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Jacinda Ardern announced her COVID-19 budget last week – interesting snippets for Australian observers

Josh Forde May 20, 2020

Originally posted on LinkedIn. The New Zealand Prime Minister is certainly popular in Australia, and a great ambassador internationally for my home country. I travel between Wellington and Australia regularly for work and the enthusiasm for NZ has…

Ackama and Midas Infomedia Join Forces

Breccan McLeod-Lundy April 15, 2020

Ackama and Midas Infomedia are excited to announce the beginning of a transition process where Midas Infomedia will join the Ackama Group. Together they have been looking at ways to better weather the challenges of the current crisis and of…

Ackama’s perspective responding to COVID-19 and economic disruption

Matt Gallen March 26, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone around the world through impacts to health systems, government mandated shutdowns, travel restrictions, and supply chain disruptions. All industries are affected, including the NZ Technology sector, although we can be better equipped than most…

Volunteering Day at ZEALANDIA

Marion Rosner March 4, 2020

Ackama prides itself on its social values and many of our employees freely and regularly give their time and money to causes they feel strongly about and support outside of work. On Friday 21st February, we organised a group volunteer…

Getting perspective on Innovation Labs throughout government

Josh Forde February 20, 2020

This article was originally published on The Mandarin: Why the proliferation, what if anything is new and what are the challenges that are emerging? Being based in Wellington, I get exposed to lots of discussions on innovation policy…

Recursion in Ruby

Cara Hill February 19, 2020

I am a graduate of a coding bootcamp, and throughout my career as a dev I have noticed some definite comp sci degree-sized gaps in my knowledge. Certain concepts and design patterns and data structures that didn’t get covered…

Sensors in Homes

Breccan McLeod-Lundy December 19, 2019

In the last couple of days, there has been public argument on the Kāinga Ora project to put monitoring sensors in NZ state homes. Particular areas of concern being raised are about the nature of data being shared with government, issues of consent and vulnerability, and that this is individual level collection. By individual, I mean that it’s deep enough information to establish not just when people are home but also information on their behaviours. Additionally people might not be given easy access to their own data without making a direct privacy request.

Improving Elections Digitally

Breccan McLeod-Lundy October 15, 2019

New Zealand just had another round of local elections with turnouts so low that it makes the link between elections and the democratic mandate of those elected tenuous at best. Predictably this has led to another round of looking at…

Attending CoLiberate’s mental health course

Katie Wright July 10, 2019

A few weeks ago I was approached with the opportunity to attend CoLiberate’s Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) course. Since getting into tech in 2015, I have noticed that mental health seems to be a pretty open and…

Reflections on my trip to Vanuatu

Breccan McLeod-Lundy June 27, 2019

Following on from my posts about my trip on the Pacific Mission, and reflections on my time in Solomon Islands, below I’ve shared some thoughts from my time in Vanuatu. Vanuatu is a very different experience…

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