ECAT: Partnership in Action
The Strategy emphasised the importance of partnership between government, business and the wider community. Leadership is identified as being the shared responsibility of government and business.
To advance this partnership the Government set up the E-Commerce Action Team (ECAT) and the ECAT Network. Members of ECAT are drawn from key sector organisations. Their mandate collectively and individually is to promote and identify initiatives to advance the uptake of e-commerce in all sectors. To this end, each sector representative has prepared a Six-Quarter Action Plan identifying the issues for that sector and a programme for action.
The E-Commerce Regional Events in particular have been successful partnership initiatives. These have all been organised by local groups, with support from the Ministry of Economic Development.
The six regional broadband pilots recently announced by the Government are also being advanced in partnership with the regions. These are designed to support initiatives driven by the communities themselves and by the suppliers.
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