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• Media Releases and Speeches
• Broadband
• Legislation
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• Standard Terms and Conditions
• Privacy Policy

The New Zealand Government E-Commerce website was maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development. This site provided information on e-commerce policy and initiatives.

However as this site is no longer being updated and may contain out of date information it has been decided to discontinue the site. Below is the content which was available on the site.

• Policy Papers
  E-commerce Strategy policy papers and other e-commerce related papers and agencies.
• Statistics and Research
  Summarises the topics included on the New Zealand E-Commerce website under statistics and research (e-commerce, broadband, and ICT).
• Electronic Commerce Action Team (ECAT)
  The Electronic Commerce Action Team (ECAT) was formed in March 2001 by the Minister for Information Technology. ECAT's final meeting was held on 16 June 2003. ECAT is hosted on the New Zealand Government's e-commerce website.
• International
  International relationships in relation to electronic commerce.
• Media Releases and Speeches
  This page has links to e-commerce related media releases and speeches. They are listed in date order with the most recent at the top of the page. There have been no additional releases or speaches since July 2003.
• Broadband
  Information on Project PROBE (Regional Broadband Extension) which was developed jointly by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Economic Development to rollout high speed Internet access, or broadband, to all schools and provincial communities.
• Legislation
  The Electronic Transactions Act and the Electronic Transactions Regulations come into force on November 21, 2003 and are available on the MED website.
• Links
  Links to New Zealand government agencies involved with e-commerce policy issues.
• Standard Terms and Conditions
  The standard terms and conditions of the New Zealand Government E-Commerce website.
• Privacy Policy
  Privacy policy of the New Zealand Government E-Commerce website.

See Also

• Digital Strategy

If you are looking for help and information on making e-commerce work for your business, please go to Biz.org.nz [external link] and look under e-commerce.

The Minister responsible for e-commerce at the time was the Minister for Information Technology. Hon Paul Swain held this position from 1999 to 2004. Hon David Cunliffe is the current Minister.