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. See the Calendar for topics, dates, and venues. Recent presentations can be found on this page.

GOVIS listserves provide a members-only email discussion environment using Yahoo Groups. Follow  these links for membership criteria and subscription addresses

GOVIS is also piloting a Rich Media site, hosting presentations that can be streamed on demand to your browser. You can access these rich media presentations here.

Current Forums:

• Contact Centres
• Information Management
• Information Technology
• Security
• Websites

Recent Presentations:

Privacy myths and misunderstandings, January 29 2009
BOTPA (because of the Privacy Act) is often heard as a good reason not to do things - things that feel like common sense and improved service. But is the Act really the innovation-killer some might believe?

Katrine Evans from the Office of the Privacy Commission, (Assistant Commissioner Legal and Comms) shed light on the myths and realities of NZ privacy legislation.

Download slides and notes from Katrine's presentation (PDF 1,329 KB)

Multi-agency record keeping, January 22, 2009
This was an EDRMS interest group and GOVIS joint event. The problem we examined was ensuring accountability for maintaining the record of government when operating in complex, joined up ways to help deliver the best public services to New Zealanders. Records and IT need to make it work as simply as possible for staff and other users.

Download the bullet points from the discussion groups (PDF 25 KB or MS Word 80 KB) exploring the issues and possible solutions, including a strategic approach around common EDRMS open standards and meta-data.

Previous Presentations:

Derek Gill, Bill Ryan and Elizabeth Eppel, 16 October 2008
Researchers from the Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University spoke about the public sector working collaboratively to achieve extraordinary results in seemingly commonsense, everyday ways. Joined-up government is not about throwing out everything we currently know and do. It's about adding new ways of working so that better outcomes for Kiwis can be achieved more often and in a wider range of circumstances.

Ros Coote has compiled some notes from this Powerpoint-free presentation - your choice of MS Word (46 KB) or Adobe PDF (34 KB). Both versions include a link to the Institute of Policy Studies material.
Video of the event can be viewed on the GOVIS Rich Media website.

24 September 2008
Researchers from Victoria University of Wellington, delivered a summary of their findings following their investigation into how public servants within the New Zealand central government handle emails of significant organisational value.

Their presentation to GOVIS can be downloaded from here (PDF 263 KB) and the detailed findings are available on the Victoria University's Chair in E-Government website.

Darren Lee, 20 August 2008
Darren, of the Design, Development and Innovation Group at IRD, spoke on the topic "Service Design and the IRD Experience" (PDF 1288 KB)

Alison Holt, 16 July 2008
Alison 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.

Alison has kindly made her slides available (PDF 491 KB)
Video of the event can be viewed on the GOVIS Rich Media website

Grant Avery, 27 June 2008
Grant gave a briefing on progress and new products from the Gateway Project: You can download his presentation (PPT 1600 KB) to view
Grant manages the ICT Monitoring and Capability function in the SSC.

Janet Mazenier, 22 February 2008
Janet, a consultant to the ICT Branch of the State Services Commission, spoke on the current ICT skills shortage and its impacts on business, the ICT industry, the state sector and wider community. Her presentation can be downloaded as a PDF (1,629 KB) 

New Zealand Government Web Standards, 12 December 2006
Karen Burns, Web Standards Manager for the e-GIF, spoke to the forum about:

• what's changed in version 3 of the NZ Government Web Standards (formerly the web guidelines),
• the feedback from public consultation,
• what information agencies will get in the November government websites audit by the Office of Disability Issues
• developments coming up in the new year.

User centred design workshop with Usability Professionals Association of NZ, 13 September 2006

Internet EFTPOS, Simon Warner, 27 April 2006
Simon Warner, CEO of Centricom talks about a new payment option enabling real-time payment, which could provide greater choice for customers.

Online Deliberation, Dan Randow, 10 August 2005
Dan's Online Deliberation learnings are on a wiki where there is far more content than was covered at the forum - especially check the issues and follow the many links for an exploration of online participation. For interested folk, the ICT Branch also has a Participation project well worth watching.

