The Online Engagement guidance a part of comprehensive web toolkit of the Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand is now live and is ready for use. The work of making guidance useful is under progress and it requires feedback from its viewers for its improvement. The Department of Internal Affairs and chairman of e-Government at Victoria University of Wellington launched guidance at an event conducted on 3 September 2015. The guidance is useful when a person is asked to consult or engage with people to inform policy or regulatory development or review, or service design. The guidance helps by delivering well planned online engagement, encouraging openness and also transparency. It also helps in building trusted relationships with the audience and in identifying the future impact of changes before they are implemented. The guidance comprised of a feature where viewers can provide their feedbacks on what they think about the guidance, how easy is it to follow and how they are using it and how it can be changed to make it more useful? The guidance is than updated based on the feedback and what’s working (or not working). Additional information or tools are than added after receiving the feedbacks as per the requirement of the audience.
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