Program roadmap
A forward plan of SDA program activities and expected impacts. This roadmap will be updated regularly to reflect NSW Government priorities, customer needs and our progress.
Get involved
We invite existing or potential new State Digital Asset owners to participate in this work. We’d love to hear about your digital assets for whole-of-government use, as well as ideas to help us continue to refine our approach. Please see the program’s priorities and planned activities below.
Horizon 1 (2022)
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
- Publish initial set of digital assets available for reuse
- Create awareness of SDAs by publishing content on digital.NSW and other communication channels
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 Our strategic focus 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 (now)
Objective: Establish governance, assurance, and standards to increase reuse, and publish next set of SDAs
Key activities
- Establish an SDA Reuse Policy to provide a pathway for NSW Government agencies to agree on State Digital Assets to use
- Commence identifying and obtaining agreement for assets all agencies should or must use, then assure agency investment compliance
- 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
- Update the What’s available page as specific State Digital Assets get endorsed for reuse
What it means for you
- NSW public servants will need to use assets marked endorsed for reuse 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 endorsed asset, 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 an SDA owner of an endorsed asset, you will need to address assurance recommendations to ensure you provide best practice whole-of-government service offerings
- As an SDA owner in What’s available, you will need to ensure the information published remains accurate and current
Horizon 3 (next)
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
- Provide guidance to SDA owners on how to achieve best practice whole-of-government service offerings
What it means for you
- SDA owners will need to ensure alignment with available NSW Government Enterprise Architecture 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
Last update:
20 November 2023
- Horizon 1 updated to reflect activities completed
- Horizons 2 and 3 updated based on current and planned program activities
- Program terminologies updated throughout
28 November 2022
- Published first version of the Program Roadmap
Get in touch
The roadmap contains opportunities for SDA owners to participate by informing us of their digital assets, helping us understand their needs, and providing feedback to our approach inline with the program’s priorities and upcoming activities.
