Media statement - New Zealand IT company to host new
Media statement
New Zealand IT company to host new government portal
19 Dec 2001
The government's new portal, being developed as part of the e-government programme for launch in July 2002 will be hosted by a New Zealand company, Datacom Systems Ltd. The service will be hosted at Datacom's data center in Auckland, with a fully operational backup site in Wellington.
Ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the services to be delivered through the portal, was one of the key requirements of the successful tenderer. The portal will be used to direct people looking for government information and services to the appropriate government website. The new portal will encompass functions of the existing portal, known as NZGO (www.govt.nz) and significantly enhanced topic based and life event based searching.
The Department of Internal Affairs established the NZGO portal in 1997. Responsibility for it was transferred to the State Services Commission last year.
Contact: Brendan Boyle, Director E-government Unit (04 495 6719)
Contact for technical content: Trudy Rankin, Project Manager (04 495 2842) or
Mike Pearson (04 495 6769)
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