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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

For partnerships to succeed, collaboration must be driven by the participants. The government has consulted with ICT sector representatives and broader interest groups, community organisations and individuals and agreed to support the establishment of an ‘overarching forum’ for members to work with each other and collectively with the government on digital strategy related initiatives.

Funding of $825,000 will be provided for the design, establishment and initial operation of the forum for each of the first two years (2008-09 and 2009-10). Annual funding of $400,000 will be provided in the following years.

The forum’s members will represent communities, local government, industry, Mäori, researchers and academia. Its purpose and functions will be to:

• initiate, coordinate and support collaborative projects, with or without government input and funding, to address digital issues, such as community-based ICT skills or building ICT capability in voluntary and charitable organisations
  
  
• provide a forum for dialogue with government and other stakeholders on digital issues
  
  
• facilitate the sharing of knowledge and lessons from successful projects.

The forum is likely to consist of a national council of all members, an elected executive board, with
an independent chair, an executive director and a small secretariat. The substantive work of the forum, especially projects and advice on specific issues, will be carried out by working groups comprising sub-groups of forum members, supported by the executive director and staff.

Please share your views with us on this body as it develops further. In particular, what would you like to see the forum focus its work programme on?