Realising the Benefits
Communities
To create an inclusive society, ICT must become embedded in community infrastructures and processes. Individual citizens as well as community and voluntary groups need skills, motivation and support to become confident ICT users able to access, process, create and apply electronic information in ways that enhance the quality of their lives.
Businesses
The potential to create significant value for businesses in all sectors, whether as efficiency gains or revenue from new products and services, lies in using ICT as a tool to drive process or product innovations. It is the innovative use of information that the technology enables, rather than the technology itself that is critical.
A thriving ICT sector, with an optimal mix of local and multi-national firms, is an important part of the New Zealand economy and society, and has a major part to play in the development of other high value-added service industries. The sector supplies needed skills and applications, and ensures that new technology and knowledge are available to New Zealand firms.
The Government
Realising the benefits of ICT will enable the New Zealand government to transform itself, to deliver better services, greater cost-effectiveness and efficiency, and improved participation for its citizens. The government will act as an exemplar to citizens and businesses by its innovative approach to the supply of services.
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