The Implications of PDAs in a Government network environment , Speaker: GCSB, Thursday 28 April 2005

E-learning: Maintaining a balance between technology & communication
Support notes for slide 45 of the above presentation
John Sumner, Guide Tools, Wednesday 20 April 2005

Information Systems: What Audit NZ Looks For, And What is Found
Jim Obren, Associate Director Information Systems Audit and Assurance, Audit NZ, Thursday 25 November 2004

Wireless Networking, Security Issues with the implementation of IEEE 802.11x, Speaker: GCSB, Thursday 23 September 2004

Email Flight Data Recorders
Lawrence Russell, AfterMail Limited, Thursday 16 September 2004

Technologies and standards that support e-Learning (and URLs)
Nolen Smith, Inspire Group, Tuesday 3rd August 2004

Protecting the Information Commons
The Information Commons, Mike Pearson, SSC
The Wellington Internet Exchange (WIX), Hamish Macewan, CityLink
Next Generation Internet for the Public Service, Tone Borren, LANLines
Wednesday 18th August 2004

Ministerial Workflow Systems in Government Agencies
The Treasury Ministerial Workflow System, Annette Vogt, Treasury
Statistics NZ Ministerial Tracking System, Jolene Kelly, Statistics NZ
Ministerial Electronic Tracking and Information System, Steve Botica, Ministry of Education
Coordinators notes from the session held on Friday 30th July 2004

Remote Access - what works & what doesn't
Remote network and email access, Speaker: GCSB
"Secure" Remote Access, Craig McGregor, Treasury
Remote Access Enabling Technologies, John Hanson, MFish
Thursday 22nd July 2004

Advancing Security (very large PDF - 25 MBs)
Securing the Enterprise (very large PDF - 12 MBs)
Didier Vandenbroek, Microsoft NZ, Friday 9th July 2004

IM in small agencies: what to do when there aren't many of you
Notes from the GOVIS IM/KM Forum, Wednesday 19 May 2004

National Library's approach to digital preservation, Steve Knight; National Library of New Zealand, Wednesday 28th April 2004

Introducing a new system to your organisation
Introducing automated workflow to your organisation
Matt O'Mara, Archives New Zealand, Wednesday 24th March 2004

How to find and care for a community of practice, Neill Allan, Knowledge Management Consultant, Wednesday 10th March 2004

Continuum: The Future of Government Recordkeeping, Alison Midwinter and Philippa Tucker, Archives New Zealand, 14 August 2003

Intrusion Monitoring, Colin Haxton, Arena Consulting, 24 July 2003
References

• An Evening with Berferd, Bill Cheswick, AT&T Bell Laboratories
• Evolution, Rain Forest Puppy

RSS News Feeds, Ferry Hendrikx, E-Government Unit, 10 July 2003

Next Generation Networks and Convergence, Russell Locke, Telecom NZ Ltd, 5-June-2003

E-health and the E-citizen: Implementing e-govt through developing e-health communities, Peter Aagaard, MoH & Tony Cooke, Hutt Valley DHB, 15-May-03

E-government forum: Justice Sector Information Strategy - Henrietta Hall & Philippa Fogarty, Ministry of Justice. 20 March 2003

Security forum: My User, My Enemy - David Fitzgerald-Irons, Statistics New Zealand. 27 March 2003

GOVIS forum Electronic Transaction Act 2003 - Andrew McCallum, Ministry of Economic Development. 1 May 2003

GOVIS Forum - Microsoft Purchasing Agreement - Alison Fleming, Department of Internal Affairs. 3rd April 2003

IT Forum - GoProcure - Tim Waldron, E-government Unit. 17th April 2003

Local Government E-government Strategy: Mike Harte, Dunedin City Council, E-government forum, April 2003

Content Management systems : Part One - the Tools. December 2002

• XML and Content Management : practical examples delivering business benefits prepared by Russell Bugden, Infinity
• Comparing Content Management tools prepared by Kim Lumsden, Application Consultant, Telstra Clear
• So You Think You Need a Content Management System? compiled by David Rush, Website Co-ordinator, SPARC

Biting the bullet: The electronic document/records management experience

WAI: Friend or Foe ??? - 21 Feb 2002
 

Forum Coordinators

GOVIS Forums are a major contributor to our goals of cooperation, liaison, and information sharing between GOVIS member agencies.

If you are interested in becoming a GOVIS Forum Coordinator or want more information please contact
Trudy Rankin, GOVIS Forum Liaison
Phone: 04 495 2842
e-mail: forum-liaison@govis.org.nz )

For a description of the role and duties, click here.
 

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