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• Facebook 101 workshop from Volunteering Canterbury

  Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 in: Training With tags: Training, Community Groups, workshop, technology, Communication
  Learn what, why and how you can get the most of Facebook for your community group. Facebook has many tools to help community groups engage people in different ways and showcase what they’re all about

• Connect, discover or create with a winter course at CWEA

  Posted: Wednesday, July 03, 2019 in: Training With tags: Community development, seminar, arts, Courses, workshop, technology, Sleep, waste
  The Term 3 programme at the Canterbury WEA is out and packed with exciting, affordable courses and events to keep us busy and energized through the winter months

• UC Connect public talk: Never Say Die – Silicon Valley and the pursuit of immortality

  Posted: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: Lectures, technology, economics, aging
  Death is a big business, which is one reason why Silicon Valley billionaires such as Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Sergey Brin hope to disrupt the aging process and unlock the secrets of immortality

• Brilliant new enviro-tech camp initiative for kids

  Posted: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 in: Resources and Information With tags: environmental health, technology, children, young people
  A prominent Kiwi businessman has set up New Zealand’s first ever enviro-tech camp at Raglan - south of Auckland. Vaughan Fergusson is the founder of New Zealand’s high-growth tech success story Vend and founder of OMGTech!

• Airport-style check in reducing wait times and improving the patient experience

  Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: health, services, technology
  Canterbury DHB media release: 22nd May 2019 Patients with an appointment in the new Christchurch Outpatients building are enjoying a new, simpler and faster method to check-in for their clinics

• Christchurch sows eco-friendly solution in electric weed control

  Posted: Wednesday, May 01, 2019 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environment, technology, sustainability
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 30th April 2019 An innovative, spray-free approach to controlling weeds will be trialled in Christchurch with the use of electro-thermal technology

• Maori and Pacific health app being trialled

  Posted: Thursday, April 19, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: maori, pacific, health, technology
  Ol@-Or@ is a healthy lifestyle mobile app and website developed for Māori and Pasifika people. The app is being trialled and could be rolled out nationally next year

• Take a SmartView of Christchurch

  Posted: Thursday, March 01, 2018 in: Resources and Information With tags: Communication, technology
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 28th February 2018 Christchurch is one step closer to its goal of becoming New Zealand’s most connected city. A new Christchurch-specific web app, SmartView Christchurch, is being trialled

• Lessons in back to school safety

  Posted: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: children, safety, transport, technology
  Christchurch City Council Newsline: 23rd January 2018 Parents and children are being urged to take a “devices down, heads up” approach to the journey between school and home

• New health service helps people with osteoarthritis

  Posted: Thursday, July 13, 2017 in: Resources and Information With tags: technology, medical, health
  Arthritis New Zealand media release: 12th July 2017 A new online programme is helping people manage their osteoarthritis and share with others who have the condition

• Council first to launch issue reporting phone app

  Posted: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 in: Resources and Information With tags: services, technology
  Christchurch City Council media release: 8th June 2015 Residents can now report issues such as overflowing rubbish bins and pot holes instantly to Christchurch City Council from their mobile phones

• Department of Conservation launches an app

  Posted: Thursday, May 01, 2014 in: Earthquake With tags: earthquake recovery, environment, environmental health, technology
  The ‘Imagine’ app is an initiative from the Department of Conservation in response to the Christchurch city earthquake rebuild