Separately verify a person’s identity before associating a biometric with a claimed identity

Avoid investment in new identity capabilities that are available as existing government assets

Ensure best practices are applied in building digital services

Adhere to reuse principles Give priority to the adoption of reuseable digital and ICT solutions, patterns, or knowledge, and, where necessary, design...

This policy aims to manage and utilise metadata and semantics to make Government owned data more accessible, understandable and valuable to the...

Collaborate with the private and research sectors for mutual understanding of how data should be best described, interpreted and managed.

Optimise the use and reuse of public data.

Release non-sensitive data as open by default, using standardised descriptions for metadata shared across agencies.

Build for reuse. Where reuse is not possible, provide evidence of which systems across government have been investigated (specifically across the...