1. Develop a comprehensive eGovernment strategy and framework:
i) Ensure that strategy adhere’s to central government’s eGIF standards on eGoverment.
ii) Ensure that strategy is informed by extensive (and continual) consultation with youth, education providers, local councillors, relevant NGO’s and youth-related organisations
2. Recognise the importance of youth to the council & wider society:
i) Ensure that youth are provided with the ability to engage (to the extent which they wish) with local government on issues relevant to them through the communication channels that they are most suited to to.
ii) Ensure that the Youth Hub is user-centric and youth focussed with all content targeted to suit the particular needs and concerns of Auckland youth.
3. Develop an integrated online Youth Hub which looks to enhance and co-ordinate engagement:
i) Traditional forms of communication and engagement should not be replaced by online activity, rather offline engagement should be coordinated and harnessed by an online framework.
ii) The Youth Hub should seek to have a presence on Social Networking Services (SNS) such as facebook, twitter and myspace, while incorporating: sms, email, open source Blogs and Wiki’s, an RSS feed and later on VOIP.
iii) Engagement should be promoted through an inventiveness network reward system similar to that used by www.mybarackobama.com or the Moreland City Council.
4. Ensure that Youth Hub is centralised but still linked to stakeholders relevant to youth engagement:
i) While the Youth Hub should be hosted with some level of autonomy it should still be strongly linked to and promoted on the main council website with content provided from Mayor Len Brown and local councillors in order to provide the site with the authority, relevance and authenticity necessary to be effective.
ii) The site should act as a resource hub for relevant groups such as education providers, NGO’s promoting youth issues or involvement in politics and other youth related initiatives such as ‘Kids Vote’. Utilising cloud computing it could offer free content to help improve the effectiveness of their efforts while encouraging relationship building between relevant stakeholders. A ‘virtual classroom’ application promoting political engaging among young people would be beneficial.
5. Facilitate the development of a deliberative partnership between local government & youth based on mutual trust & respect:
i) Prescribe to the tenants of ‘Openness’, ‘Transparency’, ‘Partnership’ and ‘Collaboration’.
ii) Ensure that information provision is the first step in the engagement process rather than the main focus of eGovernment’s use. Instead eGovernment should be focussed on delivering high level collaboration and partnership.
iii) make sure that GOTV initiatives come at the end of the engagement process rather than being the sole focus of local government.
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