Some things just can’t be stopped. Like a tree that just keeps growing. Or the advances in technology that seem unstoppable.
Aotearoa New Zealand has an amazing tech sector. Our member Jo Allum from Venture Centre has her finger on the pulse and inspired this coordinator to look at more local solutions.
Via the New Zealand Open Source Society our monthly calls will now go through Big Blue Button. Watch this space for future collaborations and sharing of resources. In the meantime, if you like to share technology projects from your neck of the woods, please get in touch.
Supporting good stuff is happening all across Aotearoa, it’s what the Social Enterprise Enablers do. They are place-based intermediaries and passionate about their communities. And like every other enterprise, club, charity, corporation, government agency, council etc they have their way of doing work and how. Here is the list of likely requirements:
Calendar
Online Meetings
Documents & Spreadsheets, easy access for collaboration, file share
Website, Chat, Social Media, Newsletters, Customer Relationship Manager (CRM), Accounting, Online Banking or Fiscal Host, Hosting, etc
If these services were located in Aotearoa New Zealand, open source, purpose driven and not much more costly, would you use them?
Can you imagine the advances in our own tech sector if these services would be available here?
MBIE’s long-term insights briefing paper also covers Blockchain and it’s not about Crypto mining. There is real work happening on the ground in Aotearoa New Zealand and we want to know about it.
A new Alternative Apps tab will show up on our website soon, stay tuned.