“The Ministry takes a ‘hands-off’ approach to the way that schools acquire software, providing few standards or guidelines and very little by way of financial or training resources."

Edtech surveillance by multinational tech companies to harvest pupils' personal data is provoking controversy, clampdowns and court cases in the US and Europe.

Yes, edible insects are a thing, an increasingly big thing. According to Global Market Insights the market for edible insects is set to grow to over half a billion US dollars by 2023.

For most organisations, the basic unit of information is a document. Kami is a browser extension which lets you view, highlight, annotate, and collaborate over a fixed base document

The current housing crisis and rising homelessness in New Zealand are causing a huge strain on emergency accommodation in shelters and the like. SeekShelter is a web app that manages shelter occupancy in real-time and provides transparency to other shelters in the area.

The mission of Reyedr is to connect motorcyclists with their machines in a way that transforms the experience by delivering crucial info about their bike, route and ride group

Run your startup like a science experiment – document your assumptions, validate whether or not they’re true, alter your business parameters (pivot) to incorporate your learnings, repeat until you either achieve product-market fit or run out of resources.

Open Source // Open Society ran its first conference ran last year, and the organisers and participants were so thrilled with the results that they’ve committed to making it an ongoing annual event.

Gamefroot makes it easy for anyone to become a game designer. They’ve built a platform which lets anyone make an HTML5 game using a great library of templates and objects, a super-easy Scratch-like scripting language, drag-and-drop construction, and instant publishing to the web.

Kitset.io allows anyone to build cross platform apps without the need to code. They use some pretty cool AI techniques to fill in the gaps between people and machines.

Let’s face it – businesses do their business with varying degrees of care around how they treat the environment, their community, and their employees. As a consumer, what can you do to support businesses that that behave well?

If your kids are anything like mine, they love to play games on their handheld devices. So much so, that it can be difficult to get them outside, even on a fine day.

Would you like to earn free minutes and/or megabytes on your mobile data plan? Postr powers apps that show you tailored adverts on your mobile phone’s lockscreen, and reward you with free megabytes and minutes.

Tradify provides an app that makes it easy to keep track of time and materials working on client jobs, and integrates with accounting systems like Xero and MYOB so you can spend less time doing paperwork.

It’s a tough job being a veterinarian. You can’t really communicate directly with your patients, and their owners are notoriously unreliable in the way they report their pet’s behaviour.

Mibiz, sponsored by Inland Revenue to reduce the problem of high failure rates of new businesses, particularly among those formed by recent migrants.

These days, everyone is a videographer. And while anyone can shoot footage of reasonable quality, turning it into a compelling clip is a specialist skill.

Most feminine hygiene products have environmental issues. I’d like to think that the things we put in intimate places in our bodies are pure and natural, but that’s not the case for most tampons.

WATCH OUT, YOU’RE ABOUT TO STEP INTO A SINKHOLE!! ThunderMaps enables businesses and governments to crowdsource hazard locations, and then let employees and citizens know when they’re in danger in real time.

Do you really know how much your customers like your product or service? Really? If so, you’re probably measuring your Net Promoter Score (NPS), the global standard for measuring customer loyalty.

Banqer built their Minimum Viable Product (MVP), a gaming platform for kids to earn virtual currency (funny money) at school, and and generally learn how to work with money in a safe environment

Nobody likes doing household chores, especially kids. But a team from this year’s Startup Weekend Dunedin has figured out a way to make the allocation and completion of chores fun and rewarding for both kids and their parents.

That’s right, add two lines of JavaScript onto your login form and you’ll be making your web site, and the world, a much safer place.

There are few things more powerful than selfless love. When we are at our lowest points emotionally, receiving a loving gesture from someone, even a stranger, especially a stranger, can be life changing.