Career Panel Event for Women in Ocean Science

This is well worth watching to understand that the government makes choices, bad choices in regards to the public health system. The video link is at a time stamp near the end with a message of hope and change from Craig Renney. Fundamentally, it is this message that needs to be taken to heart and acted on. As it is for the public health sector, it is for the rest of the public sector including research.If we are to have a system that functions for the many, we need to push for political change. That's it. Anyone want to contribute to a manifesto for public good policies?

This article addresses the issues with cloud based smart home devices and the many problems with them (privacy and obsolescence). It suggests that the software Home Assistant has gotten much more user-friendly than it has been in the past. As I mentioned in the webinar about data sovereignty, we intend to add solar panels and batteries to our set up. An important aspect of that for us is to have hardware that is compatible with Home Assistant. That will allow us to avoid reliance on cloud based software.

I was invited by my friend @Karaitiana Taiuru to do this webinar on sovereign computing. It is for a general audience who are interested in shifting away from multinational IT companies for their computing. The kōrero covers a lot of information based on 25+ years of experience using software that respects software users. It expands on some of the ideas underpinning this post about small / medium business IT infrastructure.

In response to questions put to her by Debbie Ngarewa Packer in the House today about the removal of Te Tiriti o Waitangi from the Education and Training Act, Erica Stanford made the following assertions: I will deal with these assertions one by one. The Delegation of Duty School boards are Crown entities, and so […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-11-06T08:35:13+0000

The removal of Te Tiriti o Waitangi from Section 127 of the Education and Training Act also spills over into strategic plans. For the uninitiated, school strategic plans are how a school board translates the high level legislative direction to boards found in Section 127 into something that is meaningful for their community. This localising […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-11-05T05:37:04+0000

The impending removal of Te Tiriti o Waitangi from the Education and Training Act means its principles — Partnership, Participation, and Protection — are gone too. It is a mistake to view their removal as a niche policy debate or ‘just a Māori issue’. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The fact is, these […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-11-04T04:11:02+0000

Today, I had confirmation in an OIA response that Learning First, a education consultancy based in Collingwood, played a key role in the development of our national curriculum docs. They provided “insights” to help the Ministry with international benchmarking. Little more detail was provided, but I do wonder why our Ministry did not have that […]# Content-Attribution # Source: bevanholloway.com Content Creator: Bevan Holloway Date: 2025-11-03T08:20:51+0000

Career Panel Event for Women in Ocean Science

This is side 2 of my sign for the Big Strike tomorrow. Simple message with a QR code to a short video by Gary Stevenson about how wealth inequality harms you.https://te-ara-paerangi.community/page/view-file?id=79

View the webinar here: https://genomics.nz/myth-busting-de-extinction-recorded-webinar/

An outline of social media I've experienced, what I was drawn to them and what I'm after now. An attempt to capture it while currently feeling no allegiance.

This piece describes the background of the community site and its transition into a social media site focused on research, advocacy, and capability. It describes the underpinning software, sovereignty status, and parent organisation.