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Digital skills for our digital future

Kia ora, Stand by this week for the launch of the 2020 Digital Skills Survey. We are refreshing the national digital skills survey to establish a new baseline of current digital skills in the market and identifying required skills. We will be surveying the tech sector, large corporate IT teams a

September 21, 2020

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Championing diversity and inclusion

Kia ora, Thanks to COVID-19, we are amid a digital revolution and changing the way the world does business. Technology is supporting the industries and people who are being disrupted throughout society. However, the tech sector fails to reflect the diversity of the world it is enabling

September 14, 2020

Media Releases

NZTech’s new board reflects New Zealand’s future

Auckland - Thanks to covid we are in the middle of a digital revolution that is changing the way the world does business. Technology is supporting the industries and people that are being disrupted right across society. Yet the tech sector fails to reflect the diversity of the world it is enabling.

September 14, 2020

Industry News

Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand #weeknotes (20)

By Mitchell Pham, Chair of the Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand. The Digital Council of Aotearoa Chair, Mitchell Pham was a panelist at the DataCon virtual summit last week. Members of the Council also had their first hui with Māori representatives looking at experiences, aspirations

September 11, 2020

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Industry News, Newsletters

September Newsletter - LocationTech Reinvented

Welcome to the first edition of the LocationTech newsletter. As a reminder, the Spatial Industry Business Association (SIBA) joined the New Zealand Tech Alliance and has been reinvented LocationTech. We have a re-energised purpose, empowering innovation with location-based technology.

September 10, 2020

Industry News, Newsletters

Meet the Chair of LocationTech Sam Drummond

Sam Drummond replaces former Spatial Innovation Business Association (SIBA) Chair, Anne Harper who has resigned from the role after a successful six year tenure. Sam is part of the new generation of Location Professionals looking to expand the footprint of geospatial beyond the traditional mar

September 10, 2020

Media Releases

Technology likely to provide a covid silver bullet

It is likely that technology will provide the silver bullet that New Zealand needs to manage covid-19, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. The resurgent outbreak of covid in the community has served as a reminder that Kiwis will be having to manage the impacts of this disease for some tim

September 9, 2020

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Try before you buy!

Kia ora The borders are closed, the constant flow of international tech talent has dried up, 1,568 software jobs are advertised on Seek and 1,008 software jobs advertised on LinkedIn. However, the Summer of Tech programme has placed less than 20 percent of their students into internships.&n

September 7, 2020

Industry News

Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand #weeknotes (19)

By Mitchell Pham, Chair of the Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand. Last week our research project into trust and automated decision-making continued, we met with Digital Identity New Zealand and attended the CIO Summit. We also farewelled some team members and welcomed a new senior communi

September 2, 2020

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