Government's second-crack Summit to employ Second Life
Online forums, or even a Second Life presence, will be among ways of engaging in the debate at the Digital Future Summit 2.0 next month.
Online forums, or even a Second Life presence, will be among ways of engaging in the debate at the Digital Future Summit 2.0 next month.
Access to documents that could help New Zealand succeed economically should be given top priority, according to a revised digital content strategy.
Peter Macaulay, the former head of the Digital Strategy secretariat, has renewed his criticisms of the Strategy being part of a policy-making Ministry.
ICT suppliers appear ready to take on work to further the government’s digital and e-government strategies, but representatives at a State Services Commission networking breakfast last week were still sceptical.
The digital strategy secretariat of the Ministry for Economic Development is operationally broke, with no relief in sight until the next Budget.
The Government’s Digital Strategy team has called for a more strategic approach when it comes to sharing digital content across public and private sectors. It’s also wants people to be able to find local content easily and for the experience to be a consistent one.
The “Computers in Homes” scheme is the big winner out of the $6.5 million first-year grant package recently distributed by the Community Partnership Fund.
The HiGrowth Project is seeking a researcher to undertake a study into why more immigrants aren’t being employed in the ICT sector.
A “New Zealand Online” funding model to facilitate creation of local digital content in a manner similar to NZ On Air for television is a key idea presented to IT Minister David Cunliffe by the delegates who attended the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)in Tunis last year.
Chris Liddell, ex-pat Kiwi chief financial officer at Microsoft, has been appointed one of three new members of the advisory group on implementing the government’s digital strategy.
The Ministry of Economic Development yesterday released its telco benchmarking study that shows the lack of competition means New Zealanders pay through their noses for telecommunications services which often are not up to scratch compared to overseas alternatives.
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