Inside the government’s multi-billion dollar digital shake-up
The way the New Zealand government buys technology is about to change in a big way.
A Cabinet paper from Judith Collins, the minister for digitising government, has outlined and approved a plan to centralise IT and digital-related government procurement decisions within the Department of Internal Affairs.
Facing up to $13 billion in planned technology spending, with only two-thirds of it funded, the DIA team knew something had to change.
“The underlying issue is fragmentation,” explained Paul James, the Government Chief Digital Officer and key architect of the procurement changes…
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