Dear Ministry of Health,
I am requesting information on your digital security team based on the information in the
minutes of the "Covid-19 Vaccine Immunisation Program Steering Group:
dated 7 Sept 2021 (from https://fyi.org.nz/request/15656/respons...).

The minutes dated 7 Sept 2021 say:

Update on school-based vaccinations (Rachel Mackay)
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As of today, we have communicated with the Ministry of Education and Tertiary Institutions that employees are now eligible for priority to be vaccinated.
...there are some difficulties with anti-vaccine sentiment in this environment. The Ministry of Health is meeting with the digital security team to review the security settings.

Would you please share:
1. all the minutes of the subsequent meetings with the digital security team on the above decision to review, and the minutes when any security setting changes were proposed.

2. Any written reviews or current-state documentation of the security settings "before" and "after" states for any changes from Sept-Dec 2021.

3. The records of digital security changes that were made, ie the change control documents or (ICT) tickets to implement these digital security changes. I am requesting the high-level information on what was implemented, the rollback plan for the change or the work ticket etc. Please, no need for network details such as IP addresses, VLANs etc, just any fully qualified domain names which had security changes implemented on them.

4 During this review, were digital security changes implemented for both student and staff VLANS? Or just staff VLANs in the Education and Tertiary sector?

5. Please include any related memos, texts, emails and correspondence etc around the digital security settings review which were to address the reported difficulties with anti-vaccine sentiment in this environment, as reported in the steering group minutes dated 7 Sept 2021. I assume this review would have been ongoing for a number of weeks or months.

Yours faithfully,

Erika Whittome

Dear OIA Requests,
It is unfortunate that there is no existing documentation or publications relating to the information I request in this OIA. However this does not diminish the importance or the actions of the MoH and the information around their actions spending public money. I will copy and past from the Official Information Act:

The purposes of this Act are, consistently with the principle of the Executive Government’s responsibility to Parliament,—
(a)to increase progressively the availability of official information to the people of New Zealand in order—
(i)to enable their more effective participation in the making and administration of laws and policies; and
(ii)to promote the accountability of Ministers of the Crown and officials,—
and thereby to enhance respect for the law and to promote the good government of New Zealand:
(b) to provide for proper access by each person to official information relating to that person:
(c)to protect official information to the extent consistent with the public interest and the preservation of personal privacy.

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome

Dear OIA Requests,

It has come to my attention that information shall be received and imparted without interference which is Article 19 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights from the UN:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. "

Is NZ still a part of the UN?

Yours sincerely,

Erika Whittome