I would like to start this week by acknowledging the country I am posting from Wangal Lands of the Eora Nation.

I am really excited and nervous sitting in the hosting chair hoping I can bring some interesting content for discussion this week. So on the menu this week is technology, innovation and how this is in our DNA.

Before we dive to deep a brief rundown about me. I am a father to two young kids, a husband and will be celebrating my 10yr anniversary this weekend. I grew up in and around Sydney my mum run a pub which I grew up on top of with my brother sisters & Nan.

my early adult years was a professional cyclist and triathlete, I gained so many experiences racing around the world but not that many trophies.

In my last years of racing I completed an education degree and spent time around mentoring and education. I was on the NSW innerwest AECG for many years.

I went to work @theNCIE in the healthy lifestyle team tackling tobacco control, healthy eating and exercise. This was where @SeanAppoo and I started working together

As part of a team that over the course of about 4yrs built a number of health Apps, health programs, a tobacco documentary to name a few.

One project we built was the IndigenousMTBProject as exercise is something, I still love though now days I swim bike and run more for an outlet and my mental health than any other competitive ambitions. That’s when I keep the rubber side down of course.

It was the work in health that Sean and I really began to understand the power of ‘up streaming’ interventions and this was the seed that ultimately came to be Shared Path Corporation

the work at @sharedpath is around building business opportunities for mob on country as we saw that many challenges shared a common thread back to ‘security and opportunity’

Ive heard many people speak about so called disadvantage issues describing the water that many of us find ourselves in but not many take the time 2 understand, ask the right questions & listen, to find out how people got out of there depth, y some r struggling against the current

So how does business support mob from getting stuck in the ‘current’ through uptake of opportunities that allow mob to design, create and own the how, why and what of work.

Creating business that support community through distribution of wealth, building of social capital the generation of income off labour we all do anyway to care for mob and country

Long story short we use business and technology to support mob upskill and create opportunities and ultimately self-determination.

So in 2018 SharedPath in partnership launched a heavily invested program in the technology upskilling sphere for mob especially around design due to no Indigenous mob in the space ‘nothing about us without us’

that brings us to @BlakTekProject a culmination of years of work, concepts design and sleepless nights. squarely focused on upskilling, enabling mob to tackle opportunities using technology to support our individual and collective lives weather in health, culture, lore/law, land

right now i have 1 kid in bed and 1 running around I am going to get him off and then I will be back online

Key ideas I thought we all could talk about this week are business development, digital literacy and capacity augmentation, Indigenous knowledge and technology, technology and infrastructure, AI, IOT, future skills and mob applications