In the 1990s it made sense for tech to sit under Finance—digital was just an unknown cost centre. But today? With cloud, AI, and data-driven productivity gains on the line, burying digital inside Finance means missed opportunities to do more with less. Transformation can’t be led through a cost-cutting lens—it needs to be driven from the strategic table.

Outdated frameworks and analogue thinking are holding Aotearoa back — it’s time our policy makers were equipped for a digital future.

What is advocacy really? How often do the efforts of industry impact outcomes? Today we had a win - Digital Tech has been recognised in the vocational education model.

Digital Tech and Creative were left out of the Industry Skills Board Vocational Education model - here is our latest effort to ask the Minister to help establish one for ourselves so we can embrace earn-while-you-learn models.

Summarised submission to the government on the proposal to establish Industry Skills Boards excluding Digital Technologies, Creative and others as industries.

IT Professionals, WeCreate and TUANZ have issued a press release laying out our concerns with the announcement Digital Tech and Creative sectors are excluded from the new Industry Standards Boards model - which favours industries who already have apprenteship and traineeship programmes.