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Top 10 Strategies for
New Zealand We are commencing a series of “Top 10s” from New Zealanders who will offer their ideas, forecasts, strategies and projections for New Zealand 2007-2010 and beyond. Initiating the series is John Williams, former owner of the Marton company PEC (New Zealand) Ltd, which was internationally respected as the world's first organization to design and market microprocessor-based petrol pumps and service station POS terminals. John is a passionate advocate for an inclusive export-based vision for New Zealand. READ MORE... |
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Back to the Future The genesis of the "New Zealand as Edge" metaphor came from a conversation started at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in California in 1995 with Kevin Kelly, then founding editor of Wired magazine, about biological constructs aka change in the species always starts at the margins, the fringes, the edges. Brian Sweeney reports on TED 2007 in Monterey, California. READ MORE... |
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JaneInside Journey Within An introduction to JaneInside - a diary styled autobiography about a teenager's journey from the age of 12 to 21 written by Jane Thomsen. The story follows Jane as she struggles with the issues facing teenagers and eventually into a downward spiral of relationship problems, drugs and her own near suicide. JaneInside is being published with the support of Kevin Roberts and all profits form the New Zealand sales are going to the TYLA Trust. READ MORE... |
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Global
Newzmakers Top-60 2002 Back by popular demand - NZEdge and The Sunday Star Times present the Top-60 International New Zealand newsmakers for 2002. The selections represent the diversity, colour and flavour of contemporary NZ achievment, from the well-known: Peter Jackson and LotR team, to the surprising: the edge behind the Apple iMac, Shrek, Parkinson's cure hopes and MTV. READ MORE... |
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Alan Gibbs Floating an Idea The Gibbs Aquada is a world first - a new technology which New Zealand industrialist and entrepreneur Alan Gibbs claims will "revolutionise a portion of the automobile industry over the next two decades." Gibbs calls the high speed amphibian technology "the most significant innovation in the automobile industry in the last 100 years. Essentially we've doubled the utility of the motor vehicle. " READ MORE... |
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