Digital Strategy

The Digital Strategy is the government's - and the community's - vision for New Zealand to become a world-leader at using information and communications technology (ICT) to realise our economic, social, and cultural goals. Initiatives include the Community Partnership Fund.

The strategy was developed by central and local government with wide community and business consultation and launched in May 2005. It provides a framework to encourage "smart" use and uptake of ICTs by communities, businesses and government.

This Hot Topic focuses on the communities strand of the Digital Strategy, incorporating the earlier 'Connecting Communities' strategy. The main Digital Strategy website is at http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz.

News  (Full list of 30 news articles)

• Funding round for Digital Strategy Community Partnership Fund open

  Date added: 8 October 2008

• 2008/2009 funding round of the Community Partnership Fund to open 6 October

  The 2008/2009 funding round of the Community Partnership Fund will open 6 October 2008.
  Date added: 1 August 2008

• Consultation on Draft Digital Strategy 2.0 extended

  Date added: 8 May 2008

Background  (Full list of 6 articles)

• Addressing the ‘Digital Divide’ in Aotearoa New Zealand

  This concise and useful background article was written for the Finnish Encyclopedia of Digital Government by Marilyn Head, who helped in the drafting of the Digital Strategy. The opinions are her own.
  Date updated: 26 November 2005

• Connecting Communities Strategy

  The Connecting Communities strategy aims to increase the ability of communities to access, participate in, and efficiently use Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
  Date updated: 11 May 2006

• Newly released research report has lessons for future Digital Strategy projects

  A recently released report on four 'Digital Opportunities' school computer related projects describes implementation problems encountered and advises on how to avoid them. It reinforces the need for ...
  Date updated: 12 January 2006

Publications, documents and resources  (Full list of 10 items)

• Web content - hints and tips

  For content to be useful, it must be readable, relevant and reliable, usable and accessible, and site and content must be discoverable. These notes are memory joggers, with links to more detail and ...
  Date updated: 28 March 2008

• Australian Community Connectivity papers

  Parallels can be drawn between the needs of Community ICT in New Zealand and Australia. Here you'll find a number of useful recent papers, case studies, community consultation and presentations from ...
  Date updated: 28 March 2008

• Community ICT research

  This page links to research on the use of Information and Communications Technologies in communities, computer literacy, the Digital Divide, Digital Opportunities etc. See also the Connecting ...
  Date updated: 25 August 2005

Websites  (Full list of 2 links)

• Date added: 29 April 2008

• Date added: 19 November 2008

• Websites

  Websites relating to the Digital Strategy.
  Date added: 19 November 2008