Social Media Becomes New Zealand

April 18, 2012 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Social Media Becomes New Zealand

New Zealand’s government will be focusing on social media and on the government’s role for identity management and network security in the coming year.

We found this news on FutureGov Asia in their article, “NZ CIO plans closer Govt-to-citizen ties.” The Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, has made e-government a priority for service delivery and wants chief information officers (CIOs) to respond the same.

Communication professionals have been commissioned to develop options about how the government might effectively use and more importantly, understand social media. A former NZ CIO, Brendan Boyle, stressed that authenticity in their communications would be important. Ghostwriters would be obvious to a discerning public.

This all follows New Zealand’s great strides in information management, particularly around metadata and interoperability. The National Library has taken social media further than any other New Zealand government organization, with Digital New Zealand and the Aotearoa People’s Network providing free Internet access in libraries around New Zealand.

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Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.