The Government's sector report produced by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment 2 identifies the ICT sector as contributing five percent of GDP and employing 73,392 New Zealanders. That's double the equivalent figure of GDP contribution and about ten times as many people employed as in mining. 3 The number of people employed in Information Technology (IT) Services in New Zealand had an annual growth of 3.4 percent over the last ten years. 4
in favour of political centralisation