Search results for legislation as code
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How I Became an Open Data Convert
Found in Blog / Published 24 September 2012 / By Paul Stone ,
When I talk to my family and friends about open data…well, I soon stop. Their glazed look tells me I might as well save my breath. Just a couple of years ago I had no idea what open data was myself, then one day the penny dropped and I haven’t looked back. Luckily, there are lots of other enthusiasts out there to talk to.
So what IS open data? Well, in short, it’s data made available for reuse on the internet in a format that is non-proprietary and “machine readable”. Available for reuse means… -
Transparency and Choice: Help people to understand
Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) / Read the DPUP Guidelines / Transparency and Choice Guideline / Help people to understand
The Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) gives agencies advice to help people understand what information they’re being asked to provide, and why.
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Legislative barriers to digital service delivery
Found in Blog / Published 31 July 2018 / By Nadia Webster ,
SummaryThe Service Innovation Lab (the Lab) worked with the Parliamentary Counsel Office (PCO) and Stats NZ to identify legislative barriers to delivering digitally enabled government services. We ran two workshops with people from a range of public sector agencies, and asked them about legislative barriers they have experienced, and their ideas to reduce or eliminate them. Many barriers prevent improvements to service delivery at scale and the ability for service providers to respond to change.…
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What PMAF is
Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Privacy Maturity Assessment Framework (PMAF) and self-assessments / Learn about PMAF / What PMAF is
The Privacy Maturity Assessment Framework (PMAF) helps agencies understand their current level of privacy maturity in managing personal information, and identify where they can improve.
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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… -
LabPlus: how service integration supports end users
Found in Blog / Published 18 October 2017 / By Pia Andrews ,
TL;DRPeople are often curious about what we are doing and why. There’s a lot of interest from a range of organisations and individuals in our work, so I’d like to share a bit about the Service Integration (LabPlus) approach and how we work.
Below are some of the key challenges facing government in creating sustainable, relevant and responsive services, including the ability of governments everywhere to scale to the increasing complexity of the communities we serve. Then how our Service Integrat… -
Alpha
Found in Standards & guidance / Strategy and planning / Digital lifecycle / Alpha
Build services around the needs of users.
Think about the lifecycle of digital delivery.
During the alpha phase you'll be drafting and testing prototypes of aspects of your site or service, to gather input from users and knowledge about ways in which the problem statement can be addressed.
Your objective is to develop a basic working model. Base your efforts on your research in the discovery phase and shape it in response to what you hear from users and stakeholders. Try to whittle down… -
New Government Web Standards
Found in Blog / Published 01 July 2013 / By Jason Kiss ,
Effective 01 July 2013, new Government Web Standards replace the New Zealand Government Web Standards 2.0.
Developed in conjunction with disability communities, vendors, and representatives from State Sector organisations, the new Standards not only set clear and common requirements to guide the design and development of quality web content, but they also establish the minimum level of quality that websites are expected to meet in order to better ensure that Government is providing usable, acce… -
Digital View — Elisa Capecci, Data Scientist
Found in Blog / Published 16 July 2021 / By Elisa Capecci ,
Digital View presents the unique thoughts, ideas and experiences of a Digital Public Service team member. Our first subject in this series of blog posts is Elisa Capecci, a data scientist who works as part of the Business Intelligence team.
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LabPlus: Reusable component - Family Services Directory
Found in Blog / Published 02 March 2018 / By Pia Andrews ,
TL;DRThis blog post is a collaboration between the Service Innovation Lab, the Family Services Directory team from the Ministry of Social Development (MSD), the SmartStart team in the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) and Catalyst IT (the SmartStart developer). Our many thanks also to the data.govt.nz team for their support in making this success story. Please see the new SmartStart “Services near me” functionality for the first use case of our first reusable component from the Service Innova…
