Summary of Digital Development Forum

Discussion Groups

Business Sector

Celebrating Success

• Practical examples/tools of succesful use of technology to simplify and add value.

• Increase understanding and ability to absorb faster (so dynamic) i.e. get the stories told.

• Ahah factor. “I got it.”

• This is training / workplace development.

• Many disagree with idea of capital breaks to encourage IT.

Strategic Sector Solutions

•Focus

•Cooperative view of what and how

•Working in sector groups

Information Sharing•Facilitate meaningful information

sharing to encourage collaboration.

•What will each party do to add value?

•Engagement with multinationals. Microsoft: what can we do to help?

• And research providers.

Catalysts•Is there a compelling event to act as

a catalyst?

•Soft sticks, e.g. a certification criteria; IO Directors; Digital driver’s licence.

•E.g. a govt dept has a surcharge for trading on line but not physical – that is a disincentive.

Creative & Cultural

Content Licensing Framework

•education / communication

•consideration of alternatives

•policy, legislative, industry, implications

New Economic Model(s)

•investment in digital content (and return on investment)

•what is the easiest way for users to pay?

Protect + develop the public space

•demonstrate

•celebrate

ICT

Confidence

•Digital Literacy and Education

•Lack of public awareness of digital issues

•Define options of what the ICT profession could be

•Deliverers: DDOC to lead, organise, and coordinate with key stakeholder groups.

Capability•Digital literacy and education

through society

•Need a good career story in ICT

•Need skills in organisations so they can articulate what they want

•Deliverers: DDC coordinate and lead: NZCS, ICT Networks, Govt Agencies

Content

•IP framework for digital content in NZ

•Liberation of publicly generated information

•Raising awareness of the implications of IP framework

•Deliverers: DDC; Media; Parliament and Government; sector organisations

Connection

•Ubiquitous interoperable affordable broadband

•(Note: what are the trade-offs to achieving this?)

•Deliverers: Operators, Carriers, Investors, Government/Local Government, Consumers

Local Government

ConnectivityNational Plan

•Standards, e.g. subdivisions, equity of access

•Ownership structures, e.g. JV company (private, LG, govt share)

Bandwidth, Cost, Reliability

•Connectivity issue

Training Programmes

•Train the trainers

•Business capability

•Unlock CPF activities to get ripple effect

Education

Education

Importance of content/ heritage

Capability

Life-long/ life-wide

Transformation

Passive/ vs. active roles

Digital divide/ equality

of opportunity/access

Connections & collaborations

participation Future careers

Digital literacy

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Funding/Time

• Provide time to decouple the link for outcomes to short timeframes

• Provide higher risk/trust funding model with longer term outcomes/views

• Allow people to ‘try things’ and fail - support sensible business cases

• Spend money once to achieve outcomes across all areas of education

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Knowledge Sharing

• Encourage wider collaboration and sharing of knowledge

• Recognise that the education network is widely dispersed

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Capability Building

• Provide support for organisations and institutions across the continuum of provision for capability building in the sector

Digitalliteracy

Specialist ICT careers

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Communityand Volunteer

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