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Building the female talent pipeline in the Tech Industry
Recently the Chief Executive of Spark publicly quoted that he was going to tackle gender quality in the organisation he ran. Why? simply because it makes great business sense, it impacts the bottom line. A no-brainer right? So why is it we still have industries like technology, so dominated by males? We know it makes sense, we know it impacts profit and the bottom line directly, yet our women are not progressing in this industry.
Brislen on Tech
How to find the people to build our brave new world.... Fuji Xerox faces an uphill struggle... And let's sleep on it: how woke is New Zealand (to the dangers of TXT messages)?
Brislen on Tech
Women in technology... the need for better mental health provisions for our founders and innovators... and the right to privacy - now available as a service.
New programme to battle skills shortage
Only 3% of 15 year old girls want a career in Digital Technology, and of those women globally with STEM degrees a staggering 40% leave our industries to never return. Balance wise, the OECD reported r…
Ready player one: Games development grows in NZ
An industry worth $100 million a year with most of that revenue from exports, growing at 12%. That's how the Game Developers Association (NZGDA) describes the New Zealand computer game industry in all…
Just Another F'ing Agile Conference
Most conferences have fewer than 50% female speakers in their line-up and that's never a good thing. Enter #JAFAC which has an all-female line-up and is selling out fast.
So what is #JAFAC and why …
Brislen on Tech
Goldilocks has many sisters ... Samsung's phones burn more than just the casing ... Vodafone can't buy Sky: what does that mean for content? ... and let's have that conversation about women in technol…
Skills shortage persists yet diversity goes unaddressed
Diversity in the workplace continues to be an unresolved problem with 40% of companies admitting they don't have a policy to address a lack of diversity among new hires.
Yet the same companies are …
Brislen on Tech this week
The Government's CERT advisory board has been assembled ready, willing and able to build the finest emergency response team this country has ever seen... The number of women in the ICT industry has fa…
US data shows women in tech numbers declining
The IT sector remains male dominated with the number of women in the IT industry falling in the US from its peak in 1990.
