Innovation in a small, Māori, non-for-profit

2 Aug 2016 | Our stories

Te Hiku Media is a charitable media organisation, collectively belonging to the Far North iwi of Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupouri, Ngai Takoto, Te Rārawa and Ngāti Kahu. The station is an iwi communications hub for radio and online media. Māori language revitalisation is a core...

Innovate the vote

1 Aug 2016 | Our stories

Our mates at Figure.NZ and Te Pūnaha Matatini have asked us to talk about what innovation means to us. As the Innovation Partnership we bring together like minds to drive digital innovation in New Zealand. We believe that if we can put digital at the centre of our...

The Number 8 RE-wire

1 Aug 2016 | Our stories

Agriculture used to be New Zealand’s main bread and butter. Our small Pacific nation at the edge of the earth was bred on a “number eight wire” mentality, where ingenuity and resourcefulness was at the core of what we did, and the number of sheep was ten-fold the...

Reframing Innovation

31 Jul 2016 | Our stories

Innovation has become a bit of a cliché. The word has graced the spine of one-too-many books in the business section. As someone who researches and writes about innovation I find this painful to say but, if I’m honest, there was a whiff of the naughties about it in...

Siouxsie Wiles – Blake Leader 2016

21 Jul 2016 | Our stories

Congratulations to Te Pūnaha Matatini’s Acting Deputy Director Dr Siouxsie Wiles who was named a Blake Leader 2016 from the Sir Peter Blake Trust on July 1. Siouxsie leads the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland. She has spearheaded many...

NZ innovation reframed by leading figures

15 Jul 2016 | Our stories

New Zealand’s leading thinkers and doers are out to reframe innovation in a series of online data-driven discussions from August 1-5. Technical expert Keoni Mahelona and Antarctic researcher Dr Victoria Metcalfe are just some of the leading figures coming together to...