New NZGO portal will offer range of services

By RICHARD WOOD

A new online Government portal will be launched on July 15 with "1100 services available and 2500 resources" to provide services across a range of Government agencies and departments.

Services and outsourcing business Datacom is hosting the portal, which has been developed by systems integrator gen-i.

The portal solution mixes proprietary and Open Source solutions by using both Microsoft Windows NT and Open Source Linux operating systems with Open Source Apache web serving software, a Microsoft SQL server database and Java XML. The web interface is being created by Wellington-based Copeland Wilson & Associates.

State Services Commission e-government unit director Brendan Boyle said there would not be much in the way of end-to-end services at this stage because that would depend on authorisation capability which is still on the drawing-board.

Some Government departments already have their own authorisation systems so can provide such transactional capability.

Boyle said the companies doing the work were all New Zealand operations, despite the commission going through normal market processes that did not favour local operators.