Aotearoa’s future must embrace a digital, green economy
Ōtaki - The future of New Zealand’s digital economy should, first and foremost, be a green economy.
Climate change has become a huge roadblock for social development but there are exciting sustainable solutions. New Zealand needs to move faster towards low-carbon lifestyle and green growth models.
Kiwis need to protect the environment and promote green economic recovery.
They are everyone’s goals now, shared globally. Technology can help. Digital and intelligent technologies are playing an increasingly important role in this process.
Green and sustainable development has become a top priority in world economies.
Carbon neutrality has become a globally recognised goal, kicking off a green industrial revolution across the globe.
There is a drive to embrace renewable energy and reduce carbon emissions, as part of everyone’s efforts to address climate change.
Digital technologies such as 5G, cloud and AI are pushing the digital economy into a new phase. We believe that a digital economy should, first and foremost, be a green economy.
In essence, the digital industry has been working to using less energy to transmit, process and store more information.
Take 5G. Its energy consumption per bit is only one-tenth of 4G’s, but it can provide 30 times the capacity.
Digital technology can help generate more electricity from renewable sources and optimise energy supply and demand models.
This can help speed up New Zealand’s transition to green energy sources, benefitting the entire energy sector and the world as a whole.
Technology can do more than just drive economic growth. Tech advances can help the world better understand and protect nature, mitigate the impact of human activity on the planet, and help make the world a better place.
The digital economy has become the new engine of economic growth around the world.
Lisa was born in Auckland at the start of the 1970s, living in a small campsite community on the North Shore called Browns Bay. She spent a significant part of her life with her grandparents, often hanging out at the beaches. Lisa has many happy memories from those days at Browns Bay beach, where fish were plentiful on the point and the ocean was rich in seaweed. She played in the water for hours, going home totally “sun-kissed.” “An adorable time to grow up,” Lisa tells me.
Lisa enjoyed many sports; she was a keen tennis player and netballer, playing in the top teams for her age right up until the family moved to Wellington. Lisa was fifteen years old, which unfortunately marked the end of her sporting career. Local teams were well established in Wellington, and her attention was drawn elsewhere.