Category Archives: New Zealand Institute

Let’s make it happen

Posted on May 26, 2009 by

On Tuesday last week I was lucky enough to listen to an interesting range of cool people give 5 minute talks on the topics of their choice. (ok – only one person hit the 5 minute market exactly, and he … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet Business, Life, New Zealand Institute, NZ Business, Trade Me | 5 Comments

Two McKinsey pieces on education – do read them

Posted on April 24, 2009 by

Two astonishing reports on education from McKinsey. The first shows the effect that the USA’s poor schools have had on their economy – and was just released. It finds the economic loss in the order of US$2,400 billion to $4,200 … Continue reading →

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Dissecting the NZ Job Summit output – Group outputs

Posted on March 2, 2009 by

The Government sponsored Jobs summit was on Friday, and on the beehive website you can read the input documents, breakout descriptions, attendees, power point bullet outputs and  a top 20 laundry list. So lets get to it. I believe a … Continue reading →

Posted in New Zealand Institute, NZ Business, Politics | 2 Comments

Set WiFi free

Posted on January 17, 2008 by

Over on Kiwiblog DPF guiltily confesses to using someone elses open Wireless connection for some internet time, and a trivial amount of data. There are several things wrong with this picture: 1: It isn’t normal to find open wireless connections … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadband, Internet Business, media, New Zealand Institute | 2 Comments

NZInstitute BB report: Digital media benefits are underestimated

Posted on October 15, 2007 by

Continuing a series of comments on the excellent NZ Institute Broadband report, we turn to page 8: Digital media. NZ Institute estimate $800m in extra benefits, with the tree showing $680m to $1.03bn. Here’s the top half: Let’s look the … Continue reading →

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NZInstitute BB report: Telepresence growth benefits are limited

Posted on September 26, 2007 by

That’s the second part of the tree on page 7 of the NZ Institute report. It shows total annual benefits of $165-$335m in increased exports from decent broadband allowing better telepresence. Telepresence I guess is defined by the authors as … Continue reading →

Posted in Air Travel, Broadband, Internet Business, New Zealand Institute, NZ Business, telecom | 1 Comment

NZInstitute BB report: Telepresence costs savings are minimal

Posted on September 26, 2007 by

Let’s start comments on the NZ Institute Broadband report with the top chunk of the slide on Telepresence, which is page 7. It is the first page that shows how the topline number of $2.7-$4.4 billion in economic benefits is … Continue reading →

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The NZ Institute report – the benefits of broadband

Posted on September 26, 2007 by

If you are frustrated as hell at the ponderous pace of broadband adoption and speeds in New Zealand, then the New Zealand Institute report: DEFINING A BROADBAND ASPIRATION: HOW MUCH DOES BROADBAND MATTER AND WHAT DOES NEW ZEALAND NEED? is … Continue reading →

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