Government Chief Digital Office (NZ)
Government Chief Digital Office Projects (New Zealand)
This section outlines three major projects for the Government Chief Digital Office. Each project has a series of outline pages, which include:
- plain language explanations, a project summary, and a project timeline
- comprehensive raw transparency materials.
The projects all involved developing consolidated regulatory instruments from diverse sources, as well as generating new digital and natural language outputs using DocRef digital regulatory infrastructure, Claude Code and DocRef MCP Servers.
Projects
API Standard
Development of API standards for government services, including plain language summaries and technical specifications.
Key Materials:
- Plain language project overview
- API-standard generation timeline
- Detailed transparency materials, including methodology and technology documentation, execution plans and decision logs, and verification and quality assessment reports.
View API Standard transparency materials in more detail →
Identification Management
Comprehensive analysis and documentation of identification management requirements, standards, and best practices.
Key Materials:
- Executive summary and project timeline
- Multi-phase analysis (6 stages)
- Source materials and annotations
- Content retrieval and verification processes
View Identification Management transparency materials in more detail →
AI Guidance
Evaluation and structuring of generative AI guidance materials for government use.
Key Materials:
- AI guidance evaluation
- Structure validation methodology
- Best practice documentation
Related Work
The following projects build on or extend the GCDO work above:
API Catalogue
A cross-government catalogue of New Zealand public service APIs. Designed using the NZ API Guidelines as the basis for catalogue fields.
Key Materials:
Draft API Compliance Assets
Exploratory work on automated compliance checking for the API Standard using rules-as-code approaches. These are unvalidated prototypes demonstrating what's possible.
Key Materials:
Additional Resources
About DocRef, MCP, and AI Tools
Technical background on the tools and methodologies used across all projects. Learn about DocRef, MCP Servers, and other tools & technologies.