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What will it take to make New Zealand be best country in the world to live in?

What role can New Zealand play in evolving a playbook to operate successfully in a world interconnected with IoT and Smart Contracts and automated by AI?

Big Questions​

  • What is the role of New Zealand in the world?
  • What is unique point of difference that offers maximum potential?
  • What is holding us back the most? How can that be addressed?

Agency​

Knowledge comes in two main categories:

  1. Science: Knowledge about the nature of the world, what exists and how it works
  2. Technology: Knowledge of how to transform the physical and social aspects of our environment.

Layers of knowledge built up from experiments to explore potential to grow.

  1. Embodied knowledge - Knowledge embedded in tools where you don't need to know how a tool is made to gain leverage extracting value from using it.
  2. Codified knowledge - Knowledge that exists in symbolic space as codes, recipes, formulas, algorithms, and manuals
  3. Knowhow - Knowledge that exists in people's heads that can't be easily explained or transferred through conversation, requiring extensive practice, growth experiments.

Agency comes from capability to leverage science (best practice protocols) and technology effectively to transform the world for a better quality of life.

Scoreboard​

CategoryPerspectivePotential
Culture
Know-How
Resources (Ownership)
Finances
Regulation

Potential​

Traditionally fast to adopt innovative technologies and lead with progressive governance.

Instead of thinking as Kiwis living overseas as brain drain, we should think of Kiwis living abroad as a network of ambassadors and potential sales force.

Culture​

Flowing rugby demands alignment of decision making across people with diverse range of physiological gifts to coordination effectively to synchronise in achieving a common goal. Better decisions, taken faster, executed effectively wins the game.

  • Cannot play free flowing rugby without a strong platform
  • Focus on following process and the right results typically follow
  • Best teams have strong links to their community
  • Use storytelling to build culture and ensure newcomers feel they belong
  • Win the collisions, win the game

With AI and open source protocols everything can be copied easily except culture

Opportunity: Must become better at exporting culture. Go any major city in the world and you find an Aussie, Irish, South African or English pub.

Where are the Kiwi pubs/cafes? We can export a reinvention of the rugby club a cultural centre.

Culture creates network effects, brain drain converts into a decentralised salesforce.

Put soul back into business, the ghost into the machine

Roaming​

Essentials​

Essential Human Needs, Strong Identity and Belief System.

Real Estate​

What would it take to run on an onchain property development project in New Zealand?

Business​

NZ Venture Capital

Commerce​

Industry​

How does NZ stack up as position to provide most valuable resources for the future of commerce?

  • What opportunities does that present?
  • Which industries are lagging behind?
  • How can tech cover gaps?

Industries:

Websites

Regulation​

SPVs

Technology​

AI​

Crypto​

Gaming​

Who is influential in blockchain gaming?

Transport​

Queenstown to Wanaka

Innovators​

  • Wayne Brown
  • Aditya Das / Techemy Ltd
  • Kyle Den Hartog | Senior Software Engineer, Brave New Software, LLC
  • Thomas Scovell | Chief Customer Officer, Alkimi
  • Marta Adamczyk | Head of Business Development, SubQuery
  • Pramodya De Alwis | Head of Technology, Futureverse
  • Sally Hodges | Portfolio Manager & Tech Educator
  • Chris Kwon | IT Intern, Rocket Lab & ETHGlobal Finalist
  • Yaser S. | Investment Manager of Web3, UniServices
  • Gustavo Chiechelski | CTO, Tech Lead & Web3 Developer, Reap

Podcasts​

Content Providers

Episodes