The information-sharing agreement aims to prevent and minimise behaviours that threaten a safe, secure and trusted .nz online environment.

“This is an excellent opportunity for today’s best and brightest graduates to help shape a new way of working for and with government.”

“It demonstrates the collaboration and collective strength that agency chief executives aspired to when we developed the Government ICT Strategy."

"NZ was the first in the world to bring together hidden content from across galleries, libraries & museums into a comprehensive national service."

The New Zealand Government is set to save $5 million over a five-year period, after a partnership with SAP New Zealand was signed last week.

Since the start of the year nearly every month has seen an increase in the number of passport applications made online.

The agreement, which closely aligns with the Government’s ICT Strategy, allows NZ's government agencies to make use of Oracle's Cloud services.

Enforcement agencies from around the world including New Zealand have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to fight against spam.

“People want websites that are safe and trusted."

The warning comes after several Government contact centre operators received calls from overseas callers pestering them for information about staff.

The 50,000th online birth registration has been recorded by the Department on Internal Affairs since online registration went live a year ago.

"New Zealanders have become used to information, services and products being available online, on demand, anywhere, any time."

“The new agreement lifts the already close cooperation between New Zealand and Australia on spam and cyber security matters to a new level."

The victim received a letter that appeared to be from the Minister of Internal Affairs and the DIA threatening extradition if payment wasn't received.

“Our goal is to provide information that’s easy to find, access and use. The user experience is at the centre of everything we do.”

New Zealand students are accessing ‘inappropriate content’, namely pornography, on school computers more than ever before.

“By March this year, an average of 45.8% of measured government service transactions were completed digitally."

Internal Affairs is warning people to beware of a ransomware email campaign that could cripple IT systems.

The man was found to have sent 2,230 commercial electronic messages following an online argument. The emails were mainly abusive in nature.