Fraser McConnell

🚀Tech 🌏Social Entre. 🌳Sustainability

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

@naval Ravikant - highlight from day 1 of #NewFrontiers 🌏

"You need to be indifferent to the world's problems in order to help solve them - You can't help others while you're drowning"

@EHFNewZealand

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

A massive highlight of 2018 was being selected with the awesome @alexmccallnz as fellows in @EHFNewZealand 🌏

Here's our kōrero at New Frontiers on tech for good @SquawkSquadNZ @ChoiceToPay ✊

https://t.co/ce9HGZ9dGa

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

#NewFrontiers wow🙌

Educating iliterate Indian women to build solar tech for their villages 🌏 @BarefootCollege
Drones for social impact 🚀 @SkyBaseAero
Blockchain for whakapapa ✨ @kayemareedunn
Soil making networks to heal the planet 🌱@makesoil @joshwhiton

@EHFNewZealand

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

Very proud to be part of a team inspiring others inside and out of their mahi 🙏 @SamanthaRyNZ

[Choice @ChoiceToPay]

Take a look at the remarkable Head of Product @SamanthaRyNZ take centre stage at the Wellington Regional Poetry Slam Finals 🙌💯💛

Wow, she blew everyone away. We are blessed with such a talented team of diverse minds ✊🎉

@NLNZ #slampoetry

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to share my story in using tech for good and choosing purpose before profit on the TedX stage 🌏@SquawkSquadNZ @ChoiceToPay

A huge thank you and shout out to the @TEDxAuckland whanau for putting on such a powerful event 🙌

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

Check out some insights into @ChoiceToPay's resilient side after a sit down catch up with the awesome @CreativeHQ ✊🌏💛

[Creative HQ @CreativeHQ]

We chatted to the @ChoiceToPay team to find out how they deal with the challenges of starting a new business and what role #resilience plays in their world. https://t.co/HYsT4fwII2

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

Awesome audience at @TEDxAuckland today 💙🙌

[Shannon Thomas [email protected] @shanthomas]

@FraserHMcC of @SquawkSquadNZ mobilising tamariki to help save NZ endangered birds. Inspiring story of finding your purpose, social enterprise, and using technology for social good. #TEDxAKL

[Ben Paris @NZBatman]

Wow! Getting 40,000 kids signed up for a #conservationweek Education Programme is an amazing start @SquawkSquadNZ @FraserHMcC #ConsComms

[Ben Paris @NZBatman]

Finally @FraserHMcC from @SquawkSquadNZ talking about their mahi using technology to engage people from their own homes with pest control in places like @ArkintheParkNZ @Forest_and_Bird #ConsComms

[Colm Kearney @ColmKear]

#ConservationWeek 2018 is close and @SquawkSquadNZ has 500 FREE #VR google cardboard headsets for the first 500 classrooms signed up to their #digital educational packs. Teachers can sign up here: https://t.co/9y0ptNX5uR cc @FraserHMcC @docgovtnz @alex_smccall

[Colm Kearney @ColmKear]

How might we Champion Young Innovators along the #STEM / #Innovation pathway? Thoughtful+exciting conversations on empowering the next generation of kiwi innovators #FutureOfWork #ChampioningYoungInnovators Drawing credit to the v. talented @FraserHMcC cc @callaghannz @VicCrone

[Choice @ChoiceToPay]

"I would like to see more Choice for everyday New Zealanders" - Hon Minister Faafoi at #ThePoint2018 @KrisinMana @KiwibankNZ @ASBBank @NZFinTech @Payments_NZ

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

Awesome to see NZ #TokenEconomics experts sharing their knowledge 🙌🌎 Congrats @seandotau for releasing NZ's first Blockchain/crypto book 🎉 https://t.co/4aKm8w7NlJ

[Adiraj Gupta @adirajgupta]

Congratulations @seandotau & @thomaspower on the upcoming book! Looking forward to digging into this soon! Sean tells me I'm the first buyer of the book which is pretty exciting :D @CryptoLaunchpad

[NEM New Zealand @NEM__NZ]

.@alex_smccall from @ChoiceToPay spoke at Techweek'18 Waikato IoT Tour and Smart Cities event last week! "I envision New Zealand as a global Incubator for Blockchain for Social Impact". Kia Kaha Alex. #techweek @WaikatoTech @TechweekNZ #Blockchain4good @NEMofficial

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

Are current tech & VC structures broken?💔

The current system incentivises:

Quantity v Quality
Consumption v Creation
Quick exits v Sustainable growth
Shareholder profits v Shared purpose

What would a world look like where the rhs was rewarded instead?🌎❤️

@sexandstartups👌

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

@PeterFD @EtherealSummit @ChoiceToPay @GetWala @omise_go @NZFinTech @LightningLab @CreativeHQ @callaghannz Haha thanks PFD! I have a non-mutual publishing agreement with Twitter for now 🐥

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

A snapshot of @EtherealSummit during our @ChoiceToPay #BlockchainWeekNY trip 🙌🚀

A few highlights being the social impact of @GetWala working to bank unbanked Africans and @omise_go cross border payments 👌

#EtherealNY @NZFinTech @LightningLab @CreativeHQ @callaghannz

[Fraser McConnell @FraserHMcC]

What is the key to shifting from an organisation to an organism?
🏢->🌱

From a mechanism of linear plans to an organic system with a performance compared to that of the human brain?

Does it start with mutual trust? 🤝🤔

[Choice @ChoiceToPay]

A throw back to our #BlockchainWeekNY trip 🌎

Great to catch up with @EHFNewZealand fellow @ahoppin and the team from @CoverUSHealth - giving patients ownership of their healthcare data as well as reducing their healthcare costs❤️

@NewLab @CreativeHQ @NZFinTech

[CreativeMornings/WLG @cm_wlg]

"Everything you do, question it with reason."
Thanks so much for joining us to hear Ossie and Fraser of @ChoiceToPay share their incredible story and inject us all with their passion and commitment to what really matters. 💚✨🌏 #cmcommitment #creativemornings