Month: November 2018

  • Auckland Council is investigating online voting

    Auckland Council is investigating online voting

    Auckland Council wishes to conduct a trial of online voting at next year’s local government elections and the local boards are being asked to comment. People that know me will be aware that I am a somewhat self confessed technophile. I have owned a computer for 30 years now and my MacBook Pro is rarely…

  • Auckland Transport’s reorganisation – no walking and cycling unit?

    Auckland Transport’s reorganisation – no walking and cycling unit?

    One aspect of corporate life that I have never understood is the random and occasional destruction of office morale by a good old staff restructure.  Whole departments are consigned to oblivion and individuals face the terrifying prospect of sudden unemployment at the signing of a pen. Of course there is always a consultation, and the…