Industry New Zealand Grant Announcement

22 July 2002Hon Jim AndertonSpeech NotesIndustryNew Zealand Grant Announcement: Thames Rosetta Stone ValleyRegionHauraki District CouncilTuesday 23 July 20023 pmPaeroaIm pleased to launch the Thames ValleyRegions Economic Development Strategy, which you completedin May of this year.The Strategy has brought togetherinformation about the region which has never before beenavailable in one document.It is an important step towardscreating an environment for building regional capability,creating jobs and achieving sustainable economic growth.When I first became Minister for Economic, Regional andIndustry Development, not one region had an EconomicDevelopment Strategy. Now, only two and a half yearslater, every single region in New Zealand has a viableprogressive and constructive plan in place. The regionsare learning to build on their own unique strengths insteadof trying to lure companies from other regions--a zero sumgain at best. This is new economy thinking, where eachregion focuses on what it can do best. As a result ofstrong regional growth, we are experiencing strong nationalgains.Congratulations on having worked together in apartnership that includes all three District Councils,members of the business community, and Maorirepresentatives. Participation and submissions came fromcommunity groups in all Rosetta Stone Chinese parts of the region.This isexactly the kind of partnership that the Ministry forEconomic Development and Industry New Zealand want toencourage.The Hauraki region has already developedsuccessful partnerships within your English for Speakers ofOther Languages pilot project. This project will bringChinese students into local schools for a linguistic andtourism experience. With ten colleges planning toparticipate it is a credit to the energy and enthusiasm ofthose involved. The project has also developed frombusiness links between the Thames Valley region andJianlibao Corporation, which operates a plant in Paeroa, andexports aerated beverages. The aim of the project is toset up the basis for further expansion into exporteducation. This has become an important contributor to theNew Zealand economy, and Thames Valley can offer beautifulcountryside, a strong heritage, and a heartland experience. This project shows a real commitment to buildingsustainable partnerships that will offer economic and socialopportunities for the Thames Valley region.Im pleased tobe able to announce further funding to help expand yourEconomic Development Strategy.The next stage is toconfirm which projects will be adopted by the partnership tobuild on the Economic Development Strategy you haveprepared.Industry New Zealand has granted $30,000 for anEconomic Development Action Plan, to scope the projects theregion will implement in the medium term. These will gothrough a joint planning and prioritisation process, andwill set Rosetta Stone French the stage for building on the region's strategicadvantages.New proposals will be assessed to seewhich will have the most positive economic impact, and amedium term plan will be adoptedI wish you great successand look forward to seeing your strategy being implementedand helping to bring progress and prosperity to yourregion.

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Maori first for 'second' language teaching

Maori first for 'second' language teachingIf learninga second language is desirable for Kiwi school Rosetta Stone outlet children thenMaori, the first and only legislated official language ofAotearoa New Zealand, should be given priority said Green MPMetiria Turei.Metiria said Prime Minister Helen Clark'scall for increased multi-lingualism had merit but said allteachers should be required to be proficient in Te Reobefore entering the teacher workforce."If we want ourkids to learn other languages then it should be Maorifirst," said Metiria, the Green Education spokesperson."Isupport the push for multi-lingual teaching at Rosetta Stone Arabic schools butfor the language curriculum to have integrity New Zealandchildren should be well-versed in their indigenous languagebefore they attempt any others."The Green Party wouldincrease the level of Te Reo proficiency for all traineeteachers so that all the children of Aotearoa New Zealandhave a stake in the future of our culture, regardless oftheir background. "We should learn our own language andculture before we learn others."I believe many of theemerging economies New Zealand does business with wouldappreciate dealing with a nation which embraces Rosetta Stone French and promotesits indigenous culture."There is a complacency amongstNew Zealanders who speak only English that the rest of theworld will make the effort to speak their language. It'stime we all woke up.

