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  • Why DPUP has a Sharing Value Guideline

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

    It’s important agencies develop and share information and insights with others in an inclusive, useful, respectful and valuable way.

  • 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.

  • Getting government to use plain English

    Found in Blog / Published 25 November 2014 / By Corinne Cordes ,

    In June 2014 the Department of Internal Affairs Digital Transformation team hosted the Assisted Digital Summit. Small business owners, community workers, public servants, and IT entrepreneurs came together to explore how to help people transact with government digitally, and how to provide alternatives for those who can’t.

    Although the need for government to use plain English (or plain language) falls outside the scope of Assisted Digital, people attending thought it was important, as everythin…

  • Improving government payroll systems

    Found in Digital government / Programmes and projects / Finished programmes and projects / Improving government payroll systems

    The Government Chief Digital Officer (GCDO) worked with Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment on a work programme to improve government’s payroll systems.

  • Numbers

    Found in Standards & guidance / Content, design and UX / Content design guidance / Writing style / Numbers

    How to write numbers, currency, dates, times, and phone numbers.

  • FormBuilder.govt

    Found in Products & services / Products and services A-Z / FormBuilder.govt

    FormBuilder.govt gives government agencies and councils a way to develop online service forms in days, not weeks or months.

  • Sharing Value: Share the insights

    Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) / Read the DPUP Guidelines / Sharing Value Guideline / Share the insights

    Think about who might benefit from the insights, what they might need and how they will have access.

  • Direct contracts with providers of public cloud services

    Found in Standards & guidance / Technology and architecture / Cloud services / Adopt public cloud services / Ways to buy public cloud services / Direct contracts with providers of public cloud services

    Your organisation might accept or negotiate contracts directly with the providers of public cloud services.

  • 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.

    Register to hel…

  • 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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