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Indigenous Drive Behind New Partnership In Media Industry
Tuesday, 12 March 2024, 3:27 pm | Kiwa
Announced today at RES 2024, the largest economic summit in Indian Country, a new indigenous partnership in the media industry. Grey Willow Music and Production Studios has been appointed to represent VoiceQ localisation software in growing its presence ... More >>
Pilbara languages on a path to digitisation
Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 9:51 am | Kiwa
Indigenous languages of Western Australia are on the path to digitisation with the help of an Australian Government Commonwealth Grant. More >>
Fresh look at first school in Bay of Islands
Thursday, 22 August 2019, 8:10 am | Kiwa
Two new learning resources aimed at raising a wider appreciation and deeper understanding of te reo Māori and our local history were launched this week at the University of Auckland’s Epsom Campus. More >>
2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
Tuesday, 29 January 2019, 9:31 am | Kiwa
New Zealand tech innovator Kiwa Digital welcomed the official launch of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages in Paris today (Monday, 28 January 2019 - 3:00pm ) More >>
NZ First’s Police Flying Squad Tried Before & Was A Disaster
Thursday, 14 September 2017, 8:35 am | Kiwa
“NZ First’s proposal for a Police flying squad has been tried before, and it was a disaster”, says Kim Workman, Adjunct Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, Victoria University More >>
Learning Reo is Cool
Tuesday, 13 June 2017, 10:09 am | Kiwa
New digital resources launched today enlist tamariki in the challenge of making te Reo Māori relevant and accessible. More >>
Youth-Driven Health Campaign Reaches Out to Samoan Community
Thursday, 1 June 2017, 3:25 pm | Kiwa
A vibrant youth-driven campaign to raise awareness of rheumatic fever has now been brought to life for Samoan communities, with the launch of the beat.fever app in Samoan. More >>
Cultural Intelligence Takes Centre Stage
Thursday, 16 June 2016, 5:29 pm | Kiwa
Cultural intelligence took centre stage at yesterday’s Kea Inspire event in Auckland, when the ability to work effectively in culturally diverse situations was described as “key to New Zealand’s future prosperity” More >>
KIWA Publishes Classic Sesame Street Stories in Korean
Tuesday, 22 December 2015, 4:33 pm | Kiwa
KIWA, a world leading production house for experiential digital books, is delivering Sesame Street stories to mobile devices in multiple languages in an international publishing and licensing agreement with Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational ... More >>
Digital Storytelling for Entrepreneurs
Saturday, 18 April 2015, 10:00 am | Kiwa
Māori Development Minister Hon Te Ururoa Flavell helped celebrate the achievements of five Māori entrepreneurs in Manukau yesterday who are about to hone their digital marketing skills. More >>
KIWA Publishes Popular Cartoon Stories in China Auckland
Thursday, 9 April 2015, 1:14 pm | Kiwa
8 April 2015 Kiwa Digital Ltd (KIWA), a world leading production house for experiential digital books based in New Zealand, is to deliver interactive cartoon stories to mobile devices in China. In a breakthrough international publishing and licensing ... More >>
Dragon Island children’s story gets interactive on iPad
Wednesday, 17 December 2014, 3:57 pm | Kiwa
Dragon Island, the new children’s book from internationally acclaimed author Martin Baynton, is now available as an interactive story exclusively on iPad. More >>
KIWA Awarded for Innovation in Media, Music & Entertainment
Friday, 17 October 2014, 5:06 pm | Kiwa
Auckland, 17 October2014 – KIWA®, a world leading production house for experiential digital books, has won the Innovation in Media, Music & Entertainment category at the 2014 New Zealand Innovation Awards. More >>
Hairy Maclary brought to life with sign language
Wednesday, 14 May 2014, 1:24 pm | Kiwa
The much-loved children’s book, Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy, was brought to life for Kiwi kids through sign language today. The book is part of a series of experiential digital books created by Kiwa Digital for New Zealand’s hearing impaired ... More >>
High Tech Company Wins Top Award in the Middle East
Friday, 7 March 2014, 11:21 am | Kiwa
New Zealand digital education company, Kiwa Digital, has been recognised for its innovative use of technology at the huge Gulf Educational Supplier & Solutions (GESS) Exhibition in Dubai. More >>
High Tech Company Wins Top Award in the Middle East
Thursday, 6 March 2014, 5:12 pm | Kiwa
New Zealand digital education company, Kiwa Digital, has been recognised for its innovative use of technology at the huge Gulf Educational Supplier & Solutions (GESS) Exhibition in Dubai. More >>
Oxford University Press & Kiwa Media to create literacy aid
Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 11:34 am | Kiwa
Learning to read and spell has just become easier through the “Oxford Literacy” digital reading programme. Children now have the opportunity to learn to read and spell using an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch following a partnership between Oxford ... More >>
Kiwa Media attracts New Zealand Chinese investment
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 9:44 am | Kiwa
Auckland digital book producer Kiwa Media has completed a Series A fund raising after attracting interest from New Zealand Chinese investors. More >>
NZ company launches Chinese language eBook
Friday, 16 July 2010, 3:14 pm | Kiwa
Kiwa International is launching the first simplified and traditional Chinese eBooks in its collection of children’s books at the Hong Kong Book Fair on July 21. More >>
Kiwi iPad app wins UK tick
Thursday, 27 May 2010, 3:48 pm | Kiwa
A New Zealand book, turned into an interactive digital application by Auckland company Kiwa Media, has been named by The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom this week as one of the four “most exciting apps available” for the new Apple iPad. More >>