Real questions from a recent event on skills - governance, leadership, professional development and more.

Some good news arrived this week with the go-live for the National Data Platform, a common platform for national datasets that were previously scattered across the dozens of entities that have now been brought into the Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora fold.

Spending time offline and using strategies to help manage screen time are being recognised as critical skills. Learning them may benefit wellbeing and productivity, and help to set boundaries around social media use.

Taking the open source path gives Meta a big point of differentiation with its rivals and the ability to leverage the wisdom of the open source community.

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This blog themes up the discussions from ITP Members on the Crowdstrike outage including our reliance on SAAS, automated deployment, adequate testing and more.