Page 3121 - Week 08 - Thursday, 16 August 2018
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of our community, engaging in ways that are more meaningful and convenient, and improving coordination to reduce engagement fatigue.
The government will deliver a central strategic engagement team, establish and operate an online “insights community”, and deliver a customer relation management system to streamline engagements with the community.
Across government, a number of deliberative democracy processes have either been carried out or are about to be carried out. These include the carers strategy; compulsory third-party insurance; housing choices, which is currently underway; and better suburbs, which is coming up soon. We are learning how beneficial these processes are in giving a representative group of Canberrans the time and information to gain an understanding on complex policy issues and be able to make informed recommendations to government.
Using deliberative processes and approaches is just part of the broader program of strengthening the way we engage with the community. As well as ensuring that we are delivering good policy that is the product of quality engagement with the community, the government is ensuring that there is absolute trust and confidence in the process of government through the establishment of the integrity commission. All parties in this chamber are committed to establishing an integrity commission, and funding of $8.4 million over four years is provided in this budget to establish the ACT integrity commission. This appropriation also provides funding for an inspector. The 2018-19 funding is being provided to the Office of the Legislative Assembly to allow the Speaker to access the funding and commence initial establishment arrangements, including the recruitment of the integrity commissioner.
To ensure that Canberra continues to be the most LGBTIQ-friendly city in the country, the Office for LGBTIQ Affairs will deliver a small grants program and support the engagement of an additional part-time staff member to work on trans and intersex issues.
The ACT government continues to invest in core support functions for higher quality public services. Increasingly, these support functions are digital. The government is expanding on the establishment of the Chief Digital Officer position with the new ACT centre of data excellence, to enable the government to make better decisions based on our rich data whilst protecting the privacy of citizens.
The budget includes funding to increase the rate of ACT public service transition to digital record keeping. Increased use of digital record keeping systems will deliver a range of benefits, including more efficient use of office space, allowing the ACT public service to take full advantage of the savings offered through activity-based working in its new office accommodation; increased ability to share reliable and authoritative records, information and data across government, supporting efficient customer service, informed decision-making and improved data analysis capabilities; and greater environmental sustainability through the reduced use of paper. This initiative will also help public servants transition to a “paper-lite” office environment by providing advice on approaches to managing existing paper documents.
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