Home for me, well,it's a - kind of a complicated question

SECRETARYRICE: Absolutely, I'm there.(Laughter.)FOREIGN MINISTER SMITH: Well,the other Rosetta Stone outlet great change in Australian post-World War IIsociety is that we've extended life expectancy to 80 for menand 82 for women. So there is - girls, there is plenty oftime left. (Laughter.)MS. BARBER:Chantel, would you like to come forward and ask aquestion?QUESTION: Madame Secretary,where is home for you and how often do you get to gothere?SECRETARY RICE: Where is - I'msorry?FOREIGN MINISTER SMITH: Home,home.QUESTION: Where ishome?SECRETARY RICE: Home for me, well,it's a - kind of a complicated question. I was born inBirmingham, Alabama, and a lot of my family is still in theSouth. My parents and I were transports to Denver, Coloradowhen I was 12 years old. But I moved to Northern California,to Stanford University, where really, I now consider home,in 1981, which I now realize is well before any of you wereborn, but that's all right. It's - (Laughter.) So I've livedin Stanford - at Stanford and it's Northern California -it's right near San Francisco - for a lot of years. I reallyconsider it home. I don't get back very often, because it'sa long way from Washington to California. It's been aboutonce a year since I've been in Washington.But thePresident of the United States - a new President of theUnited States will be inaugurated at noon on January the20th, and shortly thereafter, I'll go back to California,because I love the Western United States and I reallyconsider it home now. (Applause.)MS.BARBER: And we probably only have time for one morequestion, but I know Danielle was really keen to ask thisone, so I'm glad we've had time forit.QUESTION: Madame Secretary, would youever consider running for president? And Rosetta Stone Arabic what would you seeas the major hurdles to overcome if you were torun?SECRETARY RICE: Well, the majorhurdle to overcome is I've never run for anything. I didn'tactually - I was just asking Lucy how one becomes head girland I understand you run for it. I never ran for head girl,Lucy, so - no, I'm really not somebody who is likely to bein political life as an elected official.I admirecolleagues and fri who do want to run for office. Infact, democracy dep on having good and honorable anddecent people who are willing and able to submit themselvesto the test of electoral politics, and then, having gottenthe mandate of the people, go on to remember where thatmandate comes from. Because I think one of the dangerssometimes of being in politics is that you can lose sight ofthe fact that it's quite a temporary mandate, you know? It'sonly something that's there by the will of the people aslong as the people will it.So I think it's a terrificsystem. There's certainly nothing better. But it's not quitefor me. I've been very lucky. And in the United States, wehave a system that's quite different than your system inAustralia, which is that our ministers, our secretaries,tend - do not come from elected office. Most often, they -my - I come out of academia. My colleague, the Secretary ofTreasury, came - was a Wall Street - chairman of GoldmanSachs in Wall Street. The Secretary of Defense, Bob Gates,was a longtime civil servant who then left and became auniversity president and came back. So we come fromdifferent backgrounds rather than coming through theparliamentary system and being a part of the partyapparatus. So we have a very - it's fortunate that you cango in and do your public service and then return to whateveryou came from. And deep in my soul, deep in my being, I'm anacademic. I love the world of ideas. I love writing. I loveteaching, especially. I miss teaching. I care deeply abouteducation because - and Stephen and I - as he said, weconnected on this point.I think education is importantfor a couple of reasons. First and foremost, because in ademocratic society, particularly one that is multiethnic,and like our societies are, people really have to believe,and it has to be true, that it doesn't matter where you camefrom, it matters where you're going. It really has to betrue that the circumstances of your birth are notdeterminative in how you're going to end up. And the onlyway to equalize different circumstances of birth is througheducation. And so it's critical to the proper functioning Rosetta Stone French ofmultiethnic democracies that people be educated.Secondly,if you don't have an educated population, the society juststagnates. One issue that I've been very interested in sinceI've been Secretary of State is women's empowerment aroundthe world. You know, before Afghanistan - the Taliban wasthrown out of power in Afghanistan, they would not allowwomen to be taught how to read. They wouldn't let women goto school. And the reason was very obvious.

