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>> Last month saw another milestone for Te Reo Maori and the Internet, with the worldwide launch of Google Maori. The familiar "I'm feeling lucky" button under the search box now translates to "Taku Waimarie Hoki!" and that's just the start. The project saw the translation of most of the Google interface including messages, menus, buttons, and advanced search fields. Experts say nearly half of the world’s 6,500 languages will face extinction by the turn of the century. The Internet offers languages a public voice and Google Maori is a modest and positive response to the loss of languages and the potentially huge intellectual loss to humanity. Project team members Potaua (Ngati Pikiao, Tuhoe, Niue, Te Whanau a Apanui, Ngati Kahungunu) and Nikolasa Biasiny-Tule (Puerto Rican, Dutch) say it was no easy task to translate over 8,500 words. A team of volunteers worked for 16 months. With the help of Te Taura Whiri i Te Reo Maori - the Maori Language Commission - and Te Wananga o Aotearoa, Google Maori was launched during Te Wiki o te Reo Maori in July 2008. Maori Language Commission chief executive Huhana Rokx says the initiative is terrific news. "Anything that extends our reo into new dimensions is progress and keeping up with technology is excellent for the development of our reo." Some of the translators are also responsible for the Microsoft Office 2003 and Windows XP Maori Language Interface Packs, and are now working on Windows 2007 and Vista. This results in a high level of consistency and uniformity across software tools and platforms. Like the Google Maori team, the Tangata Whenua, Community & Voluntary Sector Research Centre hopes to support the development of Te Reo through its Maori Metadata project. It wants to ramp up the "light" Maori metadata already included in the architecture of The Clearing House. It will enable researchers who write in Te Reo Rangatira to appropriately catalogue their resources, and visitors looking for material will have enhanced searching capability. Read our JUNE NEWSLETTER for more information. To view your Google in Maori, go to GOOGLE.CO.NZ and click the text Google.co.nz offered in: Māori just below the keyword search box. |
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We count what our visitors download in
THE CLEARING HOUSE and the top
downloads make up our People's Choice Top 10. This month's People's Choice is
HOW DO NEW ZEALANDERS GIVE?
by Nick Jones and James King for the Office for the Community
Voluntary Sector. It highlights who gives time and money to
different parts of the community and voluntary sector, and draws on market
research data from the Panorama Survey by Nielsen Media Research. Check our HOMEPAGE to see the other nine resources that made the People's Choice Top 10 this month. |
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>> A US project recruiting 1,000 nonprofit agencies to serve as "listening posts" gives insight into how we might achieve similar results. Johns Hopkins University’s Civil Society Director Lester Salamon was in the country last month to lead the Taking the Pulse working seminar in Wellington and to present the LISTENING POST PROJECT. The project is an ambitious multi-year effort to determine how US nonprofit organisations respond to crucial challenges relating to pressures and changes. By surveying and disseminating the findings quickly to nonprofit managers, policymakers and researchers, the project spurs a more informed dialogue. It encourages greater experimentation among nonprofit practitioners that may result in more effective public policy. Tangata Whenua, Community and Voluntary Sector Research Centre Governance member Garth Nowland-Foreman says “The Listening Post is one useful approach that we can learn from but we also have to make sure we take the pulse of our sector in our way.” Research Centre Co-chair Pat Hanley also presented, reminding participants of the Sector Confidence Surveys previously undertaken by ANGOA (Association of Non-Governmental Organisations of Aotearoa). The seminar, hosted by the Research Centre, was an opportunity to discuss the development of the ongoing nationwide survey tool for Aotearoa that aims to understand how it might document the Prospects, Understandings And Lessons From The Sector’s Experience – the PULSE. Local community representatives brainstormed about how best to take the Pulse of the Sector in New Zealand - Te Kokoritanga o te Ha.
Read more on the Clearing House: The Research Centre thanks JR McKenzie Trust for its generous support. |
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>> New Zealand’s nonprofit workforce (we include volunteers) is one of the biggest in the world - weighing in at 25 percent bigger than Australia and 70 percent bigger than the average of 42 countries. Yet a recent study also finds that New Zealand's nonprofit income falls below average and revenue from the government is substantially less than that from the most generous countries. Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Ruth Dyson and Committee for the Study of the New Zealand Non-Profit Sector Chair Garth Nowland-Foreman were at the Beehive on 12 August to release two notable reports that they say are crucial for the Sector. “The reports should once and for all mark the end of the nonprofit sector being overlooked and undervalued in this country,” says Nowland-Foreman. The History of the Non-Profit Sector in New Zealand, and The New Zealand Non-Profit Sector in Comparative Perspective “show that our sector makes a significant economic contribution and is proportionately one of the biggest in the world,” says Nowland-Foreman. New Zealand's nonprofit workforce is almost as big as this country's manufacturing industry. Read both reports on The Clearing House:
Earlier reports which are a part of the same project are also on The Clearing House: |
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The City of Auckland Cadet Unit is a voluntary youth training organisation. It helps cadets develop a positive outlook, maturity, self-confidence, team and leadership skills. More >> |
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Census data helps to reopen the Tokoroa Cinema |
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The Statistics New Zealand website can be a complicated place to visit. The Clearing House newsletter, in partnership with Statistics New Zealand, is helping community organisation’s understand ways in which data can be used by publishing articles like the one below. >> The entertainment choices for residents of the South Waikato district town of Tokoroa reduced significantly when the town’s unprofitable cinema complex closed.Tokoroa is a rural town of mainly Māori and Pacific residents, most of whom work in forestry and farming. With their widespread population, rural communities such as Tokoroa need facilities that draw people together and provide for their recreation needs. Following the closure of the cinema, the South Waikato District Council was approached to buy and reopen the complex to provide a safe entertainment venue for the district’s young people. Before agreeing to buy the cinema, the council consulted with the community to ensure that it supported the project. The council also used census information on population and age to show that the district had sufficient numbers of young people to benefit from reopening the cinema. With community and council support, and backed by sound statistics, the Tokoroa Cinema 3 complex reopened on 23 September 2005, at first for a five-week youth holiday programme. The cinema is now open permanently. SNZ provide the Table builder tool - a way to create customised reports that show the data the way you want to see it. You can also download the data for your reports or research. LEARN HOW TO BUILD TABLES on the SNZ website. Statistics New Zealand Information Centre: Free Information Service during business hours for direction or pointers on the Table Builder and more. Phone 0508 525 525 toll free or email info@stats.govt.nz |
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>> Don't know or forgot your password? Don't worry. Just click "forgot password" at the top of the HOMEPAGE and type in the same email address that this newsletter was sent to. |
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| Job advertisement (closes Friday 10 October) | |||
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We require a Development Manager The Tangata Whenua, Community & Voluntary Sector Research Centre provides research resources to support people and organisations in the community sector, and to contribute to the strengthening of the Sector through enhancing our collective knowledge base. The Research Centre wishes to appoint a Development Manager part time (20 hours per week) for an initial period of six months to implement the Governance Group’s strategic vision. The Development Manager will need to:
Further information about the Research
Centre can be found
HERE For a full job description and further
information please contact either of the Co-Chairs before
closing date Friday 10 October 2008: |
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Maori Writers National Hui Book launch celebration: Nga Tama Toa: Conference: Innov'08 - Weaving innovation into health The Australia New Zealand Third Sector Research Conference |
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