This site will be moving at the end of 2025. Here's what you need to know.
Key Points
- We will be closing the SFIA NZ in the coming months.
- We will shortly begin redirecting you to other websites (either the SFIA Foundation or our upcoming learning and support site) based on the resources you are requesting.
- All existing URLs, including short URLs like https://sfia.nz/sfia9/demg will continue to work and will then redirect you to the best resource.
- We will put in place ongoing redirections for this site that will continue to work after we close it so that anyone who has come to rely on it is minimally impacted.
Migration of Content
Here's a breakdown of what is happening with the content on this site.
Expert Guidance
Guidance from the Digital Skills Agency team, including our videos, how-to guides, and other materials, and SkillsTX specific resources, will move to our soon-to-launch training and knowledge base platform.
Much of our content will continue to remain freely available for SFIA users who visit this site.
We will of course be keeping our guidance and support materials up-to-date on the new platform, introducing new materials, extending the range of support and guidance we provide.
Note: This page will be updated with a link and registered users of SFIA NZ will be invited to access the new platform once live.
Private Client Pages
Many of our clients have private organisational pages hosted on SFIA NZ.
If we are hosting organisation-specific content for your organisation we will be in contact re your primary content in due course. All live organisational content will migrate to our learning and knowledge base platform and will remain private to your organisation.
SFIA Content
Once the migration is complete we will no longer be hosting most the SFIA content currently on this site.
- We highly recommend using the SFIA Multi-View to browse and access SFIA content.
- There is also a Skills at a Glance listing for SFIA 9.
For those needing accessing to previous versions of SFIA content you can find them on the SFIA Foundation's website. Links to the last couple of versions are provided below for convenience:
Similarly, some of the basic About SFIA information we have provided will no longer be available. Up-to-date information on SFIA can be found on the SFIA Foundation's website. The About SFIA page is a good starting point.
We will do our best to redirect you to the equivalent page on the SFIA Foundation website when you request SFIA content.
Note: some limited SFIA content will remain available on our new platform for registered users, for example where this is necessary as part of our Accredited SFIA training materials.
SFIA Events in New Zealand / Australia
We'll continue to collate information on SFIA events in New Zealand and Australia and will share those via our newsletter, and on a new section of the Digital Skills Agency website.
What is behind the change?
There are several drivers behind this change.
Request from the SFIA Foundation: All content hosted on this site was done so with the express permission of the SFIA Foundation, with links to sources on the SFIA Foundation website and with clear recognition of the SFIA Foundation's trademark and copyright ownership. However, other sites have replicated or adapted SFIA content without permission or providing full recognition to the SFIA Foundation. The SFIA Foundation spends considerable time and resources developing SFIA with input from the SFIA community (and volunteers like ourselves) and it is important that the users of SFIA have clear access to the authoritative materials, and the Foundation is recognised as the only authoritative source of SFIA content. As such, the SFIA Foundation has asked that we and others take down SFIA content that replicates the Foundation's materials. As a long-term partner and keen supporter of the SFIA Foundation we want to do all we can to support the work of the SFIA Foundation.
Improvements to the SFIA Foundation website: One of the many reasons for originally creating the SFIA NZ website was a historic difficulty in navigating and accessing the SFIA Foundation's website - our clients needed something easier to navigate. This has improved considerably in the time since SFIA NZ was created, and in particular the recently launched SFIA Multi-View provides a great way to access SFIA skills content.
Availability of SFIA skills content inside SFIA tools: Most of the SFIA tools we have evaluated are able to show SFIA skills descriptions easily within the tool. For example, almost all of our clients use the SkillsTX tool which shows skills descriptions as a pop-up when navigating the framework in the tool. The need for users to access the content outside the tool is minimal.
Changes to how we work with and support our clients: SFIA NZ is one of the tools we use to support our clients - providing organisation-specific content, as well as guides, how-tos, video walk-throughs, that reflect the processes we help introduce. Some of that content overlaps with our training materials, and in some cases a more complex walk-through might be better presented as a mini-tutorial rather than static pages. Bringing our training and knowledge base together in one place will give our clients and users a central place to access all the support they need.
Changes to who we support: Digital Skills Agency original started as New Zealand focussed business. As we have grown, we are now responding to requests for training, guidance, assessments, and implementation support from clients in many other countries too. The SFIA NZ website for example has thousands of visitors accessing it from all over the world, despite only being promoted in a limited fashion to New Zealand audiences. Having a support tool like SFIA NZ be focussed on (and named after) one country no longer suits our needs, the needs our clients, or the other visitors to SFIA NZ.
Technical improvements: Our current platform has served us well so far but is no longer the ideal platform to help us support our clients, our visitors, and the community. There are a number of technical improvements we will see from moving much of our content to a new platform, including a more seamless sign-on and sign-up experience.
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