News

July 2024

ACE Sector Conference 2024

Wed, 2024-07-03 15:30

This year’s ACE Sector Conference theme, ‘Tuia te Kōrero, Whiria te Tangata – What is the Story?’ explored the importance and impact of stories, knowledge and wisdom and how they’ve been transferred and transmitted from the distant past (and our ancestors), as well as our own recent past to the present day. The imperative ‘tuia te kōrero’ describes the threads of stories that different people and perspectives bring together over time, and the verb ‘whiria’ refers to those threads weaving, plaiting and twisting together to become a strengthening bind.

A New Approach to Te Tiriti

Wed, 2024-07-10 16:02

Roimata Smail (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, England, Scotland, Ireland) was a keynote speaker at the ACE Sector Conference, leading a session called Our Story – Te Tiriti. Roimata is a lawyer who has specialised in Te Tiriti o Waitangi cases before the Courts for the past two decades. She has built a legal practice around the pursuit of equity for Māori with an approach that is forward looking, positive and pragmatic.

Down the Rabbit Hole

Wed, 2024-07-17 16:06

Day two of the ACE Sector Conference started with a fascinating session on misinformation and how to tackle it, presented by Dr Andrew Chen, an adjunct senior research fellow with Koi Tū; The Centre for Informed Futures.

The words disinformation and misinformation have rapidly become part of our daily language and are often used interchangeably, but as Andrew clearly pointed out, these words have two very different meanings and intents, with misinformation being the sharing of false information and disinformation being the deliberate intent to mislead.

A Bit Sus

Wed, 2024-07-24 16:16

Mandy Henk’s ACE Sector Conference workshop – A Bit Sus – flowed perfectly from the presentation by Dr Andrew Chen, with her focus on tackling the misinformation avalanche.

Tō Mātou Ao, A Mātou Pūrākau – Stories of Our Lives

Wed, 2024-07-31 16:29

This year Literacy Waitākere will celebrate the publication of their ninth book authored by their students and produced as a resource to ensure that adult learners, facing literacy challenges, have reading material that is relevant and contextualised for our Aotearoa New Zealand situation.