| Content | Facilitate a digital content industry forum and develop a strategy to identify and leverage digital design opportunities across all sectors. | Develop common metadata and interoperability standards between sets of geospatial information. | Develop common metadata and interoperability standards between sets of geospatial information. | |
| Develop common metadata and interoperability standards between sets of geospatial information. | Develop National Content Strategy: content discovery and access initiatives. | Develop National Content Strategy: content development initiatives. | |
| Develop National Content Strategy: content discovery and access initiatives. | Infomediaries: fund broadband access, equipment upgrades, technical and staff training, and additional staff for public libraries and Citizens' Advice Bureaux (CABx). | | |
| Confidence and capability (incl safety and security) | Expand regional partnerships to raise awareness of ICT: technologies and applications, their uses, and safety and security issues. | Expand regional partnerships to raise awareness of ICT: technologies and applications, their uses, and safety and security issues. | Develop a "Transforming Government" awareness programme. | Pass anti-spam legislation. |
| Raise awareness of cyber-safety and security, health risks and environmental risks. | Raise awareness of cyber-safety and security, health risks and environmental risks. | Develop an integrated e-learning strategy. | New Zealand Police E-Crime Strategy. |
| Develop a "Transforming Government" awareness programme. | Develop a "Transforming Government" awareness programme. | | Develop opportunities to recycle ICT components and mitigate environmental damage from ICT waste. |
| "Fit for the Future" management development. | Continue / expand successful training programmes, e.g. Computing for Free, Computers in Homes, and projects implemented under the Ministry of Education's Digital Horizons Strategy. | | Fund a research programme on cyber safety and e-crime. Investigate mechanisms for confidential reporting of e-crime. |
| Establish a quality assurance framework that includes training for technical planning. | Establish a quality assurance framework that includes training for technical planning. | | |
| Develop an integrated ICT awareness and capability programme (integrated with the current e-Business Roadmap). | Fund a national awareness campaign comprising a series of digital stories across all sectors. | | |
| Fund a national awareness campaign comprising a series of digital stories across all sectors. | Develop a framework for the acquisition of ICT skills and career development. | | |
| Develop a framework for the acquisition of ICT skills and career development. | Develop life-long e-learning opportunities using the emerging Integrated e-Learning as a basis. | | |
| | Provide community-based technical support services to assist community groups to plan and effectively use digital technologies. | | |
| | Set up an 0800 help line to provide first-tier technical support for communities. | | |
| Connection | Raise awareness of broadband. | Complete Project PROBE (all schools and communities will have access to broadband). | Implement an Advanced Network linking New Zealand's research and higher education institutions. | Monitor and report on the whole telecommunications environment. |
| Investigate opportunities to use the Project PROBE model to attract investment into remote areas. | Investigate opportunities to use the Project PROBE model to attract investment into remote areas. | 95% of all health and disability facilities will have access to a minimum of 10Mbps broadband. | Commerce Commission to investigate whether mobile phone call termination charges should be regulated. |
| Support regional fora (such as e-Regions) to aggregate broadband demand in regions. | Raise awareness of broadband. | Achieve broadband targets. | Review the resources of the Commerce Commission. |
| Achieve broadband targets. | Fund the delivery of broadband access for all public libraries and CABx. | | Benchmark and monitor the quality and performance of New Zealand's telecommunications infrastructure. |
| | Support regional fora (such as e-Regions) to aggregate broadband demand in regions. | | Ministry of Economic Development to monitor the effectiveness of the Telecommunications Act in achieving the purpose statement: to serve the long-term benefits of consumers. |
| Promote and expand computer recycling projects such as Computer Access New Zealand (CANZ). | | | |
| Government funding will support the establishment of e-Centres in community locations, such as marae, libraries and homework centres. | | | |
| Achieve broadband targets. | | | |
| Building the foundations | Enhance SMEs' transactions with government (e.g. tax payments and calculations, ACC, statistical returns) so that they are easier and cheaper to complete. | Develop an e-Pasifika Strategy to encourage and extend the use of ICT within New Zealand's Pacific communities. | Report on inter-agency and local government collaboration. | |
| Promote Youth Enterprise to increase and sustain businesses run by young New Zealanders. | Promote community-based models of excellence in the use of ICT. | Develop a health-sector Information Systems Strategic Plan. | |
| Respond to the ICT Taskforce recommendations on government procurement. | Establish a short-term contestable fund for strategic ICT partnerships to progress technology planning and ICT capability building within communities. | Develop an Education Sector Architecture Framework. | |
| Develop a greater global presence for our ICT sector. | To replace the short-term contestable fund, a cross-sector foundation will be established, responsible for the procurement and distribution of resources, providing advice, practical support and funding for community technology projects. | Benchmark the current e-government strategy against the e-government programmes of other OECD countries. | |
| Address the barriers to growth of the ICT sector identified in the 2003 ICT Taskforce report. | Develop a community-specific ICT training programme to promote ICT uptake and use in community and voluntary organisations. | Develop common standards across government (common architecture, ICT infrastructure, data standards). | |
| | Provide communities with the tools they need to map their assets and develop partnerships to support the community uptake and use of ICT. | | |
| | Create a national shared ICT infrastructure for community and voluntary groups. | | |
| | Develop a National Asset Map using data available from central, regional and local government agencies, and the community and voluntary sectors. | | |
| Timeframe to implement actions | Short-term (1-2 years). | | | |
| Medium-term (2-5 years). | | | |