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Always doing my best to help achieve our dreams. The future is digital!

Sometimes, to do your best to be new, it is better to be old

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I’m  so happy  and pleased DORA is coming to visit  Whanganui for two weeks from 18 November 2024. DORA (Digital On-Road Access) is  Digital Inclusion Alliance Aotearoa’s mobile learning centre.  https://steppingup.nz/programmes/dora/ This year we have been focusing on helping people to learn popular online health apps such as Manage My Health, myindici 2.0, or The Doctors […]

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The Power of Thinking and Starting with Why

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We don’t have the money, so we have to think. – Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) on Kiwi ingenuity (Image pottery sculpture by Robin Murdoch) https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/rutherford-of-nelson-1972 Whilst not quite as of earth-shattering  importance to the splitting of the atom, nevertheless , attention to quickly fixing the digital divide must be given more priority. Probably Rutherford would not

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My Plan to Go from Good to Great

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This isn’t going to be easy! According to Jim Collins, the path to upping my game to the next level is by confronting the most brutal facts of my current reality. Crikey, achieving this will test my commitment to honesty, respect, self-discipline, and mindfulness to the limits. This construct is part of creating inputs of

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Upon Fragility

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In my digital inclusion mahi, fragility is a constant state which motivates me to strive to stay strong to succeed. Fragility may be regarded as a weakness and debilitating condition for some, but I love fragility’s connection with exquisiteness, fineness, and brittleness.* Equally interesting to me is that their antonyms include roughness and rudeness, solidity

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Machine Learning with Images for ALL

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Here is a write up about machine learning with images and a great Webinar run by TUANZ recently. Unsupervised machine learning  has become highly influential in our lives and needs to be more widely understood. Here are some descriptions of some of the  key concepts involved, discussion about the implications of its use, plus commentary

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CASE STUDY – Alistair Fraser, DIAA Digital Ambassador, Whanganui – Driving Miss Dora

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  Driving DORA around the country has been a truly life-changing and wonderful experience for me. Often, I relocate DORA to a host partner who then uses a local driver to move her to different venues. I have learned so much in handing over DORA and briefing them about her unique set-up. Heavy vehicle drivers

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AI + Communication Symposium held at Auckland University of Technology on Wednesday 6 September 2023

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THE HUMAN AND THE MACHINE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CHANGING WORLD Congratulations to Auckland University of Technology (AUT) for hosting this excellent event.  What a fantastic opportunity it was to hear such impressive and thought-provoking presentations by outstanding academic experts about how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our lives. The Symposium investigated AI’s impact across

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