Wellington is New Zealand's capital and seat of government, with a well-known film and post-production industry alongside the agencies.
Public-sector work is about documentation
Government agencies buy through their own procurement processes, and a delivered system has to be explainable to people who were not in the room. Every build ships with an architecture overview, data-flow description, a list of third-party components and hosting details, plus a readable decision log. Procurement rules and security requirements are set by the agency and stay with it; the documentation is built to make that assessment straightforward.
Personal information in the public eye
Agencies collect personal information on a scale and sensitivity that attract scrutiny. The data model is planned with GDPR principles in mind, which cover many of the Privacy Act 2020 principles, with role-based access, access logging and defined retention. For creative productions, the same discipline applies to large media assets and unreleased material: access is limited, tracked and revocable.
The deal
- First Version (MVP) from $27,800, market-ready app from $83,300
- Fixed price and scope in writing before the first line of code
- Architecture, data-flow and decision documentation delivered with every build
- Invoiced in US dollars by DigitalFreedom Global LLC, Wyoming
- Full handover of code, cloud accounts and documentation
The wider picture: app developer for New Zealand. Also in New Zealand: Auckland. To start a conversation: get in touch.