Netsafe, an independent, non-profit organisation focused on online safety, has awarded grants to eight projects that aim to combat online abuse, bullying and harassment in New Zealand in the first round of its annual online safety partnership grant program.
​Spark is to provide the Christchurch Justice and Emergency Services Precinct with cloud and wireless communications services under an agreement with the Ministry of Justice.
When Microsoft stopped supporting the XP operating system on April 8 after years of forewarning, many government agencies took the option of paying for extended security support.
The Ministry of Justice says essential court services are being maintained in Christchurch and alternative arrangements put in place to support remaining services, following last week’s earthquake.
The main complex is within the Christchurch CBD cordon, so ICT services were seriously affected, says Andrew Hampton, deputy secretary courts in a statement to Computerworld.
“Obviously we had significant disruption to phone, mobile and email systems but have now got to a point where back-up systems and interim measures have given us an acceptable operating function,” he says.
“We have relocated two of the main ministry servers from the main courthouse and are installing them remotely, which will enable access to case information, email accounts etc.
“We have re-routed any affected phone lines to our central call centre so the public can still talk to someone – that number is 0800 324 627.”
The Tertiary Education Commission is joining the flood of government agencies restructuring their IT functions, saying its changes are part of an organisation-wide realignment.
In less than a decade, the use of Open Source Software (OSS) has become mainstream, even in notoriously conservative large enterprises.
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The Ministry of Justice went to unusual lengths to select its new core software platform, hiring nine rooms in Wellington’s Westpac Stadium in 2005 and bringing in users from around the country to give their verdicts on three different options.
The Ministry of Justice is planning to spruce up its development act with a software development improvement project.
Success in two major Ministry of Justice contracts is seen by Gen-i general manager Chris Quin as validation of a five-year strategy to pull together the business solutions units of Telecom and Gen-i.
The Ministry of Justice has chosen an Australian company as preferred vendor for the installation of digital recording technology in New Zealand’s courts.
The Ministry of Justice is embarking on a application integration exercise that will reduce a confusing collection of one-to-one application interfaces to a “hub-and-spoke” system and let related agencies see one common interface with the ministry.
Delays with courts' case management system get blame for tardy warehouse delivery
A data warehouse being planned by the Justice department to share accumulated data among departments connected with law enforcement (New Justice CIO to oversee $1 million data warehouse) will be used “mostly for aggregate purposes”, says Ministry of Justice CIO Sandy Beattie.