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Information and Communication Technology


The way we communicate, learn and do business is changing rapidly - new developments in telecommunications and information technology are constantly emerging and New Zealand is quick to take up new solutions. Information and communication technology (ICT) has a huge potential to benefit our society through wide access to information, more productive business and a way to share ideas and experiences without travelling huge distances.

We welcome these exciting opportunities while believing that the development of ICT must proceed in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner. ICT provides new opportunities for the public to participate in decision making, but it is important that opportunities do not depend on wealth. The benefits of ICT need to be shared across society and not used to concentrate power and money for the few.

Free, Open Source software is a great way of making technology available to as many New Zealanders as possible, and helps us to help ourselves, rather than being stuck with what huge multinationals have to offer.

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Broadcasting Policy

28 Oct 2008

Broadcasting is a key element in how we, as a community, talk to each other, forge our collective identity and satisfy our need for information and desire for entertainment. New Zealand has one of the most deregulated broadcasting environments in the world.

Are Chinese spies monitoring Fonterra and New Zealanders?

03 Oct 2008

New Zealanders will be disturbed to learn that China has been conducting a massive spying operation on the online phone service Skype, and that one of the trigger phrases is ‘milk powder’, Green Party Human Rights Spokesperson Keith Locke says.

Intruder Alert: State snoopers in your computer

18 Sep 2008

Green Party MP Keith Locke is concerned that the new Search and Seizure Powers Bill will further intrude on New Zealanders’ privacy.

"Much of a person’s life is increasingly on their computer these days, so it is worrying that the bill provides more general powers to search computers, even by remote access or hacking," Mr Locke says.

Making IT work for people - new Green policy

19 Aug 2008

The Green Party released its Information Technology (IT) Policy today ahead of a lecture tonight by free software legend Richard Stallman, jointly hosted by Otago University's Campus Greens branch and the computer science department.

Radicalism, Richard and the Right to Freedom: An Introductory Remark

19 Aug 2008

It gives me great pleasure, on behalf of the Green Party to be able to introduce Richard Stallman tonight here in Dunedin and his lecture on Copyright vs Community. I have been thinking about the similarities between the Green Party and organisations like the Free Software Foundation and people like Richard. In the Greens we know what it is to be radicals. We temper it with electability. Richard represents a burning torch of radicalism...A burning radical makes no compromises and takes no prisoners. We on the other hand have to make compromises and accommodate our prisoners.

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