Restoring habitats, protecting native birds, eradicating pests, and managing national parks: these are just some of things the Department of Conservation (DOC) does every day. But who would have thought that DOC has also been at the forefront of efforts to restore the promise of e-democracy? From the early days of the World Wide Web,…
David Hall, editor of A Careful Revolution: How to Survive the Low-Emissions Transition and his co-authors are to be congratulated for presenting a comprehensive set of perspectives on the daunting task facing us as we embark on a low-emissions transition. The authors in this collection are mindful that this book, part of an ongoing series…
We have a ‘crisis of listening’ and it’s adversely affecting organisations of all types. These are key findings of major international research in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom by Jim Macnamarra [1,2]. Do these findings hold here in New Zealand? Do they hold for cooperatives as much as they do for other…
“AI is perhaps the most talked about technology of our time, promising to transform fundamental aspects of how we live, work and play. The capability of AI to perform increasingly more tasks that were previously the sole preserve of humans will free people up to focus on higher value, more fulfilling activities. However, this also…
Imagine an online discussion about tax that was open to the public and hosted on a news website. What would it be like? I see something barking, almost rabid, … there’d be those who see government as bad, tax as theft from the successful. And there’d be others with a diametrically opposed view – governments…