Supreme Local Government Award for Kawe Kōrero
Katahi anō ka whakaihuwaka te taupānga o Kawe Kōrero i ngā tohu SOLGM.
Waikato Regional Council’s cultural intelligence app Kawe Kōrero has taken out the Supreme Award at the annual New Zealand SOLGM Local Government Excellence Awards.
At last night’s ceremony in Auckland the app won the Capability Group Award for Innovation in Council – Community Relations. It then went on to win the overall 2018 McGredy Winder SOLGM Local Government Excellence Awards® Supreme Award.
“Judges described Kawe Kōrero, meaning to ‘spread the word’, as fundamental to local government and recognised its innovation in information sharing and easy to use features.”
Council chief executive Vaughan Payne said: “This is well deserved recognition of our Kawe Kōrero team who put a lot of effort into ensuring the app was innovative, informative and easy to use.”
Kawe Kōrero is an initiative resulting from the council’s Māori partnership approach, which has a key focus of growing the council’s capability and confidence to effectively partner with iwi Māori.
Council chair, Alan Livingston, agreed. “It can be daunting to attend a pōwhiri or step on to a marae if you don’t know the customs or protocols,” he said.
“Having been in this situation myself over years of public service, I am extremely proud our organisation has led the way and in doing so displayed dedication and professionalism in this space of promoting Māori language and protocols.”
“Waikato Regional Council contracted the expert digital skills of Kiwa Digital, to attain the desired level of interactive content full of visual and audio examples. Parts of the app can also be personalised, such as writing a self-populating pepeha (what you might say when you are introducing yourself to a group of people).”
Check out the promotional video at this link: https://youtu.be/mqPXmUewlpo
Katahi anō ka whakaihuwaka te taupānga o Kawe Kōrero i ngā tohu SOLGM
Katahi anō ka whakawhiwhia ki te Kaunihera ā Rohe o Waikato te taonga tiketike i te pō tuku taonga o SOLGM mō te taupānga whakaako reo, whakamārama tikanga, a Kawe Kōrero.
I whakarewaina te taupānga e kōrerotia nei i te marama o Mahuru i te tau kua hori, hei rauemi hāpai i ngā kaimahi me ngā kaikaunihera kia pai tā rātau mahi ngātahi me ngā iwi puta noa. Ka hāngai te aro o ngā kōrero ki te whakatakoto o te reo, te whakahua tika i ngā kupu, me te whakamārama i ngā tikanga Māori. Ko ētahi o ngā tino o te taupānga nei ko ngā waiata, ngā mihimihi me ngā kiriata.
Ka whakanuia te taupānga ki te tohu Capability Group Award for Innovation in Council – Community Relations i te pō tuku tohu ki Tāmaki Makaurau ināpō. Kātahi ka hua mai ko ia hei toa whānui, ka tohua ki te tohu 2018 McGredy Winder SOLGM Local Government Excellence Awards® Supreme Award.
He rauemi tūāpapa a Kawe Kōrero mā ngā kaunihera katoa o te motu te kī a te tira whakawā, ā, he rauemi e kuhu ana ki te ao hāngarau hou, he mea tuku mātauranga, he mea māmā rawa ki te raweke hoki.
E ai ki te toihau o te kaunihera a Vaughan Payne: “E tika ana kia whiwhi te rōpū i hanga i a Kawe Kōrero tēnei honore nui, nā rātou te mahi nui kia kounga tēnei taupānga”.
He kaupapa tēnei i hua mai i tētahi rautaki a te kaunihera nei e aro ana ki ta mātou tūhono ki ngā iwi Māori, ā, ko tāna e whai nei kia whakapakari ake i tā te kaunihera ahei ki te mahi ngātahi me ngā iwi.
I roto i ngā marama e ono he 50,000 neke atu ngā mātaitanga i te kiriata whakatairanga, he 700 ōna tuaritanga. I tikiake te taupānga e 4100 neke atu, ko ētahi o taua hunga rā kei Ahitareiria, kei Ūropi (4 ōrau tikiake)
“He hua tēnei o te motuhaketanga me te hiahia o tēnei taupānga”, te kī a Vaughan Payne.
E whakaae ana te heamana o te kaunihera, a Alan Livingston. “It can be daunting to attend a pōwhiri or step on to a marae if you don’t know the customs or protocols.
“Having been in this situation myself over years of public service, I am extremely proud our organisation has led the way and in doing so displayed dedication and professionalism in this space of promoting Māori language and protocols.”
I mahi tahi Te Kaunihera ā Rohe ō Waikato ki a Kiwa Digital, kia eke te kounga o te taha hāngarau o te taupānga nei ki tērā i manakotia. He wāhanga hoki e motuhake ai tō te tangata waihanga i āna kōrero, pēnei i tō pepeha ake.
He mea taunaki te taupānga nei i te tokomaha, kia pai ai tana ako ahakoa te wāhi, te wā rānei. Haere an ate wā, ka āta whanaketia hoki te taupānga nei.
