Standards / compliance

This section contains ICT standards and related standards that are applicable to government agencies.

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  • Web publishing

    The New Zealand Government Web Standards set a number of requirements for public sector websites in New Zealand. Their major focus is enhancing government website accessibility for people with disabilities.

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  • NZ Government CIQ Profiles

    The OASIS CIQ Standard is an international standard for customer information interchange quality. It includes personal and organisational names, addresses, party attributes and party roles and relationships. The profiles of the OASIS Customer Information Quality Standard (CIQ v3) provide a New Zealand Government definition of the use of OASIS CIQ for data exchanges.

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  • Records management

    The Public Records Act 2005 has a number of purposes, one of which is to: Enable the Government to be held accountable by -(i) ensuring the full and accurate records of the affairs of central and local government are created and maintained; and(ii) providing for the preservation of, and public access to, records of long term value

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  • E-GIF

    The government's policy on how public sector organisations should achieve interoperability is set out in the Cabinet Paper endorsing the New Zealand Interoperability Framework (NZ e-GIF). The Framework provides for a body of knowledge regarding interoperability, 'standards', and a methodology for selecting and developing standards to put into the body of knowledge:

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  • Financial management

    The Public Finance Act imposes a number of requirments on State sector Agencies.  The Treasury provides guidance on meeting these requirements, financial planning, financial management and performance management.

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  • Security and privacy

    This section links you to the security and privacy standards that all government agencies must apply.

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  • Authentication standards

    The authentication standards support the establishment and on-going confirmation of identity.

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