If you missed EveningReport.nz's Live Tech Now with Sarah Putt and myself, you can see it on demand via this link: eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/liv… We talk about DDOS, First Responder comms, and a digital media success story!

This week we catch up on evolving stories – cyberattacks, Ministry of Education PCs for students rollout and the fate of SkyTV bit.ly/2GP04BT

Also, followed up on scan by Paul Brislen of tech policies last week and cupboard still pretty bare.

It will be a tech opus

National and Greens now have tech policies, will other parties follow suit?

LIVE AT 8pm (NZST) we cross LIVE to author and film-maker @barbara_sumner to discuss her new book Tree of Strangers. This book is sometimes sad, it’s wonderful, it’s often tragic, it’s intimate, it is brave. This book has a purpose. Legislative reform. eveningreport.nz/2020/09/23/liv…

With just 23 days until the general election will we see political parties sign up to digital inclusion, & more, in our summary of the week in IT. bit.ly/2EuaSEz

Today we look at how much share of the NZ IaaS market local vendors have, take a tour of Spark’s new 5G zone, and note the latest signee to the Algorithm Charter. bit.ly/3jmwCRZ

Evening Report LIVE: Tech Now with Sarah Putt and Selwyn Manning - Tech Policy + Tech Giants pscp.tv/w/ckq75jk4NTAx…

What is DEPA, how do continuous disclosure rules apply to cyberattacks and will RSPs rush to unbundle? Check out today’s Fry Up. bit.ly/3dan5v6

From light-handed regulation to a world class regime – NZ’s telco landscape has changed dramatically in 20 years, and there is plenty more work to do. bit.ly/35mGGVu

Wondering out loud about 5G, W-shaped recoveries and whether the dreaded “do more with less” will ever fade away. bit.ly/3mAB6Ww

LIVE @ 8pm on TECH NOW Sarah Putt + Selwyn Manning on NZ's new Tech Minister; How tech-friendly will US Pres-elect Biden be? What's the Internet of Behaviours? Join us make comments, and be apart of the show #Technology #Livestream #NZPol

LIVE Tonight @ 8pm: Tech Now with Sarah Putt + Selwyn Manning Topic: the top five tech moves of 2020. PS: If you join us while we are live we can include your comments in the programme #Tech #NewZealand #Podcast EveningReport.nz

500+ SaaS companies is proof, once again that tech is key to a successful NZ economy, now and (especially) in the future.

Telco and IT skillsets continue to merge, as Spark's latest 5G rollout in partnership with Samsung, shows. bit.ly/3qNKojv

Would be good to see more data to back up rhetoric from tech sector but there are apparently over 500 NZ B2B SaaS exporting companies & I don’t think that’s unrelated.

With major health, water, RMA reforms on the Government’s agenda, is it time to consider a national digital twin? An interesting discussion at TUANZ (Craig Young) event this week. bit.ly/3iGKOrh

Chatted on RNZ - Nine To Noon today about the Metaverse, or is that metaverses? A little correction on the book that inspired the term, proper title is Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. bit.ly/3DbCacm

Huge new Amazon Web Services data centres? New IPhones? Theranos court case? Sarah Putt takes a look at a hectic week in technology news. rnz.co.nz/national/progr…