Dave Moskovitz (((❤️)))Mar 19, 2023
Is anyone aware of NZ Government agencies or SOEs making an appearance in the Fediverse?
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Mar 19, 2023
@davemosk a few of us have been working on this, Dave. Watch this space.
Show threaddonkeyMar 19, 2023
@lightweight That sounds promising, Dave. I'm going to be helping out with a discussion paper to MBIE on allowing use of social.govt.nz as a domain for this - can we include your work in that paper? @davemosk
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Mar 19, 2023
Nice one @donkey! I'm talking to political parties about a presence on the Fediverse prior to the coming election. @davemosk
Show threaddonkeyMar 19, 2023
@lightweight That would be awesome! And that’s exactly the sort of thing I’m thinking for the social.govt.nz instance - central and local govt agencies, parties, MPs etc - all on an official govt instance - less need to worry about impersonators etc.
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿
@donkey it's remarkably discouraging that gov't agencies haven't *led* this initiative. Similarly political parties. Shows how disconnected our public service (esp education) and political parties are. It's very concerning & disappointing.
Mar 19, 2023 at 10:19pmWeb
Show threaddonkeyMar 19, 2023

@lightweight Indeed! I’m trying to do it ‘from the inside’ - of local govt at least. Turns out the Govt CISO has also been pushing this from the central govt side.

We shall see. 😊