible use of information and communications technologies. It is responsible for a variety of research and consultation initiatives and pilot projects to examine contemporary issues in governance, public policy and public administration and to promote change.

Don has over 20 years of experience as a researcher, writer and analyst in areas ranging from electronic-government to citizenship and diversity. Before coming to the Centre, he was the Director of Research at the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) and, prior to that, worked for The Network on the Constitution as Director of Research and Editor of The Network/Le Réseau, a national publication on national unity and constitutional issues.

Over the last decade, Don has developed, organized, directed and contributed to dozens of national research projects involving senior public servants, academics, elected officials, journalists and members of the private sector from across the country. He has been the principal writer on many Council projects, is the author of numerous articles and studies, and is a columnist with the Hill Times newspaper in Ottawa and the magazine CIO Government Review.

Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling is professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. When working as doctor in northern Mozambique he discovered a formerly unknown paralytic disease that he named konzo. Outbreaks occur among hung cken rural populations in Africa where a diet dominated by insufficiently processed cassava results in simultaneous malnutrition and intoxication. His research also concerns other links between poverty and health in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has been adviser to WHO, UNICEF and aid agencies. He co-founded Médecins sans Frontiéres in Sweden and is a member of the International Reference Group of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He started research collaborations with universities in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America, and he started new courses on economic, social and environmental determinants of global development.

He founded Gapminder together with his son and daughter-in-law. It is a non-profit venture for development of software that converts international statistics into moving, interactive and enjoyable graphics. The aim is to promote a fact based world view through increased use and understanding of freely accessible public statistics. His lectures on world development, using Gapminder graphics, have won awards, and have been labelled “humorous, yet deadly serious”.

Tara Hunt

Tara 'miss rogue' Hunt defines herself as a customer advocate, even though her official title is marketer. She doesn't believe in Public Relations or brand building, only in the power of building relationships and platforms to empower your customers. She co-founded Citizen Agency in 2006 with a mission: changing the world one individual at a time. Citizen Agency is dedicated to creating and handing individuals the building blocks to succeed, which includes redefining success itself. CA's core business is built on the principle that when you have a strong community, you have a strong company.

Tara has eight years experience in non-traditional marketing planning and has worked with clients that range from a myriad of technology startups to retail to non-profit organizations. She writes on a successful blog over at HorsePigCow and contributes to many others.

Speaking of community, Tara is a community-based movement evangelist, spending all of her free time on Barcamp, Coworking and Winecamp. She is also a supporter of the Open Source movement, the EFF, Creative Commons and community-based standards movements like Microformats and OpenID.

Photo credited to Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
 

Dr Quentin Stafford-Fraser

Quentin Stafford-Fraser pointed a video camera at a coffee filter machine at Cambridge University in the early 90s. The ‘Trojan Room Coffee Pot’ became the first webcam, and one of the most famous sites on the early web. Since then, he has held research posts at Cambridge University, Xerox EuroPARC, Olivetti Research, and AT&T Labs. He was also a developer of the VNC software now installed on millions of machines worldwide.

More recently, Quentin has been involved in several technology-related start-ups in Cambridge, U.K., and Seattle, Washington, including Ndiyo in 2001, Newnham Research in 2003, and Exbiblio in 2004. He is currently executive director of Ndiyo, a non-profit UK company dedicated to making IT more affordable and sustainable for the global community. Quentin holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge and lives there with his wife, Rose, who has almost nothing to do with technology, nor with his recumbent bicycle.

Jon Udell

Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and new media innovator. His 1999 book, Practical Internet Groupware, helped lay the foundation for what we now call social software. Udell has been a software developer at Lotus, was BYTE Magazine’s executive editor and Web maven, and has worked as an independent consultant. In 2002 he joined InfoWorld as lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief.

More recently he has launched a monthly series of screencasts about new software and a weekly series of audio interviews with innovators. A hands-on thinker, Udell’s analysis of industry trends continues to be informed by his own ongoing experiments with software, information architecture, and new media.

Power to the people!

Workshop presenters: Zef Fugaz and Bob Medcalf - Provoke and Elyssa Timmer - Boulder Services

Full day workshop 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.

