13 Aug 2019

Taxpayers hit from govt partnership with US videogame maker

From Morning Report, 7:19 am on 13 August 2019

A government partnership with an American videogame maker has burnt the New Zealand taxpayer.

The Transport Agency has sunk public money into a partnership with a Silicon Valley company called Machine Zone that talked up its vision of software to run everything from buses to the health system and even the police. Phil Pennington reports.