7. Achieving our digital potential
7.1 What will it take?
Digital technologies are rapidly changing the world. They are changing the way we do business, build communities, experience our cultures and think about our long term future. What is not changing so fast, however, is our ability to understand and act on the potential of these changes.
A mindset change to adopt technology and ‘be digital’ is needed across New Zealand to take us forward. How do we do this? – Summit challenge
Connection, confidence and content are the critical enablers for our digital future. Collaboration in the digital space is more vital than ever. But for us to achieve our digital potential as a nation, we need to think differently about the kinds of outcomes possible from our use of digital technology.
The Summit challenged all of us to define and capture the benefits that living and working in this digital society will bring. We have crystallised those key benefits (or outcomes) into three areas:
- productivity
- community
- sustainability.
This chapter provides you with an opportunity to rise to this challenge. We want you to tell us how you can use digital technology to bring enormous benefits in the three areas indentified.
To help you make a contribution, action tables are provided at the end of each of the following outcomes – productivity, community and sustainability. We need you to help complete these tables.
A few examples have been provided to help kick-start this process and give an indication of the types of action possible.
The next chapter – Have Your Say – outlines the process for participating in the online discussions,
wiki and submission process.