Infrastructure for Innovation

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Haere Mai Stewards

of the land: Tangata Whenua

of the plan: City Council

of the cloud: iiiii

Now for the Future

upgraded digital: systems, security, performance

local talent: less money leaving Tauranga

international ecosystem: free software blueprints

Hippie’s Free Software : $5

30 years ago: distributed Free Software

Provided value: as a student

Open Blueprints: encouraged to share and change

Paid to Learn: while contributing value

Firm Foundations

Many years later, a Global Advisor:

Cloud Native Compute Foundation: Catalyst provides Certified Kubernetes

LF Public Health: NZ COVID App uses GAEN

Free Software Foundation: Public Money? Public Code!

Everyone in this room has used software from the these Foundations.

My mentor Dan Kohn, created the Open Heath Foundation to help public health authorities use open source software to fight COVID-19. He helped coordinate Google and Apple to create the exposure framework used by most of the world. I’m proud to say that code is used within New Zealand’s COVID tracing app, which is also open source.

Earlier this year, they worked with the US Government to help create an Open Programmable and Secure 5G End to End stack.

There is too much loss of productivity and innovation due to the absence of re-usable tools and data.

I think New Zealand is well placed to go further, together by curating local talent connected to the global ecosystem of innovation.

It’s the reason I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life in New Zealand.