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This model shows a nascent version of the current version of Cynefin

This is Rosetta Stone Store a pragmatic model, and tries to get people into the idea that they capabilities and objectives may not match up, along with the idea that informal networks and communities may provide a new way of handling uncertainty. It also contains what became a key feature of later writing, namely the a priori limitation of what expert knowledge can achieve. It put me at odds with a lot of the dominant thinking within knowledge management at the time which emphasised collecting experts in communities of practice.So all of this stuff was swilling about in my mind and then one day (I think at Warwick University) it all came together and I drew the basic Cynefin shapes of four curved lines with the squiggle at the bottom. In effect I too the planar shape of part two, mixed it up with the various matrix models and created something very different with far more potential. There is one more element needed to complete the picture. By now I was in IBM and various attempts were being made to match what I did with others The problem here is that thought leaders don't really mix well, each have their own ideas and they are reluctant to Rosetta Stone Language accept challenge (this is commentary and confession by the way). In a meeting at the Hawthorn Labs I was introduced to Stephen Haeckel whose Adaptive Enterprise, creating and leading the sense-and respond organizations had created a following within IBM. Now we had an interesting debate, and as I remember it Cynthia's then managers were present. I liked Stephen (and still like although I have not seen him in years) but we had some significant disagreements. Well I did, Stephen could not see why I was drawing a distinction between knowable and unknowable systems. I realise now was a debate that would happen again and again, between a proponent of complexity and someone writing and thinking in the tradition of systems dynamics. For Stephen it was sense-respond with an underlying assumption that it was possible to manage an organisation on that basis. For me it was just a marginal improvement on the process engineering that dominated that period, and it wasn't radical enough.Eventually, frustrated and drew the Cynefin model on the wall and created for the first time the four decision models: Known: Sense-categorise-respond Knowable: Sense-analyise-respond Unknowable, complex: probe-sense-respond Unknowable, chaotic: act-sense-respondMy point was that Rosetta Stone Arabic Stephen's model would only work in the known or the knowable, and he was assuming an analytical and model based approach would allow the sense-respond organisation to be built, it was an engineering approach in contrast with my ecological one. It was an important step, but more was to follow.

This morning he focused his question

As some of you will know there has been controversy in the ActKM list serve Rosetta Stone Store on the subject of surveys. No one has yet attempted any serious defense of questionnaires, although one academic who provided a weak one is now arguing that the debate should cease which I will count as an admission of failure. Graham, while not defending such things directly has been taking me to task for not providing information and arguments that in my view would require me to write a book (which I am doing, all too slowly but not on research methods per se). This morning he focused his question and I provided a more detailed answer (thus denying him the last word at least for the moment) which I share below.You will need one bit of context - I have argued that most surveys are so context free that a random answer is as valid as a considered one. Given that academics need surveys complete to meet nonsensical performance measures I get my children (as an act of charity) to complete them at random, in part fulfillment of the obligations that gain them pocket money.Graham has also created some new HTML which I like, but for which there is no current representation Graham's email follows with my answers belowlt,humourgt, Dave because I haven't said anything for about 13 hours, and I desperately want to have the last say, and you won't or can't name the research methods that reduce bias, I thought I'd make it a bit easier for you and construct a survey. Knowing your dislike for surveys I will understand if you choose to answer randomly or get a family member to Rosetta Stone Language respond. I've catered for this eventuality by providing Question 3. Question 1. From the following list please select the methods, or methods, that reduce cognitive bias. If there is a method that reduces bias that is not listed please include it in your answer. focus groups,content analysis, anthro-simulation environments (Cognitive Edge method), anecdote circles, social network analysis, archetypes-value-themes workshops (Cognitive Edge method), concept mapping, oral history, metaphor simulations (Cognitive Edge method), on-line surveys, structured interviews, model creation by social construction (Cognitive Edge method), Delphi, latent semantic analysis, the future backwards (Cognitive Edge method), randomised control trials, case study.Question 2. Having chosen a method or methods please explain why the method, or methods, reduces bias in all social research circumstances, regardless of the research context or questions? In other words Rosetta Stone Arabic please explain why it is a meta-method that can be universally applied.