Hi folks, You may be interested to hear of a new initiative to promote the place of science, technology and innovation in New Zealand.
According to the guys involed, the goal of the Innovation Wave is to promote a national attitudinal change celebrating innovation, creativity and excellence as key drivers for New Zealand's success. It aims to build a new national confidence and pride based on knowledge. At the heart of the Innovation Wave is a new style of one-minute television mini-programmes designed to be informative, entertaining and, most of all, inspirational. The programmes will play during the network news on Television One five days a week for at least 40 weeks of the year starting in March. It is planned to make this an on-going project for the next few years. There is support from Unlimited, the Sunday Star Times and TVNZ's nzoom site, which makes for a pretty big potential audience. Innovation Wave will be divided into five core themes: 1. Clever Science Stories of scientific breakthroughs - such as Alan McDiarmid's synthetic metals 2. Bright Futures Focusing on lifelong learning and knowledge collaboration 3. Knowledge Champions Celebrating our entrepreneurs and their world-beating products - such as Orca wetsuits 4. Enterprising Ideas The innovations that will transform a commodity-based economy to a knowledge economy 5. High Tech Information and communication technology is the lifeblood of a knowledge society I'm sure there are plenty of suitable projects and people within our ranks to fill a couple of minutes... My contacts are with the Clever Science people -- I'll be seeing them next Wednesday. They are looking for stories now. I'll suss out the contacts for the other streams of the Wave (or should that be currents? :-) If you've got science-related contacts or applications, you can contact the researchers at Clever Science at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the thinking caps on! Cheers, Vicki Hyde ========================================================= SPIS Ltd, Box 19-760, Christchurch, NZ http://www.spis.co.nz * FREE TurboNote memo: http://TurboPress.com/tbnote.htm * Print-to-Web automation http://TurboPress.com * Web design, automation and hosting specialists --> via Canterbury Software email forum: Success through Connections Email your messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Leave or rejoin the list: http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/forum.htm
