Horizon 1 (now)

Objective: Define NSW SDA strategic direction, priorities, and increase awareness

Key activities

• Identify behavioural changes required to increase reuse of SDAs
• obtain agreement from senior governance groups on actions to increase reuse
• establish methods to identify NSW SDA priorities and strategic direction
• create awareness of SDAs by publishing content on digital.NSW and other communication channels

Assets identified for reuse

In the first horizon, we identified existing digital assets that are delivering outcomes against 4 value domains.

See what’s available to learn more about the State Digital Assets delivering these outcomes

What it means for you

• As a potential SDA user, you can connect with owners listed in What’s Available
• as an SDA owner we have engaged in this horizon, refer to the SDA Lifecycle process to understand how we will continue to support you
• if you own or provide a digital solution to government that relates to the areas above, please let us know so we can support your alignment to NSW Government’s strategic direction
   

Horizon 2 (next)

Objective: Establish governance, assurance, and standards to increase reuse, and publish next set of SDAs

Key activities

• Establish an ICT Reuse Policy to provide a pathway for NSW Government agencies to agree on State Digital Assets to use by default
• commence identifying and obtaining agreement for assets all agencies must use by default, then assure agency investment compliance
• provide guidance to SDA owners on how to achieve best practice whole-of-government service offerings
• develop standard reporting that priority SDA owners can use to communicate to governance and assurance groups
• advocate sustainable funding for priority SDAs with senior governance groups
• publish the NSW SDA reuse catalogue

Assets to be identified for reuse

In this horizon, we will broaden our review to additional value domains, specifically in use cases around customer profiles/wallets, emergency management, and the environment.

Please contact us if you are planning, developing or have digital assets in NSW government for the areas above.

What it means for you

• NSW public servants will need to use any asset marked as "use by default" in What’s Available. All ICT/Digital investments that go through NSW investment and assurance will be assessed for compliance.
• as an SDA owner of an asset agreed to be used by default, you will need to provide reports to specific whole-of-government governance groups to enable a strategic focus on funding, adoption, and policy development when required.
• as a priority SDA owner, you will need to address assurance recommendations to ensure you provide best practice whole-of-government service offerings
• as an SDA owner in the NSW SDA reuse catalogue, you will need to ensure the information published remains accurate and current

Horizon 3 (future)

Objective: Increase benefits by managing SDAs as a collection of connected assets, policies and standards with customer at the centre

Key activities

• Identify whole-of-government priority problems/outcomes and use cases to develop a State Digital Assets ecosystem architecture (for example: what assets are needed to deliver seamless customer experience)
• develop ecosystem architectures for priority government problems/outcomes
• identify ecosystem asset, policy and standard priorities for development and investment
• update the NSW Government Enterprise Architecture (GEA) standards to provide guidance on how to design scalable, interoperable solutions and services

Assets to be identified for reuse

In this horizon, we will start to develop ecosystem views of State Digital Assets. Each ecosystem will focus on a specific user segment and their needs (customers, industry partners, public servants).

What it means for you

• SDA owners will need to ensure alignment with available NSW GEA standards that relate to solution scalability and interoperability
• specific SDA owners will be involved in co-design activities for building out ecosystem architectures to solve priority whole-of-government problems, which will lead to actions for asset enhancements and integration
• government policy experts will be consulted for any change or reform required to achieve whole-of-government outcomes
• the Government Enterprise Architects community will be engaged to support development and endorsement of standards to improve service offering and maturity of State Digital Assets