Strategies and Initiatives

Niue National Security Strategy

“Niue, our Rock of Polynesia, is precious and we want to ensure our people, land, tāoga, values, culture, spirituality, resources and oceans are protected for generations to come.”
– Niue National Security Strategy (2025-2029)

Our unique understanding of national security reflects our experiences, tāoga, people, ragahau, identity, knowledge systems and culture. Our vision for national security is that our people feel safe, and our way of life is protected, now and into the future.

To ensure Niue is prepared to take on the future, we developed Niue’s first National Security Strategy. The Strategy outlines the national security challenges that affect us most, and details our plan of action to help us meet them.

Niue faces three key national security threats:

• Climate change and environmental security
• Critical infrastructure
• Health and food security

But other challenges also face our island, including cybercrime, fiscal pressures, maritime threats, transnational organised crime, financial crime, domestical social threats, and the geopolitical environment.

To help us protect Niue now and into the future, we have identified actions to take over the length of the National Security Strategy (2025-2029) to help us meet these challenges. We’re setting ourselves up to take informed national security decisions that secure our place in the world, ensuring our national security decision making frameworks are resilient for the future.

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Niue ICT

Niue has long-had significant ambition and interest in digital technologies. In 2003, at the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, our national representative
highlighted to delegates that: ‘…the Government of Niue is committed to ICT development. It
recognises the importance of ICT for its social and economical development’.

In the intervening years, we have continued to explore the opportunities of digital tools and
approaches. This has included our efforts to:
• Improve the citizen experience of government, including making more information accessible, and more user-friendly - with opportunities for expanding possibilities.
• Develop digital skills and literacy across our population, particularly in our schools and through our national curriculum; and
• Strengthen our connectivity, with improvements in mobile internet to connecting our island to the Manatua One Polynesia submarine cable

This National Digital Strategy identifies our current progress and sets out important next steps. The strategy documents our digital journey towards a position where digital is a core pillar of Niue’s development. The Strategy also recognises that this digital journey, although an exciting one, is also still emerging. Our National Digital Strategy also acknowledges that digital is an important tool for our development.

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