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LabPlus: Rates Rebates Prototyping
Found in Blog / Published 08 May 2018 / By Siobhan McCarthy ,
SummaryIn this post we are talking about prototyping and testing with people within the Rates Rebates Alpha. This post steps through the design prototyping approach to provide a practical understanding of what is involved, noting that all work is based on extensive user research already conducted around the challenge of rates rebates. The prototyping gave us a chance to test several quite different approaches to the rebate to find what worked best for people.
Rates rebates are a subsidy that gi… -
Turning the rules of government into code using OpenFisca
Found in Blog / Published 12 June 2018 / By Matti Schneider , Nadia Webster ,
At a recent Service Innovation Open Lab session, Matti Schneider presented OpenFisca, an open source computational law engine. Matti, who worked as the OpenFisca Product Owner for the French government, explained how the tool works and its benefits for public service delivery and evidence based policy development through modelling.
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Domain Integrity project
Found in Blog / Published 09 July 2013 / By Rowan Smith ,
We all know the importance of creating an environment in which New Zealanders can interact safely with government online and in which their protected information can be safely and reliably handled, and that the government domain is fit for purpose. ‘Fit for purpose’ means it meets the following fundamental requirements:
Its functionality and design supports users to easily complete the purpose for which the site or service is designed.
It is usable regardless of device, technical ability, famil… -
Govt.nz - how we create our content
Found in Blog / Published 31 January 2014 / By Alison Jack ,
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
I’m sorry I wrote you such a long letter. I didn’t have time to write you a short one.
Blaise Pascal
Making content short, concise and easy to read is hard.
The content process we’re developing for Govt.nz includes examples of good practice from across government — which is to say that we stole and have reused some of the best processes we could find.
We’ve previously written about how we designed conte… -
Mobility Marketplace
Found in Showcase
The NZ Transport Agency has created the world's 1st open Mobility Marketplace using a real-time data processing platform.
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Victim of Crime Life Event: Service Design nitty gritty
Found in Blog / Published 08 June 2018 / By Emma Martin ,
Guest blog post from Emma Martin, New Zealand Police.
Greetings again from the Victim of Crime Life Event (VoCLE) team based at Police National Headquarters. In our last post, we provided some background about our project. In this post, we’ll share some of what we’ve learned about victims of crime, in the context of integrated service delivery.
People may not see themselves as ‘victims’‘Victim’ has a specific legal meaning within the Victims’ Right Act 2002. But the term may not always match p… -
Better Rules Hack - Wellington
Found in Blog / Published 15 June 2018 / By Nadia Webster ,
The Service Innovation Lab (the Lab) partnered up with Legal Hackers NZ and Accenture to run the Wellington Better Rules Hack as part of Techweek’18. This weekend event explored the ideas and practice of turning legislation into machine-consumable ‘digital rules’ that can be reused and integrated across domains for the benefit of government, businesses, individuals, and communities. Around 40 people attended the event, which was hosted by Assurity and sponsored by Accenture, Catalyst Cloud, Ensp…
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Interest in the Service Innovation Lab from far and near
Found in Blog / Published 09 August 2018 / By Linda Sanders ,
Wellington’s cross-agency Service Innovation Lab is attracting interest from as far away as New York and Poverty Bay in New Zealand.
Former White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Beth Noveck met kindred spirits when she visited the cross-government SI Lab on 31 July.
Two days later it was the turn of Helen Potiki, Director of the Department of Internal Affairs Chief Executive’s office.
Helen, who originally hails from Tolaga Bay, wanted to know how the work being done at the Lab could ma…
