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• 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.

• ‘Cloud fit’: ACC accelerates move to cloud

  We now have 95 per cent of our infrastructure as well as 80 to 90 per cent of our server environment virtualised, says Don Montgomery, technology architect at ACC.

• Top 10 tech trends government CIOs should plan for in 2016

  CIOs will need to be front and centre in providing advice to policymaking bodies and working with industry experts who can consult on options and impacts of these technology trends, advises Rick Howard of Gartner.

• Movers and shakers: Rees Ward heads Wellington ICT Graduate School

  The school, a partnership between Victoria University, Whitireia and the Wellington Institute of Technology, will be launched this week.
  

• The CIO who ‘lives and breathes spatial’

  "Spatial technology is like mobile - it can be embedded and integrated everywhere,” says tech evangelist Matti Seikkula of e-Spatial.