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This week I was on RNZ’s Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan talking about the future of NZ’s tech sector, and more specifically, what’s covered off in the Government’s draft Industry Transformation Plan for digital tech.

It’s a pretty exciting piece of work. For the first time, there’s a real focus on t...

Ah – the good old days when Facebook was the only social platform you had to really worry about to keep up with friends and where people just typed out “Danika is… at school.”

It was easy to use, easy to share, relatively drama-free at the get-go and it had the best of intentions. Surely, Zuckerberg...

When we think "automation”, most of us probably visualise something like a robot factory with hordes of machines assembling cars that have replaced manual labour. Undoubtedly, manufacturing was the first wave of automation. Big, labour-intensive activities tend to make a very good business case...

Records are moving digital but what is the difference between the two types, why does it matter, and what's in the future?

Electronic medical record (EMR): patient chart from a single practice including all medical and treatment history. It's exclusive usually to the single office. Electronic health ...

Unfortunately, digital transformation isn’t just about getting into the Cloud. That may be an important part of the journey, but digital transformation is an ongoing process - it’s not a destination where you arrive.

Neither is the Cloud. Getting started in cloud computing is ridiculously easy as yo...

I had a meeting recently where a person used a phrase that I thought was so great I wished I’d thought of it myself.

They said they were looking for a “digital mentor” for their organisation.

Mentoring is an important activity. Most accomplished business leaders will point to a person in their lives...

Late in 2021, we got exciting news from the Beehive that a new border exception would be coming to support our rapidly growing tech sector. We’re still waiting for the first draft of the full process to come from Minister David Clark, but plans are already in motion as to how we will select candidat...

Last year former British Prime Minister Tony Blair referenced artificial intelligence and quantum computing amongst other things in an article about political change. Whatever your political leanings, you know that when a populist politician references a particular technology that it has entered the...

In the early days of information technology, women were amongst the pioneers.

Many ascribe the first computational thinking to Ada Lovelace, the daughter of the poet Byron in the first half of the 19th century, and the programming language ADA is named after her for that reason.

I’m not sure I fully ...

I consider myself a seasoned IT professional. Would you engage my services to design your marketing campaign for your summer swimwear range? Should we go tropical or polka dot? So, why do so many companies put Finance in charge of IT?

I see one of the core subjects in the GradDipCA for New Zealand a...