Mon, 2nd December 2024, 12-1pm, G.02 & G.03, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, 15 Stout Street Wellington 6011 - and online
From GOVIS, in partnership with AWS & Silverstripe
What is the strategic opportunity to transform the New Zealand government through Digital Public Infrastructure?
We heard from Pete Herlihy about Digital Public Infrastructure. Pete works as a Principal Product Manager with AWS. While based in New Zealand, Pete's role is global in scope.
Pete's presentation slides, and the poll and Q&A results from Slido are available here.
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) are the foundational digital capabilities a nation provides to facilitate inclusive, efficient, and secure digital interactions within society, such as proving identity, paying for goods and services, proving an entitlement, or sharing data and information. In countries with high-quality DPI it is cheaper and easier to deliver digital services – enabling flow-on innovations and savings to governments, businesses and society.
At the GOVIS Trust to Innovate conference in August, Pete Herlihy gave a global overview of DPI, and described how other countries are now reaping the benefits from their early DPI investments (you can watch his presentation here). At this event Pete came back for round two, with some specific suggestions on how New Zealand could take a more strategic approach to DPI. It was an interactive event, and we gathered detailed feedback from our audience using a number of polls in Slido (see link above for the results).
This is what we hope will be the first in a series of events called Transforming Government - where GOVIS takes a look at some of the ways that digital technology can enable positive change in the way that government operates and delivers services.
Pete Herlihy is a highly experienced and relentlessly user-centred product manager with a strong technical background. Currently a Principal Product Manager with Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in New Zealand, Pete has global responsibility for stimulating the creation and reuse of open-source digital public infrastructure (DPI) within the public sector and in particular within the Global South. Prior to joining AWS in 2021, Pete was a founding team member of the UK’s Government Digital Service where he worked for over 10 years. Over his time in the UK Government, he built and led small, diverse, multi-disciplinary product teams to deliver five of the UK government’s biggest digital successes: GOV.UK, Petitions, Register to vote, GOV.UK Notify, and Emergency Alerts – many of which have gone on to be reused by other governments around the world.