TangataWhenua.com have been humbled to be able to work within the Whānau Ora space for the last two years so it was with great anticipation that we agreed to come on board with Te Pou Matakana to support the North Island’s first ever Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency with their communication needs.
In 2013, the people of Aotearoa New Zealand, were encouraged to share their vision and ideas about the fundamental rules that govern our country, this was called the Constitution Conversation.
As part of the Constitution Conversation the Panel heard a range of views at over 100 meetings, on its Facebook page and from the 5,259 written submissions received from groups and individuals.
Nice to be part of the history of Aotearoa, especially when it is about culture and digital innovation!
‘Te ara’ in Māori means ‘the pathway’. Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand offers many pathways to understanding New Zealand. When complete, it will be a comprehensive guide to the country’s peoples, natural environment, history, culture, economy, institutions and society.
(by Hon Dr Pita R Sharples; Minister of Māori Affairs)
Education, Training and Skills (excerpt)
The second area of innovation we must pursue is to ensure our educational pathways are an integral part of the infrastructural planning to chart the future forward. Indigenous peoples must be at the vanguard of a shift to a diverse, highly differentiated, high value, export-led economy, which utilizes both natural resources and technological innovation.
Last July, a young, vibrant couple calling themselves tangatawhenua.com launched Google Maori. Potaua and Nikolasa Biasiny-Tule were part of a large team which created the Maori interface to the world’s largest online search engine. Google Maori was always more than a mechanism for being able to search words and messages in te reo Maori. Read more →
From today you’ll be able to use Google in the second of New Zealand’s official languages.
Just go to the translations page on the web’s most used search page, and in the middle of the list, which goes from Afrikaans to Zulu, the Maori option will come up.
Allowing users to put different language skins on its interface is just one of the reasons Google has become the most used search engine.
Google’s ubiquity was one of the reasons Rotorua couple Nikolasa and Potaua Biasiny-Tule undertook the translation project. Read more →
Digital Natives Academy – “Coding is the New Literacy”November 12, 2014 - 2:17 pmAs pioneers of digital technology, TangataWhenua.com knows the value of the tech sector and the need for whānau to be not just users and consumers of technology but to provide them with the skills needed to become creators, developers and producers of technology. The Digital Natives Academy seeks to do just that; to guide and support tamariki, […]
Supporting Te Pou MatakanaNovember 12, 2014 - 2:07 pmTangataWhenua.com have been humbled to be able to work within the Whānau Ora space for the last two years so it was with great anticipation that we agreed to come on board with Te Pou Matakana to support the North Island’s first ever Whānau Ora Commissioning Agency with their communication needs. If you would like to learn […]
Digital Natives AcademyNovember 12, 2014 - 11:49 amAs pioneers of digital technology, TangataWhenua.com knows the value of the tech sector and the need for whānau to be not just users and consumers of technology but to provide them with the skills needed to become creators, developers and producers of technology. To make this happen, we are establishing DNA:Digital Natives Academy, a real life […]
Te Waiariki PureaNovember 12, 2014 - 11:22 amTe Waiariki Purea, one of Rotorua’s longest running youth outdoor and recreation centres vitally needed a web presence and wanted a site which would promote their many programmes and government contracts. Key to this build was ensuring information was easy to access and created a space where Te Waiarik success stories could be celebrated.