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  • Making personal information safe for reuse

    Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Manage a privacy programme / Making personal information safe for reuse

    A range of methods can be applied to personal information to make it safe for reuse.

  • Stop Starting, Start Finishing

    Found in Blog / Published 23 August 2018 / By Amanda Baker ,

    Stop Starting, Start Finishing. Does Wellington need another tech meetup? Probably not. But we started one anyway.

    “Stop Starting, Start Finishing” is a meetup for developers and testers working for government. So far there are around 12 attendees and even though we are from different organisations we all working with same framework (Silverstripe) on the same infrastructure (the Common Web Platform or CWP).

    Sounds exciting, right? Wrong.The reality is that we spent the first meetup talking abo…

  • FYI: Brasil is unlocking the value of government information and data

    Found in Blog / Published 09 July 2015 / By Susan Diamond ,

    What’s the big deal?Governments around the world released over a million datasets open in the last decade. The aim was to spur the creation of jobs and the realisation of changes in society, including increased government accountability and consumer protection, more transparency in costs to the health system and more resilience against climate change.

    Why is it important?The analysis of these data, if done right, can help policymakers make better decisions, but they are just beginning to explor…

  • Removing or archiving content

    Found in Standards & guidance / Governance / Managing online channels / Web information and data lifecycle / Removing or archiving content

    When online material reaches the end of its useful life, you need to decide how it will be archived or otherwise disposed of in accordance with a Disposal Authority.

  • CWP Case Studies: Sport NZ

    Found in Blog / Published 19 May 2015 / By Anthony Hawkins ,

    The Sport NZ website has been on the Common Web Platform (CWP) for about a year. The move to CWP underpinned a bigger project: to improve the user experience (UX), web standards, project agility and to provide technical flexibility. We also saw it as a way to amalgamate sites.

    Subsites on Sport NZ

    The Sports Tribunal, which is a separate and independent body that we fund, is our subsite. The Tribunal decides what happens to an athlete who tests positive for something they shouldn’t, or alleged…

  • Who DPUP is for

    Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) / Learn about DPUP / Who DPUP is for

    The Data Protection and Use Policy’s (DPUP’s) focus on respect, trust and transparency leads to better quality services that can benefit all New Zealanders.

  • A more future-focused accessibility standard

    Found in Blog / Published 07 July 2025 / By Katherine Barcham ,

    The Web Accessibility Standard will be replaced by the Digital Accessibility Standard. This will include accessibility for non-web-based documents and mobile applications as well as websites.

  • 9. Design for our unique constitutional and cultural environment

    Found in Standards & guidance / Digital Service Design Standard / Current principles / 9. Design for our unique constitutional and cultural environment

    Co-design and co-create to include Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique cultural, geographical political context from the beginning.
    Recognise the legal, constitutional responsibilities, principles, and obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
    Engage with users to create services that are culturally inclusive, with particular reference to Te reo Māori and Tikanga concepts.
    Design services recognising the diverse and growing complexity of cultural and linguistic expectations of citizens.

    New standard pr…

  • Why DPUP has a Purpose Matters Guideline

    Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) / Read the DPUP Guidelines / Purpose Matters Guideline / Why DPUP has a Purpose Matters Guideline

    A clear purpose helps agencies work out if they need to collect people’s personal information and if so, how much, and if this use or sharing of that information is lawful and appropriate.

  • Open Government Partnership

    Found in Digital government / International partnerships / Open Government Partnership

    The Open Government Partnership is an international initiative where signatory countries work to be more open, accountable and responsive to citizens. Using new technologies is a part of this.

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