ABOUT New Zealand - Christchurch

Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. The city's territorial authority population is 389,300 people, and includes a number of smaller urban areas as well as rural areas.

In recent times, the University of Canterbury engineering school and computer science department play an important role in supplying staff and research for the technology industries, and the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology provides a flow of trained technicians and engineers. Locally and nationally, the IT sector is known not for its size (the third largest in New Zealand) but for producing innovative and entrepreneurial solutions, products and concepts.