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Auckland Council s Southern Initiative offers tech scholarships for Maori and Pacifika
The Southern Initiative champions, stimulates and enables social and community innovation in south Auckland. Credit: Rob O Neill
Auckland Council is addressing a disconcerting statistic – that Maori and Pasifika workers make up just two per cent of the NZ tech sector – with a new partnership.
In an effort to boost diversity in one of the world’s fastest growing sectors, Auckland Council’s Southern Initiative is partnering with career development organisation Mission Ready, to offer 31 tech-pathway scholarships early next year.
Press Release – Mission Ready HQ
Maori & Pasifika make up just 2% of NZ tech sector
Auckland Council’s addressing the disconcerting statistic of Maori & Pasifika making up just 2% of New Zealand’s tech-sector workforce.
In an effort to boost a critical diversity of influence in one of the world’s fastest growing sectors, Auckland Council’s Southern Initiative is partnering with career development organisation Mission Ready, to offer 31 tech-pathway scholarships early next year.
Mission Ready director Diana Sharma says New Zealand’s tech industry needs to avoid the consequences of an alarmingly disproportionate representation of Maori & Pasifika within their sector when those cultures represent a fast growing proportion of the country’s population – 16.5% and 9% respectively.
Friday, 11 December 2020, 10:30 am
Maori & Pasifika make up just 2% of NZ tech
sector
Auckland Council’s addressing the
disconcerting statistic of Maori & Pasifika making up
just 2% of New Zealand’s tech-sector workforce.
In
an effort to boost a critical diversity of influence in one
of the world’s fastest growing sectors, Auckland
Council’s Southern Initiative is
partnering with career development organisation Mission Ready, to
offer 31 tech-pathway scholarships early next
year.
Mission Ready director Diana Sharma says New
Zealand’s tech industry needs to avoid the consequences of
an alarmingly disproportionate representation of Maori &
Pasifika within their sector when those cultures represent a