Telecom is laying off a large percentage of its workforce and as awful as that is for those involved, the company needs to do this to become competitive in the marketplace.
We have the government investing over a billion dollars in the fibre network and a couple of hundred million in rural broadband, matched and exceeded by the industry's own spend in the area, yet we don't have any way of articulating just what that will do to the economy of New Zealand as a whole.
We have research which suggests that ICT will overtake tourism in terms of share of the GDP in the near future, yet we're also told that only 30 per cent of businesses have a website and a large percentage of business owners don't see the benefits of digitising their companies.
We have some schools making tremendous use of technology in classrooms and other schools where parents lobby to ensure they don't have to buy iPads for their kids.