Issue 17 - October 2006
Issue 17
05 October 2006
First agencies sign with GSN
The State Services Commission announced the signing of the first agency contracts for the Government Shared Network (GSN), with the Department of Labour and Maritime New Zealand. These agencies are the first two of five agencies that will migrate network services to the GSN when they come on stream around the end of 2006... continue reading
SSC appoints Business Uptake Manager
The State Services Commission has appointed a Business Development and Uptake Manager to support SSC's new role as a provider of mission-critical all-of-government services... continue reading
Justice extends videoconferencing
Court use of videoconferencing is being extended during 2006/07 and will include civil list work done by Associate Judges. Videoconferencing equipment has been introduced into a small number of court sites so that the benefits of use of the technology can be formally assessed and a set of technical standards can be developed and tested... continue reading
KAREN rolled out
KAREN, the high performance research and education network for the research and education sectors in New Zealand launched a proof of concept at the end of August. The Network, which has 16 points of presence across New Zealand, has a national capacity of 10Gb/s. There are also international connections to Sydney (at 155Mb/s) and to Seattle (at 650Mb/s).... continue reading
Trusted Computing paper well received
The New Zealand government's Trusted Computing Principles and Policies were presented at the September 2006 meeting in Berlin of the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications. The Working Group adopted a working paper that makes the following recommendations.... continue reading
New Cultural portal launched
The Ministry of Culture and Heritage recently launched the new cultural portal, NZLive.com. NZLive.com brings together in one place a wealth of information regarding New Zealand’s cultural offering and taonga in a user-friendly site which is free to both users and contributors.... continue reading
