Education Scholarship Recipients

The year beginning July 1 2020 bought with it new challenges for the Information and Knowledge Department. The Research Library in Ngāti Awa Research and Archives had been experiencing increasing numbers of visitors both from inside and outside our rohe before the first lockdown. With the lockdown and subsequent COVID-19 restrictions, numbers did drop but a continuous flow of curious uri and students kept our Research Library warm and full of life, and communication and assistance also continued through email and phone calls via our Research Facilitator.

The online catalogue continues to go from strength to strength, with user hits since its inception in December 2019 topping 1.4 million. Our WAI46 Raupatu documents continue to be a great source of information for catalogue users and demonstrates the quality of research that was conducted for our WAI46 claim.

1 . 4 MILLON HITS 1.4m N G ĀTI AWA STAFF 100%

PAG E VIEW PER MONTH 35,700

Ngāti Awa Research And Archives STATS

• 100% Ngāti Awa Staff

• 1 White Island Tours guide retrained and given a permanent position

Ngāti Awa Research and Archives Online Catalogue

• 1.4 million anonymous user hits in the online catalogue • 117 registered users • Page view per month average of 35,700

Take a look at our catalogue at https://Ngātiawa-Iwi.recollect.co.nz/

Ngāti Awa Research and Archives and Whakapapa Committe: Adrian Jaram, Sharon Tutua, Pouroto Ngaropo Digitization became a key focus for NARA during the 2020-21 period. This focus was driven Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa legal matters such as MACA, Creswell and WAI cases, and NARA assisted with by searching for and providing information from various sources in the Archive, this drive fed the need for information to be available instantaneously when required by our legal teams and staff. A Digitization Administrator position was created and then filled on a part time basis by one our Rangatahi who had previously been a White Island Tours guide. This retraining has been taken up with great enthusiasm and we are very happy to have Malia Godsmark on our team.

Cyber security has been at the forefront of our work for since the first lockdown. With the rise in hacking worldwide, the Ngāti Awa Group faced its own challenges and implemented solutions that would then become part of our everyday operational activity. The IT team was permanently expanded and is now a team of two. In line with our commitment to having the right people in place and building capability inside our Iwi, our new IT staff member had previously completed small IT projects with us but joined us in a more permanent capacity in August 2020. Ngaire is in her last year studying IT and has proven herself to be an asset to IT. With this extra support it has allowed IT to better service delivery across the board and has led to the deployment of device management, company wide intranet, increased zoom facilities and various other productivity increasing solutions.

CO M PUTERS 58 SOF T WARE APPLICATIONS 16

IT STATS

• 100% Ngāti Awa Staff

• 1 Education Grant applicant mentored and given a permanent position • 4 office sites under IT administration (WIT, TMT, Louvain, NA Farm)

• 58 computers • 2 Servers • 3 Websites

• 16 external software applications supported