The Government is pressing ahead with plans to change digital services, unveiling a more ‘centralised approach’ to IT systems that it says could ‘save billions’ across the public sector.
Digitising Government and Public Service Minister Judith Collins said agencies would be progressively grouped into logical ‘digital clusters’, allowing them to share common IT platforms. The move is aimed at ‘reducing duplication’, improving efficiency, and delivering simpler and faster services for New Zealanders.
Collins said a coordinated approach to digital investment and procurement could cut up to 30 percent from the projected $13 billion technology spend across the public sector over the next five years. That equates to potential savings of about $3.9 billion, which the Government says could be ‘redirected into frontline public services’.
As part of the reforms, a new Government Digital Delivery Agency will be established within the Public Service Commission (PSC). Responsibility for the Government Chief Digital Officer (GCDO) function will transfer from the Department of Internal Affairs to the PSC from 1 April. The GCDO role will operate under a functional chief executive model, focused on overseeing digital delivery across government.
Collins described the changes as a significant shift in how the public service manages digital investment, saying they would ensure technology spending is coordinated, cost-effective and focused on ‘outcomes for citizens’.
She said the reforms support broader Government goals of restoring fiscal discipline, improving public sector performance, lifting productivity and supporting long-term economic growth.
I don’t trust that woman at all! Because by her actions she has proven herself to be untrustworthy
So now we’ve got a DDA, spawned from the PSC and overseen by the GCDO.
Traitor … how much money has she taken to push this through without public consultation! Her & her husband are dirty scumbags. Dirty collins is definitely ******* & untrustworthy