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Government Tech Projects in Crisis | Auckland News
Government tech projects are crumbling under pressure — court audio-visual upgrades stalled, birth/death records system years behind, and a failed biometric project cost over $30 million. Top digital officials demand tighter control, calling current agency efforts fragmented, overlapping, and too big to succeed. A scrapped Civil Registration system lost $213 million, and the new version still hasn’t been approved — not even for Cabinet until next year. Meanwhile, the old, clunky system remains online, barely functional but legally compliant. Without consistent standards and funding, New…
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