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Collaboration and Accessibility in Health Information Services

Matt Gallen July 3, 2024

Reflecting on HealthTech Week 2024, New Zealand Ackama co-presented with Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora at the Te Tītoki Mataora Forum in Auckland during HealthTech Week 2024. We had the pleasure of sharing the work on the…

An accessibility guild at Ackama

Rory Harnden June 6, 2024

At Ackama, we’re made up of a diverse group of humans who create digital tools that very real people across Aotearoa and Australia interact with every day. A handful of us Ackama humans have collected…

Our Ethical Framework

Breccan McLeod-Lundy May 8, 2024

In our world, decisions are more than just a crossroad between profit and loss; they’re about aligning with our deeper purpose. At Ackama, we don’t just look at the immediate returns but the broader impact of our actions.

Virtualtrails App: Supported by Ackama

Josh McArthur May 6, 2024

How Ackama’s Investment Time Catalysed the Creation of the Virtualtrails app. Ackama offers investment time allowing space for our staff to share knowledge, collaborate, and extend their skills with learning and experimentation. Today we’re proud to share Virtualtrails,…

Reflections on the Australian Clean Energy Summit 2023

Breccan McLeod-Lundy August 15, 2023

Having experienced Ackama’s increasing involvement in energy-related work over the last few years, I attended the Clean Energy Summit in Sydney this month. As a New Zealander, it was a great opportunity to compare and contrast my knowledge…

The importance of the Discovery Phase in creating purposeful experiences

Josh Ng July 7, 2023

When it comes to designing and developing a product, starting the project off on the right foot is crucial. The Discovery phase sets the stage by uncovering key insights about the product’s purpose, target audience, and…

Ackama sponsors DrupalSouth 2023 in Wellington – what we’re learning at the conference

Josh Forde May 17, 2023

Ackama have sponsored DrupalSouth 2023 for the first time!. DrupalSouth is the conference for the Australian, New Zealand (and hopefully Pacific) open source community and CMS. Community-operated tech events are definitely our favourite – Drupal South is operated by…

Building hardy software applications

Eoin Kelly March 23, 2023

We take the responsibility to provide the most value possible to our clients very seriously. We want to build applications that are long-lived (lasting 10 or more years). We want to…

Don’t start with Microservices: Take a pragmatic approach to tech industry hotness

Eoin Kelly January 24, 2023

I have been doing a little holiday reading on the current state of some of the hot new web development technologies: Edge computing (using CloudFlare workers, Fastly Compute@Edge…

Welcome to the Ackama family, Common Code!

Breccan McLeod-Lundy November 17, 2022

We’re excited to announce Common Code has joined the Ackama family! Founded in Melbourne in 2010 by Daryl Antony, a software developer who loved both technical solutions as well as like-minded communities – mostly related to…

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