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I work for the government in New Zealand as a design adviser for the tax department. I’m working on a project that is looking at the future of information sharing between employee’s-employers and government. I’m about to pitch a pretty transformational idea based on GOV 2.0 principles to my project team so this post and that great seminar (i can’t remember where i heard about it, was it here?) are going to be key to justifying the higher level potential around intra and inter departmental collaboration it will enable.
However the project itself will be about citizen collaboration generating funding for community projects through simple change of information channel from paper to electronic. The money comes from a subsidy set up 2 years ago by government to encourage employers to use payroll intermediaries (switch from paper reporting to electronic essentially).
New Zealand is only small (4 million people) and yet the amount of money this system could generate for local communities is 15 million $NZ or about $10 million US annually.
Then the government has a pre-made self supporting collaborative network based around community development with which to inspire the inter and intra departmental collaboration.
Exciting!