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Poutama’s new Chief Executive

2021-07-01T22:14:08+12:00July 1st, 2021|Business, Creative, Cuisine, Digital, Education, Export, Fashion, Honey, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle, Science, Tourism|

Koroninia Dickinson - new Chief Executive Ngāti Kahungunu, Kāi Tahu & Kuki Airani Ka pū te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi - when the old net is cast aside, the new net goes fishing. This whakatuaki symbolises not only the old making way for the new but also embracing progress and the future. Koro joined [...]

Kotahitanga partnership forged between AgResearch and Poutama

2020-11-26T23:54:31+13:00November 26th, 2020|Business, Cuisine, Export, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle, Science|

Poutama & AgResearch whānau - pictured An important new partnership between AgResearch and Poutama will maximise the skills, networks, and capabilities of both organisations to help whenua-based (land-based) businesses and communities flourish. Poutama is an independent charitable trust established to provide business development services to Māori, and shares with AgResearch the value of kotahitanga (unity) and [...]

Pā to Plate

2020-11-26T23:54:22+13:00November 26th, 2020|Business, Cuisine, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle|

He tono: An invitation to Te Tai Tokerau marae growers and food producers Pā to Plate is a recently established social enterprise that connects descendants to whenua via kai and kõrero.  Our initial focus is in Te Tai Tokerau, working with rural marae communities in restoring māra and growing kai.  It is the first multi-marae, [...]

The Rise of 3D-Printed Clothing

2020-11-26T07:27:18+13:00November 26th, 2020|Business, Creative, Digital, Fashion, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle|

Peter Diamandis In 2010, Kevin Rustagi was frustrated.  So were his friends Aman Advano, Kit Hickey, and Gihan Amarasiriwardena. These four recent MIT grads had been thrust into the working world, where they quickly discovered they hated their outfits.  Business clothes sucked.  And it didn’t make sense—athletes got to perform in all sorts of high-tech [...]

Industry Transformation Plans: Tukua mai ōu whakaaro!

2020-11-26T23:54:52+13:00November 26th, 2020|Business, Cuisine, Export, Innovation, Investment, Iwi|

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) are partnering with the manufacturing and food and beverage sectors to develop an Industry Transformation Plan that seeks to help improve these sector’s productivity, employment opportunities, job quality, wages, and international competitiveness.  The programmes of work will identify, and progress, [...]

Virtual Indigenous Trade and Connections Event

2020-11-26T23:54:42+13:00November 26th, 2020|Business, Creative, Cuisine, Digital, Export, Fashion, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle, Tourism|

Tēnā koutou and greetings, We are delighted to let you know that we are staging an invitation-only Virtual Indigenous Trade and Connections Event under the auspices of the Indigenous Business Sector Group which is part of the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum (ANZLF).  We encourage you to register your interest to attend. The purpose of [...]

The MacDiarmid Institute Discovery Scholarships

2020-11-26T23:55:04+13:00November 26th, 2020|Education, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle, Science|

The MacDiarmid Institute is delighted to announce the continued funding of the Discovery Scholarship Programme, for Māori and Pasifika students in tertiary science.  This is an extension of their long running DiscoveryCamp programme, and is designed to support students studying in the physical sciences, chemical/materials engineering, Māori sciences or sciences related to sustainable innovation. The scholarships [...]

Kanorau Digital

2020-11-26T23:55:14+13:00November 26th, 2020|Business, Creative, Digital, Education, Innovation, Lifestyle|

Arataki Systems Partners with TWOA To Deliver - KANORAU DIGITAL Māori Tech company to support the delivery of basic digital skills programme at Te Wānanga o Aotearoa campuses around the country. Arataki Systems, a Māori technology start-up specialising in building digital storytelling platforms, announced that they have partnered with Te Wānanga o Aotearoa to help [...]

Matakohe Architecture & Urbanism

2020-11-26T23:55:25+13:00November 26th, 2020|Business, Creative, Digital, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle|

By Bonnie Jade Kake - Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whakaue, Te Whakatōhea Matakohe Architecture + Urbanism is a kaupapa Māori design studio based in Whangārei.  We work collaboratively with Māori communities to progress their marae, papakāinga and whenua development projects, and with mana whenua groups to express their cultural values and narratives through the design of their [...]

Collaborative Pathways

2020-11-26T23:55:35+13:00November 26th, 2020|Business, Creative, Cuisine, Export, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle, Science|

Poutama Trust: Collaboration key to success for Māori businesses Attending the Te Hono Stanford Bootcamp IV in 2015 confirmed what Poutama Trust CE Richard Jones had known about the benefits of collaboration. “We were collaborating before bootcamp, but [going to bootcamp] helped validate that this was a good path for us to go down, simply [...]

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