Jun 30, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
Crown options for Māori media have a colonial “feel and smell” to them, writes the University of Auckland’s Dr Claire Charters Are the Government’s Options for Māori Media unconstitutional, contrary to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, international Indigenous peoples’...
Jun 30, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
How we come out of this crisis will depend on how well we are able to imagine new futures, and turn those visions into reality. In this first part of a two-part series on vision-making, Jess Berentson-Shaw looks at what sets apart an effective vision that can lead to...
Jun 30, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
After the lockdown, it is now clear to many that “work” has been conceptualised and operationalised in a way that excludes many people and causes avoidable stress. So how do we deconstruct those ideas? asks Jess Berentson-Shaw This week public servants in...
Jun 29, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
A type of artificial intelligence is being used to research Covid-19, but the experts behind it must consider the social implications of their work – and participation from diverse voices Machine learning is a kind of artificial intelligence where algorithms are...
Jun 29, 2020 | Uncategorised
Parliamentarians and their staff want to use evidence to support their decisions, but they can often feel ‘bombarded’ with the sheer amount of material that is sent their way. Drawing on the findings of a wide ranging study looking at the use of evidence by UK...
Jun 29, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
Being in lockdown revealed, worsened or even created inequities that we now must address, writes Dr Karen V. Fernandez And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and...
Jun 29, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
Angie Tangaere & Penny Hagen This blog is the second in a series of reflections and projections from the Lab and the teams that we work with about equity, systems health and systems change in the context of COVID-19. Originally published by The Auckland Co-Design...
Jun 28, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
By Jennifer Frost – Systemic white violence against black Americans is alive and well, and it’s white violence that sustains white supremacy Current scenes from the United States are both familiar and shocking. George Floyd’s life being brutally snuffed...
Jun 27, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
Dr Louise Humpage was hoping Covid would help Kiwis better understand how tough it is to live off the benefit, but the newly unemployed are not being treated like main beneficiaries at all Foolishly, I had thought one serendipitous outcome of the Covid-19 crisis would...
Jun 26, 2020 | Policy Commons Blog
Anomalies in the policy for superannuitants with overseas pensions are an indictment on the justice process in New Zealand, write Susan St John and Dr Claire Dale Along with many others, the Retirement Policy and Research Centre has worked assiduously for more than a...