Our one-day intensive workshop teaches you how to incorporate user goals and agency needs into the web design process. You’ll develop a detailed understanding of users through user research, usage scenarios and conceptual models. You’ll help create a user-centric government website that meets both agency and user needs. You’ll learn how to conduct simple in-house usability tests. You’ll learn about the impact on your design decisions in context of government web standards, the search experience and ‘web 2.0’ concepts. Be prepared to be engaged while gaining practical, actionable knowledge! This workshop is for website managers, business analysts, interaction designers, information architects and anyone interested in the user experience.

Power to the People! workshop fees

Creating Passionate Users

Workshop presenters: Kathy Sierra, co-creator of the Head First “brain-friendly” book series and original founder of Javaranch.com

Full day workshop 9:00 am – 5:00 pm includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.

 What do cognitive scientists, game designers, neurobiologists, and filmmakers know about creating passionate users? How can we take better advantage of how the brain works to reach our users at a deep emotional level that inspires their enthusiasm and participation? The latest research in brain chemistry can help us figure that out. We’ll look at how to work around the brain’s natural filters that keep our messages from being seen, heard, and understood. We’ll explore the techniques of game developers to keep users engaged and wanting more, and we’ll look at how these techniques can be applied to virtually any kind of communication. Most importantly, we’ll look at the lessons learned from the organizations and individuals who’ve succeeded at turning on the hearts and brains of their users. Whether you’re looking to drive up participation on your web site, increase membership and involvement, or build a passionate “fan” base, the answer lies in reverse engineering the things for which people are passionate, and finding ways to implement those same attributes in what we offer, even for things we don’t normally associate with “games” or even “fun”.

 This workshop is for anyone who’d like to create more passionate, involved users.

 Creating Passionate Users workshop fees

The Politics of E-Government

Workshop presenters: Don Lenihan, CEO Crossing Boundaries National Council, www.crossingboundaries.ca plus others to be determined.

Half day workshop 9:00 am – 12:30 pm includes morning tea, it does not include lunch.

 E-government isn’t just about technology. As information fl ows more freely among the new digital infrastructure of networks, servers and websites, there are serious political questions on the horizon: does sharing personal information to deliver better services mean less privacy? Does ‘joining-up’ agencies mean muddied accountability for delivery of policy and programs? Does the growing capacity of agencies to gather public input for policy development and service improvement put pressure on our traditional models of democratic representation?

For over a decade, Don Lenihan, CEO of Canada’s Crossing Boundaries National Council and keynote speaker at GOVIS 2007, has been bringing together politicians and public servants to talk about the politics of e-government. Join him in a half-day ‘tactical’ workshop that will equip you with the means to effectively communicate and respond to politicians and agency leaders on the toughest e-government issues of the future.

The Politics of E-Government workshop fees

Unveiling the beauty of statistics with animations

Workshop presenter: Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Half day workshop 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm includes afternoon tea, it does not include lunch.

 Hans Rosling has spent two decades studying the links between poverty, agriculture and disease in remote rural areas across Africa. He-founded Gapminder (www.gapminder.org) together with his son and daughter-in-law to promote better use and understanding of statistics by converting international statistics into moving, interactive and enjoyable graphics. The aim is to promote a fact based world view through increase use and understanding of freely accessible public statistics. This workshop will review how different factors presently indicate that the web 2.0 concept will change the way statistics is used on the Internet. It is suggested that we will soon see a paradigm shift go from dissemination to access in user oriented services known as “web 2.0”. “Many eyes” and “Swivel” are recent examples of new technologies and services that emerge between the producers of statistics and the new type of users on the Internet. One strong force is the new opportunities for graphics that will unveil the beauty of statistics by converting boring numbers to enjoyable animations. Another factor is the enormous gain of a unifi ed format for time series that would enable comparability across sector, countries and administrative levels by a click of the mouse. It is foreseen that these changes will enhance the usefulness of the many billions of dollars that the world annually invest in production of statistics and by bringing more users to statistics and improving the productivity of statistics there should also be possible to bring more resources to statistics. This may however require the provision of data as public goods.

 Unveiling the Beauty of Statistics with Animation workshop fees

Day 1 – Innovation     Wednesday 9 May 2007

Please Note: The details of the programme may be subject to change

DAY 2      e-Government     Thursday, 10 May 2007

Please Note: The details of the programme may be subject to change

DAY 3     Futures     Friday 11 May 2007