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  • Digital Strategy 2.0
  • Summary of Submissions
  • Draft Digital Strategy 2.0
    • Executive Summary
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. The new digital environment
    • 3. The enablers: Connection
    • 4. The enablers: Confidence
    • 5. The enablers: Content
    • 6. The enablers: Collaboration
    • 7. Achieving our digital potential
    • 9. Evaluation
    • Glossary
  • 2007 Report on Progress
  • 2005 Digital Strategy
  • 2005 Digital Strategy – Summary
  • 2004 Draft Digital Strategy
• Digital Future Summit
• References
• Background on the Digital Strategy
• Glossary of Key Terms
• New Zealand Digital Content Strategy
• Mind Map

The 2005 Digital Strategy recognised the intrinsic value of digital technologies in helping communities
to achieve their social, cultural and economic aspirations.

The strategy has shown the importance of working collaboratively with community and voluntary sector organisations to share knowledge, interact in new and better ways, and to develop effective partnerships.

Community and voluntary sector organisations have developed new digital content and created innovative digital products and networks. These provide significant economic and social benefits, as well as opportunities for their volunteers to gain skills and confidence in using digital technologies.

The Community Partnership Fund provided seed funding for community initiatives. The CPF has helped build ICT capability in the community, with many more families and organisations joining the digital world.

Community workshops and meetings were held to prepare for the refresh of the digital strategy.
The following areas were proposed by community groups for further development:

• ongoing CPF funding for new digital projects and to help roll out some of the original projects nationally
  
  
• helping community and voluntary sector organisations to develop a community-wide digital strategy that will allow communities to benefit from the use of digital technologies
  
  
• giving communities better access to government (both agencies and Ministers) in order to express their ideas, share and learn about digital and technology-related initiatives, perhaps through a six-monthly forum focusing on digital communities.