Election 2020 - Party Policies - Information and Communications Technology - Business
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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- Establish a New Zealand centre of excellence in key ICT nodes overseas and support promising New Zealand developers to visit key ICT clusters overseas and gain experience there.
- Ensure the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment undertakes research and provides policy advice to the government and government departments about ICT issues.
- Development of independent software ventures in Aotearoa New Zealand, to encourage the development of the industry.
- Develop a strategy to enhance the availability of venture and seed capital for local commercial software companies.
- Growth in the software, applications and games industries, through techclusters, R&D and educational initiatives.
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- Establishing a Minister for Technology.
- Offering 1000 tertiary scholarships per year targeted at students from low decile schools to undertake science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) degrees.
- Establishing a STEM-focused partnership school and restoring funding for specialist ICT graduate schools
- Introducing a fast-track technology skills visa.
- Investing $1 billion in technology infrastructure upgrades with the aim of achieving 100 Mbps uncapped internet speeds for everyone using Ultra-Fast Broadband.
- Establishing three targeted investment funds for tech start-ups worth $200 million each, with the cost split evenly between Government and the private sector.
- Developing the world’s most tech-friendly regulation.
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