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WORKSTREAM DAILY REPORT
TITLE
Digital Infrastructure Daily Report
11052020-WORKSTREAM Digital Infrastructure DAILY REPORT –
Document reference
COVID 19 DRAFT
Date and time
11 May 2020, 1500 hrs
Produced by/location
COVID-19 Digital Infrastructure
Reports are required by 0600hrs daily by
[email address] for inclusion in daily
Tactical Insights Report with a publication time of 0900hrs.
Note: The audience for this report includes Hon Kris Faafoi, Minister of Government Digital Services.
Blue text is a change from the previous SITREP.
Executive summary
1. The GCDO continues to work with agencies and vendors to address issues that are blocking the
delivery of critical services. Our focus is beginning to narrow and deepen as we move from rapid
responses on multiple fronts to significant programmes of work including, for example, contact
tracing. We expect to see the content of these situation reports change to reflect this change in
focus.
2. Contact tracing work continues as our key focus: the Covid card trial and Ministry of Health app.
3. We continue to work with the following critical sectors and agencies: Health, Education, Justice
(Police, Corrections and Justice), Border (Customs, MPI); National Security (including GCSB and
NZSIS); Finance (Treasury and Reserve Bank); FENZ; ACC; MSD; OT; IR; the Ministry of Housing and
Urban Development; and MBIE.
4. Current communications messages remain unchanged.
5. The next GCDO report will be on Wednesday 13 May 2020.
Key facts and figures (work stream specific metrics)
Pain points reported by agencies
6. There are no new paint points. The GCDO mailbox is now receiving more business as usual
inquiries and nothing new regarding COVID-19 incident requests. Agency requests reported in
previous SITREPs have largely abated, including for example, those related to hardware supply,
network capacity and digital access to services. Some of our incident response work has now
developed into projects, such as accrediting digital collaboration tools that be used across the
public service.
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Current operational priorities
Digital inclusion
7. Nothing to report.
GCDO as system facilitator
Guidance 8. The GCDO is scanning the ongoing technical support requirements to support essential services
and expects that one of the products resulting from this scan will be guidance, including for
example, certifying collaboration tools.
Digital collaboration tools
9. The GCDO has surveyed agencies on their use of collaboration tools. The findings of this survey
will assist us to provide advice on improving the interoperability of these tools, including through
guidance and standards; and to identify opportunities to coordinate investment in these tools.
CIOs meeting
10. We will provide an update following the next CIOs meeting on Wednesday 13 May.
COVID-19 contact tracing
The Covid card
11. Today is the fifth and final day of Phase 1 of the hospital field trial for the first prototype of the
COVID-19 card. The trial includes testing data collected by the participants against a daily survey
in which participants recall all their close contacts. We have resolved issues regarding incorrect
logging of contact data and the trial has run relatively smoothly for the last three days.
12. We expect to report on the Phase 1 trial results by Friday 15 May.
13. We are continuing with further testing, and by Friday 22 May we expect to be able to confirm
whether we are ready to proceed with Phase 2 testing: a larger hospital trial of 2,700 participants.
If we are ready, then we will seek Ministers’ approval to go to this next phase. We will discuss the
trial in more detail with Minister Faafoi today.
14. The Government Chief Privacy Officer (GCPO) is also providing support to the Justice/DIA-led
policy workstream on the development of a public/private partnership for the card. A workshop
with GCPO, Justice and MoH is scheduled for Friday 15 May.
Supporting MOH with its contact tracing app
15. The GCPO continues to support MoH with privacy advice on its contact tracing app.
16. The Ministry of Health (MoH) is incorporating feedback from the Office of the Privacy
Commissioner (OPC) on MoH’s contact tracing app related to privacy and the collection of
personal information on smartphones and the use of QR codes.
Supplier RAG dashboard
17. Nothing to report.
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