By Mitchell Pham, Chair of the Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Stakeholder engagement
Last week was another busy one for the Digital Council.
We met with the CEO of figure.nz, an organisation that has developed a platform bringing data from multiple sources together into one place.
Figure.nz is on a mission to make data more accessible and easier to understand and to help New Zealanders use data to make better decisions. To support their mission they are developing a free data literacy platform.
We also meet with MATTR, a new organisation working to create a “web of trust,” allowing people and organisations to protect what is theirs, easily prove who they are, and share only what they need to get things done online.
MATTR have been working with and contributing to the open source community to see how fundamental digital challenges can be solved using their “web of trust” concept.
As trust is the key focus for the Digital Council this year, we look forward to visiting MATTR’s CoLab to see what they have been developing.
Media interviews
Our chair Mitchell Pham caught up with Radio New Zealand reporter Nona Pelletier on Friday to talk about representing the Digital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand on the Asia Society’s Global Council.
The interview followed an announcement on Tuesday of Mitchell’s new appointment in our fortnightly blog called: Taking New Zealand’s digital story to the Asia Pacific region.
Countdown is on until Techweek kicks off
Please join us on Friday for a Techweek 2020 TV panel discussion on Friday 31 July at 2pm-3pm.
Our panel session is called: The future of digital and data driven technology in New Zealand. What do we want it to look like; who should benefit; and why should we care?
We look forward to discussing these issues and more with our host Ryan Ashton.
Other sessions we’re attending (in our various roles and as representatives of the Digital Council) include:
Monday 27 July — join Digital Council chair Mitchell Pham at an APEC-hosted event called: Digital New Zealand in the Asia-Pacific.
Monday 27 July — join the Digital Council’s Marianne Elliott at the Digital Identity NZ session called: Trust and identity, Digital Identity NZ 2020 research findings.
Tuesday 28 July — join Council chair Mitchell Pham at an EMA-hosted Techweek event called: Rebuilding New Zealand’s economy digitally.
Thursday 30 July — join the Digital Council’s Rachel Kelly on a Techweek TV panel discussion called: Chorus look at innovation and connectivity in times of change.
Thursday 30 July — join Digital Council members Marianne Elliott and Colin Gavaghan at the Digital Identity NZ session called: Identity as taonga — trustworthy care of our identity.
Friday 31 July — join the Digital Council’s Colin Gavaghan at the Digital Identity NZ session called: Diversity in identity — building identity solutions for everyone.
