A new report from government-owned cybersecurity consultancy and infrastructure provider Kordia highlights the growing threat of cyber attacks and the alarming rate at which New Zealand companies are succumbing to these threats. 

The Government have released their Going for Growth strategy. This is the first blog in a series considering their objectives, specifically developing talent and pathways into the workforce.

New AI reports suggest the impact of the technology on work and society in general will be significant and geographically distributed, with patterns differing from previous waves of technological change.

With more redundancies at Callaghan Innovation as its disestablishment looms and the public service union taking a legal case to stop Health NZ shedding tech workers, we seem to willing to jettison highly skilled workers even as we pursue a growth agenda.

The government has released its framework for use of AI in the public sector, a plan on a page that includes the usual responsible AI buzzwords but is light on detail and has a few important omissions.

As New Zealand (among others) has discovered in the past decade, influencing the behaviour of these companies is easier said than done. It has repeatedly found itself struggling to effectively manage big tech’s impact on its society and economy.