The awards, backed by the United Nations, select five winners for each of the eight categories, from entries from 100 countries.
Wellington firm Gibson Group won in the e-culture and heritage category for its multimedia touchscreen display designed to tell Copenhageners about their city and let them add to the story.
The results from the first New Zealand pilot of telehealth technology have just been released by health innovator Healthcare of New Zealand.
William Hall, who has chronic pulmonary disease and was one of the people who trialled the technology says, “Since I’ve been on telehealth my health has improved dramatically. I got the monitor 12 months ago and if I didn’t have it, I wouldn’t be here today.”
Read more: New Zealand’s first telehealth pilot improves patients’ quality of life
Tim Williams, who was a special adviser to former British Cabinet minister David Milliband and has also advised London Mayor Boris Johnson, said that could go hand-in-hand with raising the retirement age, recognising that people would soon need to be working into their 70s.
The igovt project helps users verify their identities to government service providers securely via the Internet, with two separate, but related services- logon and identity verification.
The logon service gives users the same logon details to access all participating government service provider’s online services. This saves citizens from having to remember multiple logon details for different services. While the identity verification service verifies identities to participating government service providers via the Internet, replacing the process of document submission in service applications.
Read more: NZ “igovt” project gets more funding for expansion
The Federated Farmers, New Zealand’s leading rural sector organisation representing 17,000 farmers and rural families, said this move is critical for wireless broadband and will provide a pathway to next generation technologies.
Don Nicolson, Federated Farmers President said the confirmation of the NZ$252 million (US$201 million) increase for rural broadband it has petitioned for will finally generate results for rural New Zealand.