IAN MCCRAE: Where is Labour's tech policy?

IAN MCCRAE: Where is Labour's tech policy?
Ian McCrae
The announcement in September of National’s technology plan has garnered approval from the Kiwi tech sector, and the 10-year plan to double tech exports from $8 billion to $16 billion by 2030 is certainly achievable.  Over the past decade or two we have already seen a compound annual growth rate of 10 percent, primarily driven by the software sector by companies such as Xero, Datacom, Trade Me, Fusion5, Gentrack, PushPay, Vista, Eroad, ezyVet, Orion Health, and many others. In the 1990s and earlier, vast swathes of government re...

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