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Joseph Cederwall
Freelance Writer
Joseph is Co-editor of Scoop and Editor of The Dig. Joseph is an editor, writer, and social entrepreneur with an interest in open and participatory media and business models. In 2019, Joseph founded The Dig. Joseph has qualifications in law and anthropology and previously practiced as a lawyer in the Immigration and Human Rights field. He is now applying this background to the practice of ‘reverse anthropology' using a framing of indigenous worldviews to deconstruct the dominant worldviews and cultural myths of Western society. Joseph has a longstanding interest in the commons, participatory democracy, social justice, and human rights. He was a co-founder, and founding Director of ActionStation Aotearoa - now NZ's largest online movement-building organisation. Joseph is also a Director of Freerange Publishing Cooperative, and a long-time contributor to Enspiral - a non-hierarchical collective of freelancers and ventures dedicated to collaborative business practice and purpose-driven enterprise. He lives in beautiful Taranaki and enjoys watersports, permaculture, tai chi, music, and being in nature.
Joseph Cederwall - Latest News [Page 3]
Forging New Frontiers in Impact-focused Business
Friday, 13 April 2018, 12:26 pm | Joseph Cederwall
The New Frontiers Festival hosted by the Hillary Institute this week in Upper Hutt gave me real hope that New Zealand can achieve the much-needed and complex transition to a new type of economy. The timing of the festival was impeccable as this week ... More >>
PM's Press Conference 9/4/18: By-election and Budget
Monday, 9 April 2018, 6:11 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appeared at today's Post-Cabinet press Conference with Finance Minister Grant Robertson to announce the date of the upcoming Northcote By-election and to discuss pr around the upcoming budget. More >>
Preview: Your Heart Looks Like a Vagina by Dominic Hoey
Friday, 6 April 2018, 4:48 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Watch: Video on the making of Your Heart Looks Like a Vagina from the Loading Docs programme. More >>
PM's Post-Cabinet Press Conference 26/3/18: Land Transport
Tuesday, 3 April 2018, 6:02 pm | Joseph Cederwall
The Prime Minister appeared at today's Post-Cabinet press Conference to discuss the Draft Government Policy Statement (GPS) 2018 on land transport. More >>
Open Government Mid-term Report – Still Room For Improvement
Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 1:13 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Yesterday, the Open Government Partnership released a Mid-term Progress Report on New Zealand's Open Government Efforts . More >>
PM's Post-Cabinet Press Conference 26/3/18: Nurses Pay
Monday, 26 March 2018, 6:14 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern opened her press conference with a summary of her plans for the week ahead including the launch of a Topp Twinns monument at the National Library, attending the reopening of Trades Hall in Wellingtin after earthquake strengthening, ... More >>
WOMAD - A Harmony Of Difference Part 2
Friday, 23 March 2018, 2:06 pm | Joseph Cederwall
See Part 1 for Reviews and videos on Kamasi Washington, Tinariwen, Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band, Aldous Harding, Chico Trujillo, Nano Stern, Jojo Abot and The Thievery Corporation . More >>
WOMAD 2018 - A Harmony Of Difference
Wednesday, 21 March 2018, 12:13 pm | Joseph Cederwall
A friend described WOMAD as his “favourite white middle class celebration of diversity.” There is certainly an echo of truth to this as the crowd is still largely white and middle class, but this WOMAD for me represented that a better world is possible when ... More >>
Cory Doctorow talks machine learning and big data in NZ
Wednesday, 14 March 2018, 11:00 am | Joseph Cederwall
International internet and digital technology commentator Cory Doctorow talked about machine learning and big data at the Privacy Commissioner’s PrivacyLive event on 13 March 2018 in Wellington. More >>
Interview: Dominic Hoey on hip-hop, poetry, gentrification and dealing with chronic illness
Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 4:55 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Dominic Hoey is a poet, author, musician, actor and chronic illness sufferer. He has previously performed under the stage name Tourettes as a hip-hop artist releasing a number of acclaimed solo works. After a sold out debut season in 2017, Dominic ... More >>
Review: The Sun Also Rises - Passion and Tension in Europe
Friday, 2 March 2018, 5:05 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Aficion is Spanish for passion - and it was passion that carried Elevator Repair Service’s verbatim theatrical staging of Hemmingway’s classic novel in “The Select (The Sun Also Rises)” in the New Zealand Festival. More >>
Cumbia – Ageless Queen of Latin Music
Tuesday, 27 February 2018, 4:54 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Chico Trujillo - a Chilean big-band with almost two decades experience perform at WOMAD in March. The musical core of the project is the highly popular pan-Latin American genre of ‘cumbia’ - a 19th century Afro-Colombian music style combining West ... More >>
Report on government applications of blockchain technology
Thursday, 15 February 2018, 4:09 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Report on government and democracy applications of the blockchain A new report has highlighted the increasingly realistic possibility applications value of the ‘blockchain’, to transform government. More >>
Hope for a 'Life Economy' - an interview with John Perkins
Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 12:25 pm | Joseph Cederwall
John Perkins is the author of The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2016), the New York Times bestsellers Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004), The Secret History of the American Empire (2007), and many other books on transformation. More >>
Post-Cabinet Press Conference: Child Poverty Legislation
Tuesday, 30 January 2018, 6:06 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern held her first post-cabinet press conference for the 2018 year this afternoon, following the meeting of cabinet. Ardern announced the details of the Government's new legislation aimed at setting accountable and ... More >>
Progress on open government finally
Wednesday, 24 January 2018, 11:26 am | Joseph Cederwall
Last year I wrote about the great potential of Open Government here , and about the last Government’s performance on the OGP to date here . These provide background on why Open Government is important and how New Zealand has been doing so far. More >>
Auckland Transport ridesharing app trial a positive step
Thursday, 11 January 2018, 2:55 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Auckland Transport is seeking proposals for a ride-sharing system to help address Auckland's transport woes. The public transport agency is scoping a trial platform to support an on-demand ride-sharing service, including apps for both the driver ... More >>
Catalan pro-independence parties win narrow majority
Friday, 22 December 2017, 10:37 am | Joseph Cederwall
With over 90 pct of Catalan vote counted, pro-independence parties appear to have a narrow majority. The unionist ‘Citizens’ party are marginally ahead in vote share and could finish as the largest party, however, the three pro-independence ... More >>
Malian ‘Desert Blues’ revolutionaries to storm WOMAD
Tuesday, 19 December 2017, 5:02 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Malian band Tinariwen (playing WOMAD NZ in March 2018) are a true musical revolutionaries in every sense. Active since 1982, these nomadic Tuareg or ‘Kel Tamashek’ (speakers of Tamashek) electric guitar legends revolutionised a traditional style to give birth ... More >>
People’s Report on Public Broadcasting and Media Presented
Tuesday, 12 December 2017, 3:50 pm | Joseph Cederwall
Today at Parliament, a crowdfunded report on public interest media, along with an open letter in support of the recommendations it contains were presented to Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran. More >>
