A nation of makers #5

Posted by Clare Curran on September 25th, 2011

Every country worth its salt should have some kind of solid manufacturing base. It should also have an economic development policy that decides which industries to invest in for its future.

NZ could be a nation of makers. Our economic future could be geared towards using the digital environment as the platform to grow a new generation of innovators, who use their skills inside New Zealand to build a strong and ground-breaking industry that provides skilled jobs and technological advances.

Imagine what that could mean if we seriously meant it. Here’s what we need to be doing more of. Because look what can happen.

Read the rest of this post here:

http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2011/09/25/a-nation-of-makers-5/comment-page-1/#comment-202904

Plus this one
http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2011/09/24/a-nation-of-makers-3/

and this one
http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2011/09/24/a-nation-of-makers-4/

ENDS