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• Wellington joins Australian smart city body

  ​Wellington has become the first non-Australian city to join the Australian Smart Communities Association (ASCA), under its recently created international affiliate cities category.

• Leading through change: Tales from a CDO and a CIO

  Chris Buxton of Stats NZ and Ed Overy of KiwiRail share lessons learned from recent ICT projects that can apply across sectors.

• CIO upfront: Leading through fear and other lessons for digital strategists

  You’ll never teach your people to learn from their mistakes if you’re afraid of publicly making mistakes, writes Matt Mansell.

• ​The government ministry with a sole ICT staff member

  Paul Setefano of the Ministry of Pacific Peoples talks about running a very lean ICT team in the heart of Wellington.

• One of the biggest government CIO roles to be vacated next month

  One of the biggest government CIO roles to be vacated next month

• Movers and shakers: An ‘interesting transition’ from CEO to CIO

  Angela Nash of REANNZ talks about growing one’s career and giving back through mentoring.

• NZ Government paves the way for the next generation of public sector IT and digital leaders

  Government CTO Tim Occleshaw welcomes the first 15 GovTech Talent graduates

• NZ Government secures major agreement with HPE

  “This agreement aligns with our strategy of New Zealand Government acting as a single customer and will support government agencies in embracing the move to the cloud,” says NZ Government CTO Tim Occleshaw
  

• NZ Racing Board takes $2.7B betting business to the cloud

  “Jetbet was at risk every day in its former home in Petone as our data centre fast [was] no longer fit for purpose,” says NZRB CEO John Allen.

• Inland Revenue prepares for $25M information knowledge management system

  Next phase of the project will cover analytics, says Greg James, deputy commissioner transformation

• ​The 4 pillars of a confident and resilient digital government: Gartner

  "Maintaining an ongoing dialogue on risk should allow the CIO to keep the digital government programme on track,” says Gartner’s Rick Holgate

• NZ Parliamentary Service utilises Blackberry software for BYODs

  CIO Michael Middlemiss cites growing demand from staff for a secure file sharing platform and to do more work on mobile devices and tablets.
  

• Programme steers millennials to be part of the government’s ICT and digital strategy

  Participants to the inaugural ICT and Digital GovtTech Talent Graduate Programme will work across three of seven central government agencies for two years.

• InternetNZ cites ‘most problematic’ areas of the Government’s Intelligence and Security Bill

  ‘What are the actual security risks we face? After 180 pages of words we couldn’t see a clear case made about why more security and spying is needed.’
  

• ​Office of the Privacy Commissioner launches online service for queries on privacy questions

  "People will be able to access information that is relevant to them in a convenient way without having to join a phone queue to a call centre,” says Privacy Commissioner John Edwards.