Industry News

Netsafety Week 2021

NZTech has signed up as a Netsafety Week 2021 supporter. This is the first time New Zealand has ever held itsown online safety week and we’re excited to join the cause to help Make Aotearoa Safer Online.26-30 July is a week to raise awareness of online safety issues, share the support available a

July 23, 2021

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NZTech Inform - challenging the skills shortage

EROAD has announced it would acquire privately-owned rival Coretex (for between $158 and $188 million) to increase its scale and accelerate its growth.  Once complete, the combined organisation will become a significant global supplier of in-vehicle fleet management solutions and telematics in

July 19, 2021

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July News: Location Technology demand soars

June has been cold and wet but it hasn’t dampened New Zealand's enthusiasm for all things LocationTech.  Current market conditions suggest that Location Technology practitioners are currently overrun with work and conversations with various LocationTech members confirm that they have never b

July 15, 2021

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Elevation Aotearoa

Earlier in the month the LocationTech committee met with representatives from Toitū Te Whenua LINZ.  The focus was to hear more about Elevation Aotearoa - a partnership between LINZ and Regional Council’s to procure and then share a nationally consistent elevation dataset for all of New Zea

July 15, 2021

NZTech News

New Zealand Tech And Innovation Story Summary Insights Report

The New Zealand Tech and Innovation Story (Tech Story) is a marketing initiative designed to deliver a compelling, consistent way of promoting our tech and innovation capabilities. This will help our businesses grow internationally by attracting tech investment, tech talent and growing

July 13, 2021

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NZTech Inform – innovating with currency

Due to the school holidays, this week is a bit quieter. While thousands of holidaymakers are jumping on planes, I am happily avoiding flying for a couple of weeks.I am very excited to announce that the amazing Jodi Ihaka has joined the NZTech team as our Government Relations Manager. Jodi is based

July 12, 2021

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NZTech Inform – more border exemptions!

Another week and another sector gains a border exemption! The Government is allowing border exemptions for 300 needed teachers, but it doesn’t make sense to me why the border restrictions are so limited. The demand for highly skilled digital workers looks like it is reaching a crisis point.O

July 5, 2021

Industry News, Media Releases

New Zealand facing a digital skills crisis

While all sectors are experiencing skills shortages, a survey underway is finding critical digital skills shortages impacting all parts of the economy. NZTech, the organisation tasked with providing the voice for the technology ecosystem has been collecting input via a digital skills survey whic

July 5, 2021

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NZTech Inform – complain or build our case?

We are still receiving responses to the Critical Workers survey.  We have 192 responses who are currently recruiting for 1242 roles.  However, this is still only a fraction of the tech sector.  Personally, I find the low response rate frustrating given how many people are complaining

June 28, 2021