Kanapu and Kiwa Digital have officially launched “Kanapu Connect,” a new navigation platform designed to bridge the gaps in Aotearoa’s research, science, innovation, and technology (RSIT) sector.
This platform serves as a central hub, making it easier for both experts and those new to the field to navigate complex terminologies, funding opportunities, and professional connections.
“Kanapu Connect is a system navigation platform for those that are operating in the Research, Science, Innovation and Technology sector. It’s one of those sectors that a lot of people don’t really use the same terminologies,” Kanapu’s Community Engagement Lead, Ahere Hapi-Harrison said.
“If you’re this person, what would improve system navigation for you? And some people said it would be great if Kanapu Connect or this system navigation platform that we’re talking about would connect me as a user to another user or me as a person to organisations within the sector or me as a user to funding opportunities or resources within the sector,” she said.
Steven Renata, Managing Director of Kiwa Digital, emphasises the collaborative nature of the effort to get Kanapu Connect up and running, noting that trust remains a foundational element of the project.
“One of the things that came to that sort of gestation from the kōrero was trust. So when you want to connect on a platform, there needs to be a certain element of trust,” says Renata.
“It’s the people in the back making sure that the technology is working and if you touch something it happens so that’s a natural behaviour for us because we care and we want to make sure when the lights go on, everything is operating as per normal,” he says.
Kanapu Connect – He Ara Whakatere Hou
Kua whakarewahia e Kanapu me Kiwa Digital a ‘Kanapu Connect,’ he pae whakatere hou hei āwhina i te hunga o te rāngai rangahau, pūtaiao, auahatanga me te hangarau (RSIT).
E ai ki a Poia Rewi, te Pouhere o Kanapu, i whakatūria tēnei pūmanawa hei whakahaere i te honohono a te iwi Māori i taua rāngai..
“He mea waihanga tēnei pūmanawa nā runga i te kite me te rongo ehara i te mea he māmā nei te honohono a te iwi Māori nei ki a ia anō, ki ngā mātauranga Māori, ngā wheako Māori i roto i tēnei rāngai o te pūtaiao, te rangahau, te auaha, te hangarau anō hoki,” hei tā Poia.
“Ka māmā tana tūhonohono ā-hapū, ā-hapori, ā-rāngai rānei, ā-kamupene rānei. Koinei te tino hua o tēnei, he māmā, he tere. Engari me aroaro ki te tangata nō te mea me whakaae ia kia tūari ia i āna kōrero, e pai te tūhono mai,” hei tāna anō.
“Otirā ko te hāngarau hoki i roto i tērā, ko te mōhiohio, te rangakura tērā.”
I tua atu i te honohono noa, e whai ana te pae ki te whakapiki i te mōhiotanga o te ao whānui ki ngā pūkenga Māori. “Kia kite ai hoki te ao Pākehā i tēnei ao nei. Ehara i te mea tāua te Māori engari he pūkenga, he akoranga kei roto i te Māori te āhua whakahaere a te Māori i a ia e whai hua ai ki te rāngai.”