Departing InternetNZ CEO Vikram Kumar, who is resigning from his position at InternetNZ at the end of this month, says he has not been offered another job; he is leaving simply because he considers it the right time to move on and broaden his perspective.
Technology reviewer for Consumer NZ, Hayden Green says the question he's most often asked is "how much does Apple pay you?"
Winner of the annual student research contest organised by the Institute of IT Professionals is Nathan Hopkins of Victoria University’s School of Information Management, with a study on school students’ use of “bring-your-own” digital devices.
Not one government website complies fully with web standards laid down by the government itself in 2003, says a monitoring report released this month on New Zealand’s compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities.
More open and transparent government procurement processes and the appointment of an Ombudsman to help sort out procurement disputes are two recommendations from an exercise coordinated by NZRise to improve the effectiveness of public-sector procurement, particularly on the ICT front.
A $100 million cornerstone government investment like that proposed by the Green Party in a second Pacific fibre-optic link, would have enabled Pacific Fibre to go ahead, says Lance Wiggs, co-founder of the now defunct second-cable venture.
Concerned local business-sector representatives have had the chance to engage with local and overseas negotiators on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement at a stakeholders' forum, during the latest round of negotiations, in Auckland.
Green MP Gareth Hughes, in a blog post, has sought to reignite public debate on the intellectual property provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. Media discussion of the proposed international treaty has recently focused on access for agricultural produce and regulations governing overseas investment and pharmaceuticals.
An emphasis on vulnerabilities in mobile devices featured in this year’s Kiwicon hackers’ conference, says Kyle Gibson, director of Wellington security consultancy Confide; “there was a lot of discussion of email hacks on iPhone and Android,” he says.
Many merchants have still not been assessed as compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
The Art Gallery of New South Wales -- a century-old institution -- has been faced in the past two years with the disruptive force of endemic mobile technology among its visitors, the National Digital Forum in Wellington recently, heard.
New Zealand and Australian art galleries and museums have participated enthusiastically in the Google Art Project (GAP), which opens significant artworks to the view of the public worldwide.
The Ministry of Social Development will appoint a chief information security officer following the second phase of the Deloitte report on its security, says chief executive Brendan Boyle.
“I am creating a new senior management position of chief information security officer to support the implementation of all of the recommendations from the two Deloitte reports.
“This role will report directly to the deputy chief executive, people, capability and resources, and I have formally assigned information security management to that deputy chief executive to provide a single point of responsibility for driving information security activity across the ministry.”
InternetNZ has flagged a pressing need to consider a more converged regulatory regime for telecommunications and broadcasting, in view of the extensive overlap between the technology and uses of the two media.
New Zealand's representative on the Governmental Advisory Committee to internet body ICANN has conveyed no specific objection to proposals for new generic top-level domain names.