Directions and Priorities

The Directions and Priorities for Government ICT is a medium-term strategy for how central government will more collectively lead the use, development and purchasing of government ICT over the next three years.There are five Directions and fifteen Priorities - these fit within a governance structure that goes right to the very top levels of Government:

  • Ministers and agency chief executives make strategic decisions together about investment priorities and funding.
  • A Government Common ICT Capability Roadmap provides a combined 'line of sight' across a portfolio of services, projects and new initiatives.
  • Agencies can make products and services available to one another as part of their core business.

 

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  • About the Directions and Priorities

    The Directions and Priorities for Government ICT is a medium-term strategy for how central government will more collectively lead the use, development and purchasing of government ICT over the next three years.

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  • Governance for the Directions and Priorities

    The New Zealand government has set up committees and planning groups to lead and govern cross-government ICT for the State sector.

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  • Ministerial Committee on Government ICT

    RoleSet the strategic direction for Government ICTSet ICT investment prioritiesGain early oversight and understanding of ICT investment plans.As an expert sub-committee of Cabinet, ministers will provide Cabinet with informed advice on ICT innovation and expenditure across government.

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  • ICT Strategy Group

    The ICT Strategy Group is driving the Directions and Priorities agenda on cross-government information and communication technology.  The State Services Commissioner appoints the chief executive members of the ICT Strategy group.

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  • Data and Information Re-use Chief Executives Steering Group

    The Data and Information Re-use Chief Executives Steering Group leads and drives a wide-ranging work programme to make non-personal government-held data and information more widely available so that people, communities, and businesses can use and re-use it, and to protect personal, classified and confidential information.It communicates through the ICT Strategy Group to the Ministerial Committee on ICT.

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  • ICT Council

    The Government ICT Council members are senior government CIOs and independent subject matter experts, appointed by the ICT Strategy Group.

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  • Planning Groups

    Common ICT Capabilities are clustered into domains of related functional and subject matter areas.

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  • Supply Reference Group

    The Supply  Reference Group is looking at supply planning for Roadmap initiatives and the Roadmap in general.All the planning groups include a person from the Supply Reference Group and the Government Enterprise Architecture Group for coordination between architecture, supply, and initiatives.

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  • Government Enterprise Architecture Reference Group (GEAG)

    The Government Enterprise Architecture Group is the lead advisor to the ICT Council and ICT Strategy Group on the architecture blueprint for cross-government ICT. Role and Function The Government Enterprise Architecture Group will, under the direction of the ICT Council: Lead the development of the All-of-Government Capability Delivery Model (AoG CDM) and related processes for approval by the ICT Council (the AoG CDM is a lifecycle view of common capability from concept to retirement including governance touchpoints and documentation re

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