Items developed for Covid that are being re-purposed post-coved
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From: Al
Hi everyone,
I’m interested in what was developed for Covid that is being currently or planed to be reused in areas other than solely Covid.
This includes:
- the HIRA business case (released as part of an OIA on the Ministry's website) lists some items developed and learnings from Covid 19 that HIRA will make use of.
Question: Can I be supplied with what HRIA is using, learning from or repurposing items that was initially developed for Covid-19 use?
- items that are now expanding their existing scope or complete re-use or re-development in other areas (with the Covid systems as the starting point or inspiration) and how those decisions were made (the frameworks and business cases if applicable).
These are some examples I’ve seen listed - which I'd like documents or discussions on about their existing or planned usage post Covid:
- Covid Population Identification & Register
- Covid-19 Immunisation Register
- Covid 19 Vaccine Booking And Scheduling System,
- the Covid CARM
- the Covid Tracer App
- the National Contract Tracing Solution
- and what was used to deliver borders management (within the Ministry of Health) and Care in the Community.
This may not be the full list of assets in use for Covid that I am seeking information on repurposed or expanded useage (it's what I could find via the website) but I hope it helps give context to my request.
Thank you for your time,
Al Johnson
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From: Al
Hi everyone,
As part of this request and response HNZ00012907 I've been provided a good summary of what was developed in Covid that both is and is not being reused - thank you.
But I also asked in my request for any relevant business cases or documentation that shows how the decisions were made to re-use them. This aspect of my request wasn't referred to in the response - it may mean they do not exist but the portion of my request that goes 'how were the decisions made' has gone unanswered so I still do not know.
I referred to business cases as this is often how decisions are made with pro/cons and cost benefit analysis. Do business cases exist for any or all of the listed products in my original request? If so I request them.
In the absence of a business case if they do not exist - could you please still provide me with any types of communications or documentation that shows how decisions were made in the re-use of these applications post Covid?
Thank you for your continued help,
Al Johnson
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I asked this OIA as the NZCCL raised as an issue scope creep on their work to try and get docs and provide feedback in 2021 on domestic vaccine passes.
This answer shows scope creep in the response (although they refused any documents for me to understand how the decisions were made). The re-use of covid technologies is interesting as it was such a huge privacy impact - and they are maintaining items like a population register to reuse for other things (which has the entire populations details).
How did they make that decision that it was okay to do that?
Link to this