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Young people in New Zealand will soon have a new place to hone their IT skills and job prospects. Microsoft New Zealand Managing Director, Paul Muckleston, announced that as part of Microsoft’s global YouthSpark program the company is donating NZ$1M in cash, software and services investment...

There are nearly 3.5 billion people speaking more than 2000 languages in Asia Pacific. Can you imagine if there was a common language that could unite this diverse region and open doors to opportunities? Through our YouthSpark programme, Microsoft is challenging youth across Asia Pacific to do...

We Speak Code. Do you? As part of Microsoft's global YouthSpark Initiative, and with celebrities around Asia showing their support for more young people to learn to code in school, we are proud to present a Week of Code to encourage everyone to try their first Hour of Code at code.org . It's...

This post is part of a series spotlighting Asia Pacific nonprofit organisations that have incorporated a thorough understanding of technology and education into their learning programmes for youth. These organisations attended Microsoft ’s Tech4Good Summit (12-13 February 2014) in Singapore. In...

By Denise Fuentes, Principal Engagement Manager, Microsoft Services New Zealand Kaibosh is a Wellington-based non-profit that acts as a link between the food industry and charities that support people in need. Since 2008, Kaibosh has been redistributing discarded food—from restaurants, bakeries...

At the Microsoft Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals 2012 , held in Sydney in July, Team Mobile Eye of New Zealand presented an application that helps people who are visually impaired become more familiar with their surroundings. The prototype Mobile Eye app —which uses both artificial intelligence (AI...

Innovative educators and education leaders from 19 countries attended the 8 th Microsoft Partners in Learning (Asia and Pacific) Forum, from 20 to 22 March. Held in Auckland, New Zealand, they were given the opportunity to learn, share and connect with their fellow peers from around the region. Paul...

The Ministry of Social Development (MSD) and Microsoft New Zealand today announced a joint project in Christchurch to strengthen the technology capability of 50 not-for-profit organisations – some badly affected by the Canterbury earthquakes. MSD and Microsoft are co-funding the initiative,...

The day to day operations of NGOs can be challenging, especially when disasters strike. To help NGOs improve operations, Microsoft hosted a series of workshops under the Connecting Communities forum aimed at building their Information Technology (IT) capabilities. The most recent forum took place in...

Microsoft hosted three of New Zealand’s leading nonprofit organisations at its second annual Asia Pacific Tech4Good Summit, held on 22-23 May in Bintan, Indonesia. The aim of the Summit is to harness the power of technology to support nonprofit groups to achieve transformational change both within...