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The Library and Information Advisory Commission (LIAC)

Ngā Kaiwhakamārama i ngā Kohikohinga Kōrero

LIANZA Conference6 September 2004

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LIAC PurposeAdvises Minister for the National Library on • library and information issues in New

Zealand, including mātauranga Māori, and access to library and information services

• the role of library and information services, including mātauranga Māori, in the cultural and economic life of New Zealand

• any other matters requested by the Minister

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LIAC Vision Aotearoa – New Zealand: a leading

information democracy• Mapping the information landscape

- high level advocacy

• Imagining the information society

- capacity building

• Informing Aotearoa New Zealand

- meeting community needs

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LIAC Work Plan

• Map the existing information landscape and analyse the gaps – what is or isn’t happening

• Imagining the information society– what could happen

• Policy arch of strategies and frameworks– how it will happen

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Influences

LocalRegionalinternational

Digital Strategy

WSIS

LIANZAStrategy

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POLICY IMPERATIVES ARCHHow it happens

1. Mapping the landscape

What is / isn’t happening

Map Information needs

Map InformationLandscape

ResearchResearchReport

What should happen

2. Imagining the Information Society?

Gap analysis

What could happen

TimelineApril 04

Aotearoa - New Zealand: A Leading Information Democracy

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National Digital Strategy Vision

“New Zealand will be a world leader at using information and technology to realise our economic, social and cultural goals”

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LIAC Response

• Digital Strategy would be strengthened by incorporating mātauranga Māori into the way that New Zealand articulates its digital future

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LIAC Response

• LIAC proposes the creation of a new entity, New Zealand Online

• Could support ‘imagination points’ i.e. projects, which could provide the framework for a world-class, digital infrastructure

 

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LIAC Response

• Public libraries could be used as vehicles to advance the Strategy vision

• Changes to legislation concerning the provision of consistent and equitable levels of public library service would be required

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LIAC Response

• LIAC delighted to note ambitious benchmark targets set for broadband speed by 2010

• Concerned about New Zealand’s ability to achieve them given that it has fallen behind other developed countries

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LIAC Members

• Ainslie Dewe (Chair)

• Brian Pauling

• Chris Szekely

• Evelyn Tobin

• Karl du Fresne

• Paul Reynolds

• Penny Carnaby