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Chief Parliamentary Counsel George Tanner told the Justice and Electoral select committee that an external review of the troubled PAL (public access to legislation) initiative conducted by Australian firm InQuirion has been completed.

State Services Minister Trevor Mallard announced last week the Government had canned e-procurement project GoProcure, writing off the $2 million so far spent on the system after a pilot lasting several months.

Government agencies, national and local and Parliament, could set up a database for citizens to register topics that interest them. They would then receive a note by email when a body was considering something that fell into the nominated areas and inviting public responses

Sam Heard, visiting New Zealand from Darwin to talk with groups interested in health IT, is a founding partner in Australian firm Ocean Informatics, developers of a platform for health-information sharing called openEHR.

The findings also show few believe the situation is improving. Just as many report their connection to the net has slowed during the past year as say it has improved. More than two-thirds reported no change.

Federated Farmers, New Zealand’s farmers’ union, said more than a half of their members can’t connect to the net and more than three quarters think it is too slow.

The service will be funded as part of $25 million being spent by Auckland City Council during the next decade on enhancing the city's community facilities.

The government has finally abandoned its GoProcure electronic procurement system.

The project had never officially moved beyond trial stage. Now the trial is completed, “the project will be concluded and GoProcure will not proceed to the next phase”, says State Services Minister Trevor Mallard.

State Services Minister Trevor Mallard said the idea was now to create a "core transaction hub" which suppliers could use to offer their catalogues to Government agencies.

The State Services Commission says it will write off the sunk investment and abandon the project, which would have cost another $5.5 million to fully implement.

Trevor Mallard said that while the vendors, CGNZ Limited, successfully completed the trial on time and on budget, and that the system performed well, the project will be concluded and GoProcure will not proceed to the next phase.

The State Services Commission has identified interoperability “pain points” to improved integration between agencies, a key requirement for delivering “all-of-government” and e-government initiatives.

The new guidelines will apply to some government sectors not previously reached by the government's set of web content standards.

The successor to the Government Shared Network (GSN) already has the critical mass to be viable, says Stephen Crombie, head of Government Technology Services (GTS), and anything beyond this would be a bonus.

Crombie’s GTS, part of the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), formally took control of ICT delivery functions previously performed by the State Services Commission (SSC) on July 1. He says a priority now for the GSN replacement is a six-month project to transfer the current participating agencies to the new service.

Trevor Mallard released the report, Achieving e-government 2004: A report on progress toward the E-government Strategy, at the Public Service Senior Management Conference in Wellington today.