Ideas

The following list covers future research concepts. This will be enhanced to include Wordpress-style Ideas forum for ratings and feedback. We intend to post short items and updates regularly, with results for longer more substantial topics being published in parts as they are completed.

We’re interested in working with other agencies on these or other topics that would improve the use of technology for business enhancement. Contact the Innovation & Technology Team to express your interest.

Short Term

  • Demonstrate Atom/RSS usage according to latest NZ government guidelines
  • Prototype hCard creator for NZ context and develop usage recommendations
  • Research/prototype hCal for complex event data
  • Demonstrate RIA/Ajax app with plain html app from the same codebase
  • Ongoing research on IPv6
  • Package up test suite of virtual machines with various browser/OS configurations
  • Write up hosted apps / Google apps experience
  • NZ light hosting write up
  • web analytics report

Medium/Long Term

  • Research possible options for implementation of common open source content management applications in the New Zealand government sector including MediaWiki, WordPress, Joomla, Silverstripe, Plone. Examine functionality & standards compliance.
  • Wordpress Ideas plugin; implement Wordpress plugin to rate ideas see http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/
  • examine and prototype couchdb
  • PSD widget report
  • newzealand.govt.nz search box how-to
  • Open source desktop research/report
  • thin client / green / sustainable computing report
  • Video and multimedia from the desktop - looking at current technology for immediate communication among small workgroups rather than large scale conferencing facilities.
  • Keyword optimisation and positioning for better search ranking
  • Technologies supporting radical participation trends e.g. Second Life, geo layers on Google Earth etc.
  • Web Ontology Language (OWL) and Resource Description Framework - development of the semantic web
  • Open Source databases in government - Mysql, Postgress, IBM DB2-Express etc.
  • Web statistics and reporting - towards a common understanding of measuring service delivery
  • REST and SOAP standards for web services
  • Data archiving practices and formats
  • Acessibility versus usability
  • Mobile technology trends
  • Environmentally sensitive IT strategies - looking at areas of current IT practice and effects on the environment