NZD 2 billion pay equity settlement for 55,000 predominantly-female care and support workers, enacted June 2017. Wages rose 15-50% (minimum-wage workers: +21%). …
Since 2019, New Zealand's NZD 24 million Marae Digital Connectivity Programme has connected 676 of 877 eligible marae to free broadband, Wi-Fi …
A free smartphone course for New Zealanders aged 61+, run by Age Concern Otago at six locations, produced statistically significant gains in …
Skinny Jump delivers heavily subsidised 4G broadband at NZD $5/35 GB — a quarter of commercial pricing — to low-income New Zealand …
National programme launched in June 2021 providing free period products in 2,100+ state schools, covering 97–98% of students. Over 600,000 packs distributed …
National programme paying contractors to eliminate invasive wilding conifers from ~180,000 ha/year; wilding conifers remove up to 40% of catchment water. NZD …
New Zealand's Inland Revenue uses ML to screen 3+ million tax returns for compliance risk. In H1 2024 this drove a 50% …
DOC manages the 10,201 ha Kopuatai Peat Dome, New Zealand's largest unmodified restiad bog and a Ramsar site since 1989, whose peat …
Te Hiku Media's Papa Reo project (NZD 13 million, MBIE 2019–2026) built AI speech recognition (92% accuracy) and a pronunciation app for …
RBNZ tested machine-learning algorithms against ~600 real-time indicators to nowcast quarterly GDP growth. Published in a 2019 paper, peer-reviewed in the International …
Facing 15-20% AI-cheating rates on some take-home work, one NZ school reverted to hand-written, supervised assessment; detection reportedly fell to ~5%. NZQA …
NZCER's 2025 survey of 266 NZ primary teachers and 147 students found generative AI already widespread — 69% of teachers use it …
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