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Tātai Aho Rau : Pushing the boundaries of educational possibility
Canterbury Pasifika ICT Strategy
The Pasifika people are among groups identified by the government as likely to be disadvantaged in terms of ICT access and skills, therefore the central aim of this strategy was to develop Canterbury Pasifika Ltd as a centre of excellence, innovation and entrepreneurism in ICT. The project was aimed at building skills and capacity in the community and included Pasifika arts and culture in contexts such as video games, virtual worlds, mobile applications and social networking sites like Bebo, Facebook and MySpace.
CORE Education worked with Canterbury Pasifika Ltd to develop and implement a Pacific ICT audit that informed a Canterbury Pasifika strategy, the results of which helped to establish a multilingual Pasifika Community eLearning centre. Training providers were brought in and culturally relevant ICT training programmes were developed and delivered in community languages to 100 members of the Pasifika community. The development of online website communities were created as a communication tool to keep the Pasifika community informed both locally and globally. The project also sought to meet the needs of Pasifika business and community organisations by making the centre available for them to hold meetings and giving them access to broadband Internet.
Canterbury Pasifika Report (Download PDF, 163kb)
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