An approach to immigration authorities to help ease a perceived shortage of NZ residents with digital geospatial knowledge has succeeded. The classification "other spatial scientist" has been added to Immigration New Zealand's Long-Term Skills Shortage List (LTSSL).
Wellington-based developer SilverStripe has won the contract to provide a single web platform for government agencies.
Submissions on the Commerce Commission’s draft determination of unbundled bitstream access (UBA) pricing are divided largely on expected lines into “for” and “against” camps
A dedicated website and a series of discussion events is being arranged to follow up on the National Library’s Big Data exhibition.
Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee says all school students should be given some hands-on experience of programming, to provide a critical mass of enthusiastic and competent programmers to stem the current shortage of developers.
The Ministry of Education sent a warning letter to payroll provider Talent2 five months before the Novopay system went live.
High-performance computing capacity for New Zealand's scientific research community has taken another leap, with the delivery of hardware from IBM which approximately doubles the power available at the University of Auckland's Centre for eResearch.
The long-felt pressure of electronic communications on New Zealand Post's physical network for letter and parcel delivery has brought a proposal from Post to rewrite its Deed of Understanding with the Crown.
The movement against software patents will be ramping up its campaign, trying to encourage a more active political stance in support of the Patents Bill as it currently stands, with its clause stating simply "a computer program is not a patentable invention".
The virtual desktop is the latest "as-a-service" offering to be the subject of a potential all-of-government syndicated procurement. At this stage the Department of Internal Affairs has issued only a Notice of Intent (NoI) for procurement of "desktop and application services."
The vital area of security in the Institute of IT Professionals' Cloud Computing Code of Practice (NZCloudCode) may be due for a change that will eliminate the element of compulsion in the application of recognised standards.
ICT activity is continuing to gather momentum on the back of businesses coming out of the recession, and this means plenty of job opportunities, notably in new-project work, says recruitment specialist Absolute IT.
Voice recognition will for the first time be a feature of the preparation of the Hansard record of Parliamentary debates when a new production system is set up, later this year
The University of Waikato has attracted 40 or more Year 9 and10 students to a three-day Code Camp, to be held from January 21 to 23, aimed at teaching the basics of computer programming and HTML/CSS for web development.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade is looking for an online service to assist its staff serving overseas and their family members to learn other languages in pursuit of their work.