New Zealand Cross Sector Collaboration

1. New Zealand Cross Sector Collaboration , Murray Leach

2. The Context for Cross-Sector Colloboration in New Zealand • Education Sector ICT Strategic Framework • The e-Framework and Interoperability standards • The development of Shared Services • Establishing a Target State for New Zealand Education Sector

3. Education Priorities for NZ ICT Strategic Framework for Education National Digital Strategy Education Sector Strategies E-Government Strategy Agency Statements of Intent ICT Strategic Framework:

4. ICT Strategic FrameworkThe Vision To improve learner achievement in an innovative education sector, fully connected and supported by the smart use of ICT Learner-centred More informed decision-making Ease of access, reduced compliance costs Increased confidence, capability & capacity to utilise ICT Support knowledge creation & innovation Value-on-investment Internationally recognised standards

5. ICT Strategic FrameworkKey Focus Areas The ICT Strategic Framework for Education aims to deliver across the above National Digital Strategy components and supports the e-Framework for Education and Research

6. ICT Strategic Framework

7. Supporting the ICT Strategic Framework through the development of shared services: Education Sector Architecture Framework (ESAF) Aims to deliver interoperability across the Education Sector through the ability to: • share a common understanding of data and information • transfer information based on business best practise • prove your identity • authorise access to services and information • locate services and information within the sector

8. The ESAF Projects– to deliver foundation layer of standards and services • Education Sector Data Model (ESDM) • Defines a common framework for shared sector data as the basis for data collection and exchange. • Education Sector Metadata Schema (ESMS) • Enables a common understanding of education related electronic information. • Education Sector Integration Services (ESIS) • Provides a set of common services to support interoperability between New Zealand education sector organisations and systems. • Education Sector Authentication & Authorisation (ESAA) • Provides a single sign-on service to access all relevant education sector services and systems. • Education Sector Federated Search (ESFS) • Provides a search brokerage service which connects to key NZ & international electronic catalogues; a single point of access to education related information.

9. Identity and access management action group for education and research • KAREN – The Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network • An advanced network to facilitate collaboration and enable efficient access to data resources and other computing infrastructure

10. Identity and access management action group for education and research • Review and implement international best practise and internationally recognised standards for identity and access management. • Initiative involving the six major education agencies, National Library and MoRST (Ministry of Research, Science and Technology. • More information: www.karen.net.nz

11. Establishing a Target State for New Zealand • Education sector agencies now actively taking a leadership role in planning the co-ordinated use of ICT • Building on the work to date of the ESAF programme and the collaborative work being undertaking nationally and internationally • Established key working and governance groups for e-Learning and Connectivity • Taking an architectural approach that is focused on modelling the New Zealand education sector as a whole • Will develop a target state for early childhood, schools, tertiary and government agencies and a roadmap to achieve it • This approach will focus on the services and components and their relationship to each other (administration, assessment, learning and infrastructure)

12. Establishing a Target State for New Zealand Outcomes of this approach will create a key planning tool that will: • Deliver a view of the sector, that through the governance process, will enable the co-ordinated planning of ICT initiatives • Clearly show roles and responsibilities • Allow all ICT initiatives to be able to be assessed against towards the road map to the target state • Domain Modelling is a key component for achieving the Target State.

13. New Zealand and International Collaboration • E-Framework International iniative for service oriented approaches to facilitate technical interoperability of core infrastructure as well as effective use of available funding in ICT • Identity and Access Management Collaboration with AAF - Australian Access Federation

14. New Zealand and International Collaboration - Standards • IT 19 (and sub committee IT 19 01) Joint standards committee with Australia focusing on IT standards for learning, education and training. • SC • Participating member of Sub Committee 36 • 21st plenary meeting of SC 36 hosted in New Zealand, March 2009 • IMS Global • Re-estblishing working group on Service Oriented Approaches • IP and licensing working group to be established. • Content Packaging and Common Cartridge

15. Further Information Please Contact: ICTSectormailbox@minedu.govt.nz , Murray Leach