Shit ... this will get my vote any day ...
'Wanna-be geek' champions IT - 31 Jan 2006 - Technology & Science:
It comes back to a key Green principle, he says: appropriate decision-making.
Another core Green principle, ecological wisdom, is behind two other policy issues Tanczos plans to push hard in his IT spokesman role: a reduction in waste generation from old electronic equipment, and unbundling the local loop.
To reduce "e-waste", the Greens want a levy on hardware purchases to encourage technology recycling.
Like a refund on glass bottles, computer users would receive money back when they dropped their old machine at a recycling depot rather than sending it to the landfill.
Removing Telecom's local loop monopoly would also ultimately benefit the environment, Tanczos says, because more competition would mean better broadband uptake, more tele-conferencing and tele-working and therefore less fossil-fuel depleting corporate travel.
"We don't see why Telecom should retain the monopoly over the copper wire. Telecom as a corporation didn't create that infrastructure. That was created by the nation, paid for by taxpayers and they [Telecom] have ended up with the benefit of that," he said. "We think that's to the detriment of New Zealanders because it's anti-competitive."