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NZTech Inform – vital information required!

Recently, every second conversation I have had with members has been about the difficulty in finding the tech people they need to run and grow their businesses. I have heard from companies engaging international head hunters to track down overseas based New Zealanders in senior digital roles,

October 5, 2020

Industry News

Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand #weeknotes (23)

By Mitchell Pham, Chair of the Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand. Last week we talked about using the digital dilemmas of COVID 19 to inform design. Understanding how someone might solve a challenge they face will surface new insights for design. People become a resource, not a passive re

October 2, 2020

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NZTech starts crucial digital skills survey

NZTech today began surveying thousands of New Zealanders to produce a nationwide digital skills survey. Chief executive Graeme Muller says before covid around half of all new tech roles were fulfilled via immigration.  “With closed borders, it is obvious that what was once a skills sho

September 29, 2020

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NZTech Inform – emerging issues for our economic recovery

Kia ora, Until COVID-19 struck, large New Zealand businesses and fast growing tech firms were bringing in thousands of highly skilled digital professionals each year. The local education system has been able to produce approximately 5000 new computer science graduates a year, but hi-tech firms u

September 28, 2020

Industry News

Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand #weeknotes (22)

By Mitchell Pham, Chair of the Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand. In these #Weeknotes we explore the digital dilemmas experienced by Pacific households and businesses in Aotearoa throughout COVID-19. We look at how these dilemmas inform the design, effort and investment of government and

September 25, 2020

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Election 2020 - Nurturing Tech Talent

NZTech welcomes plans to nurture New Zealand's tech talent, as announced by the National Party on 22 September. NZTech CEO Graeme Muller spoke on RNZ's Midday Show to discuss what these plans could mean for New Zealand.  Listen here. Graeme also discussed this further on NewstalkZB's M

September 23, 2020

Media Releases

NZ tech exports on track to reach $16 billion before 2030

NZTech applauds National’s promise (if elected) to establish a minister for technology, who will be responsible for partnering with the private sector and implementing its 2030 NZ tech plan. NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says they currently advise seven or eight different ministers on t

September 22, 2020

Industry News

Pacific people should be involved in creating algorithms used on their people #Weeknotes (21)

By Mitchell Pham, Chair of the Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand. Personal data is taonga, something to be treasured and held dear. This requires those who gather and use data to enact the principles of tika, pono and aroha — doing the right thing, in the right way, with integrity, and

September 22, 2020

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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