August 11, 2016
Hi Tech network focusses on rangatahi
Indigenous innovation is on the agenda today at a hui in Auckland run by the Hi Tech Youth Network with the backing of Callaghan Innovation.
Callaghan's Anne Gibbon says the government's tech industry promotion agency runs a number of programmes for Maori, including trips to Silicon Valley and innovators' bootcamps at Stanford University.
She says the Hi Tech Youth Network has a special focus on Maori and Pasifika students, and the hui is a chance for it to show its work.
"Their goal is to reach 50,000 students by 2020 to support them in learning media arts and technology and innovation skills but also the intangibles of presenting and confidence in speaking and putting their work in the world and design thinking," she says.
Anne Gibbon says design thinking means putting ideas into a physical form or prototype early on, so they can be tested on users..
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