![]() The MOU was updated in February 2020 to add the lighthouse projects. The deal was not made public until RNZ inquiries earlier this year. The Government’s non-binding Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2017 gave Microsoft a special role in digital development nationally. ![]() Critics question why Microsoft should get leg-up from NZ GovtĬritics have questioned why a trillion-dollar US company should get a leg-up from the Government. The ministry also eventually rejected Microsoft’s other proposal, to add to the “lighthouse” projects its Operation Constellation of real-time data collection and analysis in schools, citing trust problems. ![]() Google approached the ministry about this time for “a similar opportunity for research-based work” but no one picked it up, “so again, nothing happened”. But by the end of 2021, no one on the seven-strong steering group of senior managers had had time to even go to meetings or do any work on it, and the project “fell into a black hole”, the project leader said. ![]()
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