Click here for our 2020 Election Priorities for a High Tech Economy ICT can help create a productive and sustainable green economy, especially if we close the digital divide and ensure environmental sustainability. The internet should be free, open, and unrestricted Net neutrality must be upheld. Infrastructure and service providers must not be allowed to play favourites, or restrict types of traffic or use of devices unless authorised by law. Government databases should be freely available to the public, where...

The Green Party is celebrating the latest figures that New Zealand’s game development industry earned a record $143 million in the last financial year and is urging practical policies to kick this into overdrive. “While this growth is phenomenal, the New Zealand Government can do more to assist in growing it to a billion dollar industry,” said Green Party ICT spokesperson Gareth Hughes. “While income has been concentrated amongst the ten largest companies we think the Government needs to act...

The Commerce Commission’s decision to raise the price of broadband internet will hit consumers in the pocket and is the legacy of National’s failed meddling in the Telecommunications Act in 2010, the Green Party said today. “Families and small businesses will suffer higher prices from this decision, while Chorus – the company that owns the old nationwide copper broadband network – and its private investors will cash in,” Green Party ICT spokesperson Gareth Hughes said. “New Zealand already has high...

The Green Party is calling on the Government to let the computer game development industry access incentives already available to the screen production industry, following new information from the New Zealand Game Developers Association that suggests growth in the gaming industry is constrained by a lack of Government support. “Unless the Government provides an equal playing field with the movie industry, new gaming companies and high-value projects are likely to dry up,” Green Party information and communications technology spokesperson Gareth...

The Green Party has today launched a $30 million plan to boost New Zealand's ICT sector, create jobs and drive innovation.