5. The enablers: Content

5.3 Digital culture actions

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The government is responding to the digital culture challenges by:

Action Contributes to priority Lead agency Timing Budget
Switching to digital television. The analogue switch-off date will be in 2012 or when 75% of New Zealand households have a set-top box, whichever comes first Improving the creation, discovery and use of New Zealand-grown content Ministry for Culture and Heritage and Ministry of Economic Development 2012 or when household penetration is above 75% At present, within existing baselines
Reviewing the regulatory environment for digital broadcasting and new digital media. As above As above 2008 Baseline
Launching the second Maori channel - Te Reo As above Te Puni Kokiri 2008 Baseline
Developing NZ On Screen. An online portal for access to archival New Zealand audiovisual content As above NZ On Air 2008 Baseline
Delivering Digital New Zealand. Programme to progressively enable communities around New Zealand to connect with, access an create content for digital repositories that reflect their rich histories, stories, cultures and environments As above National Library of New Zealand By 2011 $3.3 million between 2007-11
Developing the Kiwi Research Information Service. Nationwide network of research repositories to ensure New Zealand's publicly funded research results are available online As above As above 2008 Baseline
Implementing the Digital Sustainability Strategy. A strategy to ensure that digital public records are appropriately maintained by government agencies and are accessible as public archives for as long as they are needed. As above Archives New Zealand By 2011 $1.9 million between 2007-11

 

 

2 Responses to "5.3 Digital culture actions"
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Looking over the topics above its obvious the NZ labour party need to get their hooks out of the NZ free to air media and let the market forces decide what content is broadcast instead of pandering to political niceties and pandering to ethnic minority's with public money!
Labour have already sabotaged TVNZ digital plans once, Thank god for Sky digital.
James Brollen
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:57 PM
Some other concrete actions that would improve accessibility to government information include:

(1) Use of microformats to mark up information on government web pages - so it is machine readable and can be reused for other purposes, e.g. http://www.epa.gov/enviro/wme/

(2) Provision of more granular information, as RSS feeds, so that communities can automate the collection and publication of topics of interest, e.g. http://www.everyblock.com/

(3) Development of a data portal, e.g. http://data.octo.dc.gov/
mike(p)
Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:39 PM