The COVID-19 lockdown highlighted some stark digital inequality in our country as we rushed to ensure that children had the tools to continue to learn from home and that older New Zealanders who did not use internet banking could stay home and yet still pay for their groceries and medicines. Access to technology is a social necessity as well as a social good. Yet tech and digital is still seen as a portfolio on the edges worth around $10 billion to the economy, with $2 billion in exports in 2019. There are some one-off successes: the massive replacement of the IRD system, ordering a new passport online, and registering a business. But where are the initiatives that grow innovation within Government? We have burgeoning agtech, biotech, and fintech sectors. Where's our govtech—the methodologies and applications that enable fast, agile, adaptive solutions to our most pressing social and economic issues? Why aren't we building scale from our own IT talent through leveraging our $4 billion Government IT spend locally and embedding better practices within and across Government? 