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All welcome at the Government Digital Accessibility Forum 2025
Found in Blog / Published 14 April 2025 / By Katherine Barcham ,
Register to attend the 2025 Government Digital Accessibility Forum (GDAF) happening on May 15.
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Access to Information: Help people to ask for their information
Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) / Read the DPUP Guidelines / Access to Information Guideline / Help people to ask for their information
The Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) recommends making people feel confident about requesting access to their personal information.
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Assurance report executive summaries
Found in Standards & guidance / Governance / System Assurance / GCDO Assurance Services Panel / Assurance report executive summaries
The executive summary may be the only part of an assurance report the Senior Responsible Owner or governance body reads, so it is critical that it contains what they need to know to make well informed decisions.
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Transparency and Choice: Match the approach to the context
Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) / Read the DPUP Guidelines / Transparency and Choice Guideline / Match the approach to the context
Consider how to provide good, safe opportunities for service users to understand and ask questions about the collection and use of their personal information. Think broadly about how you approach this.
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Government Digital Accessibility Forum 2024
Found in News
New Zealand’s second Government Digital Accessibility Forum (GDAF) was held on 16 May 2024 on Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
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Part I: Literacy and government websites – to the data!
Found in Blog / Published 16 February 2015 / By Annika Naschitzki ,
Voices from the communityShe stood there — arms crossed, frowning and shaking her head. I walked over to her. “Hello” I said, “What’s happening? Why the frown?”
She replied, “You’re pushing people on the internet, and you don’t even care what happens to the ones who can’t keep up.”
This was how our journey began. An upset librarian from South Auckland at LIANZA 2014.
Three of us were running an exhibit stand for Govt.nz at the conference. For three days, we heard similar stories from all over… -
Channelling Sherlock Holmes
Found in Blog / Published 01 May 2013 / By Victoria Wray ,
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
A Scandal in Bohemia
You’ll be glad to hear that we, like Sherlock Holmes, are not going to pick our content for the Beta newzealand.govt.nz website with the help of gut instinct or divination. In line with our commitment to being user-centred, we are using evidence of what people want or what needs fixing to give us a first cut of priority services… -
Tackling the digital divide during COVID-19
Found in Showcase
COVID-19 lockdowns revealed the extent and impact of digital exclusion when schools had to pivot to distant learning. The Ministry of Education introduced a range of solutions to bridge the digital gap.
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CWP update: developments through the co-funded pool
Found in Blog / Published 18 September 2014 / By Bene Anderson ,
In this post I'll talk about a range of features and improvements that have recently been delivered through the co-funded development pool. I'll also talk about automation, which is one of the main themes in the technical evolution of the Common Web Platform (CWP).
Before I get started, I want to explain what the co-funded pool is. Included in the monthly fees for using CWP, is a contribution of hours into the pool. Agencies raise ideas to improve CWP. These might be new features, imp… -
Platform as a Service
Found in Standards & guidance / Technology and architecture / Cloud services / About public cloud services / Service models for public cloud / Platform as a Service
Over the internet, access providers’ operating systems and applications using Platform as a Service (PaaS).
