Summary of actions
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Focus area: Growing export success
SaaS ecosystem
- What: SaaS Community
- Who: kiwiSaaS and NZTE
- Timeframes: Ongoing growth of Community
- Funding status: Funded (22/23-24/25)
- What: SaaS Focused Short Courses
- Who: kiwiSaaS, NZTE and MBIE
- Timeframes: RFP process to select provider by Q3 2023 then ongoing delivery of courses
- Funding status: Funded(22/23-24/25)
- What: SaaS Database
- Who: kiwiSaaS and NZTE
- Timeframes: Pilot to be launched Q3 2023
- Funding status: Funded(22/23-24/25)
Game development
- What: Expanding the Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE)
- Who: CODE
- Timeframes: Immediate funding for new hubs and expansion of activity nationwide
- Funding status: Funded (2022/23 onwards)
- What: Potential additional game development sector support
- Who: TBC
- Timeframes: TBC
- Funding status: Scoping
Focus area: Telling our tech story
- What: Tech Story activation
- Who: NZTech, NZTE and NZStory
- Timeframes: Ongoing
- Funding status: Funded (22/23 and 23/24)
- What: Domestic Tech Story development and activation
- Who: MBIE
- Timeframes: Registration of Interest October 2022
- Funding status: Funded (22/23 – 25/26)
Focus area: Enhancing the skills and talent pipeline
Priority areas
- What: Various projects and operational actions to:
- enhance awareness and understanding of digital tech roles and skills
- build and improve pathways into digital tech careers (individual initiatives and coordinated planning)
- grow the maturity and professionalism of the digital tech workforce
- implement SFIA in education, training, employment and career development
- Who: Various industry bodies, government agencies, education providers, community groups, sector stakeholders, businesses
- Timeframes: Various timeframes for initiation, delivery and completion, as well as ongoing initiatives including coordinating and oversight structures
- Funding status: Monies allocated from residual ITP funding received in 2020
Focus area: Enriching Māori inclusion and enterprise
- What: Māori in Tech Ecosystem Research
- Who: Making Everything Achievable and NZTech
- Timeframes: June 2023
- Funding status: ITP funding received in 2020
- What: Māori Tech Annual Report
- Who: Paua Interface
- Timeframes: February 2023
- Funding status: ITP funding received in 2020
- What: Whītiki
- Who: MBIE
- Timeframes: To be determined
- Funding status: To be determined
Information on initiatives may not reflect the latest developments since the ITP was approved by Cabinet in December 2022.
Last updated: 22 May 2023