Flightpaths and Flashbacks
When an OIA request warrants an OIA request
Kia ora and Happy 2025
2024 felt like a year to easily forget. Flaxroots was on hiatus. Treading water for survival, not leisure, seemed the right description for the mood in general across the motu.
Our network of enablers of social enterprise, whakapapa-driven purpose aligned businesses fell into a slumber for the majority of the year 2024. There was the shell-shock of the coalition government approach that still reverberates through the sector. Many organisations are facing not just funding cuts. The state of social and environmental impact in Aotearoa and the rest of the world can easily be seen as fragile. But there is always the option to keep doing the mahi, despite it all. There are reasons to be cheerful.
This year we want to put ourselves back together, pop that crown back on, chart the path and open the throttle to lift off once again.
Our impact model opens the imagination, how to be the best place-based capability builders for thriving communities where purpose and prosperity go hand in hand sustainably. Ensuring a liveable world for future generations.
Exciting that it was pure HI - human intelligence - that was used to create it.
An OIA request for details on an OIA request
Back in June 2022 Flaxroots submitted to the Long Term Insights Briefing The future of business for Aotearoa New Zealand: An exploration of two trends influencing productivity and wellbeing – purpose-led business and use of blockchain technology.
MBIE was beholden to a different government then.
On 15 January 2025 we were advised by MBIE that a request was made to release the submissions on the LTIB under the Official Information Act (OIA) 1982.
No details were given who had requested the information. For the sake of transparency I requested the details of the requester. Watch this space.
Please email me if you would like to read our submission from 2022, no need requesting it through the OIA.
Until next time, ngā manaakitanga
Anja (she/her)
Flaxroots Coordinator
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