The Green Party supports equitable access to digital technologies, services, and data. We will take a harm-based approach to digital technology, including social media, AI, and quantum computing, policy that upholds Te Tiriti o Waitangi and protects people’s privacy and online safety.
Vision
Digital environments are secure, support our well-being, connect people, and respect sovereignty.
Values and Principles
- Whanaungatanga: Data and digital systems should empower secure, meaningful, and mutually beneficial connections between people. Digital management must be accountable, transparent, and responsible.
- Rangatiratanga: Data and digital systems honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi, tikanga Māori, and mātauranga Māori, with decisions made by those affected. Data sovereignty is paramount. Data is a taonga and people must have control and ownership over their data.
- Manaakitanga: Digital systems offer innovative ways to foster community and enable communities to build social cohesion. Everyone is brought together, whether online or not.
- Akoranga: All communities should be able to participate digitally. Digital systems can help us learn and build our capacity. They must be accessible, understandable, and responsive to the needs of connected people and the environment.
- Kotahitanga: Data and digital systems must be designed and operated to benefit and respect people, communities, individuals, and the environment. Digital infrastructure is a public good and must be reliable and available for all people to use if they want to.
- Kaitiakitanga: Digital systems can negatively affect people and the environment and require protection from misuse and exploitation. Digital systems should reduce waste and pollution, not contribute to it.
Strategic Priorities
The Green Party’s strategic goals include:
“As a Party we strive to create a more connected, compassionate, and equal Aotearoa, free from structural biases that discriminate against groups and individuals.”
“All people will be empowered to shape the systems that affect them through community engagement enabled by good evidence, co-design, and adequate resourcing.”
Actions in this policy that work towards these goals include:
- Use a harm-based approach to regulating autonomous decision-making software. [...] (1.1.3)
- Limit the use of automated or mass surveillance by government and strengthen regulations for surveillance done by individuals. (2.4.2)
- Establish standards for data quality in public decision-making. (3.1.1)
- Provide free internet access in appropriate places, including marae and public spaces such as schools, hospitals, libraries, and public transit. (4.1.2)
- Require digital items manufactured or used domestically to be repairable and require retailers to support the right to repair, including by providing component parts. (5.2.1)
- Refine public data collection systems to reflect tikanga and mātauranga Māori. (6.2.1)
Connected Policies
Our Research, Science and Technology explores the development and regulation of technologies in general. Digital technologies are an integral part of Business innovation, supported by digital Education.
