I'm trying to get someone to report properly on the Protected Disclosures Act 2000 (aka the Whistleblower's Act) in relation to this story. Perhaps you might like to look at it? It seems that everyone's just assuming that the report from DiData got lost somewhere in the last 18 months of bureaucracy. Surely there are some white hats at MSD, or MOJ it now seems, who would've blown the whistle. I've written some more about this here: http://www.leftoutnz.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/msd-and-the-pda-aka-the-whistleblowers-act-wtfmsd/

Who outed Ira to the MSM? Well, I'd put money on it being the MSD regardless of what Paula Bennett says seeing as there were only about four other people knew of his involvement. But hey, what's one more privacy breach for the MSD?

Good for wasting time on as you waited but not for looking for jobs - there aren't any.

Erm, everyone used to stick their usb sticks into the kiosks as this is what WINZ staff said to do - bring your cv on a stick and work on it there as they had disabled access to sites like google docs and you weren't able to download it from your email or anything. As wait times at WINZ are ridiculously long, people were often just messing about on the kiosks while they waited.

Well, Brendon Boyle was the head of the E-government unit back in 2000 and seems to have done his best to integrate departments when he was CEO of Internal Affairs and was integrating 8 Auckland councils, when he integrated the National Library, Archives etc, when he presided over the creation of LINZ, and in his most recent incarnation as GCIO. He does seem to like IT integration and appears to have been advising the govt on how to do so.

Seeing as the Chief Executive of MSD came straight from his post as Government Chief Information Officer (CIO) where he was 'responsible for developing and implementing the Government’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Strategy and for providing strategic advice on ICT matters' and he seems to be responsible for the whole of the current online approach to government, and was behind the implemention of the kiosks at WINZ - surely he should lose his job? http://www.ssc.govt.nz/appt-ce-msd-aug11