About Us

Illuminating Industry, Training, Education and Career Pathways into Digital & Creative Tech

Native Tech is based on a successful education model developed in 2014 by the founders of the non-profit Digital Natives Academy, which has extensive experience successfully engaging rangatahi Māori by using an innovative approach which weaves together culture and identity, business and technology, leading to confidence in being able to articulate who they are through a journey into Te Ao Māori while developing skills that will allow them to engage in the future of work.

Native Tech will do this by providing disengaged learners with innovative educators and mentors and state of the art digital and creative tech facilities which offer a mix of accredited and non-accredited courses and key microcredentials.

20 Years of Experience in Industry & Education

2002

Native Tech Founders launched the first ever online portal for Māori focused and indigenous centred news and information, helped launch Google Māori and developed the first ever Māori News app for iOS.

2014

Digital Natives Academy Charitable Trust established in 2014 was the first ever academy to provide free digital & creative tech programmes to tamariki and rangatahi Māori wanting to explore the future of work.

2022

The Native Institute of Digital & Creative Technology (Native Tech) is launched with a focus on providing a foundation programme for rangatahi wanting to become creators, innovators and developers of tech.