The SARS-CoV-2 which is responsible for Covid-19 is a nasty virus. It picks up a small number of reckless people as its favourite carriers and let them spread itself to lots of people in a short time including vulnerable populations like rest home residents. Once spread it is very hard and takes very long time for a patient to recover from it and for a community to eradicate it.
The disease is causing a very big trouble for otherwise prosperous entrepreneurs as they are basically risk-takers and improvisers. Not only the social impact by the disease itself but also the governments’ prevention and control measures against Covid-19 would pose significant restrictions to their business practices which would be productive and innovative in normal circumstances.
Their appetite for risk-taking should be encouraged and rewarded once the full economic recovery comes into our views as the disease is under control. However the economies agreed to their requests too early are seeing failure in containment or in preventing relapsing of the pandemic.
What we can do to reward risk-taking (especially small) business owners right now would be sincerely listening to their concerns and faithfully discuss on possible alternatives for their previous business norms and supports shifting to a new normals based on both warm empathy and hard facts. It is actually a courageous act to speak up as lots of people would like to play save at the moment.
Me pēhea te whakatītina mō ngā waewae kai kapua i ngā tikanga hou
He whakaweriweri te mate korona. Ka kōhiti ia i ngā kotoiti tōtōa mō āna kaitītaritari ki te whakamate i ngā pio tūoi. Ka roa te wā e ora ai te tūroro. Ka roa te wā e haepapa ai te iwi i a ia.
Ka āwangawanga ngā waewae kai kapua i momoho i ā rātou mahi i mua i te mate korona. He nui ngā rāhui. He iti ngā hui. He nui ngā raruraru. He iti ngā hua.
Me wewete petapeta rātou kia tae mai te wā. Engari, kia tūpato kei wawe tātou ki te whara i te mate korona.
Me pēhea te whakatītina mō rātou anāianei? Āta whakarongo mai i rātou.
A call for restructuring is never without upsetting. But this time it is global and ubiquitous with huge impact and disturbance which are unavoidable for virtually everyone on the planet. Suddenly your business, your role and your job without exceptions have been thrown into an existential question, if your business, your role or your job is essential, urgent or necessary.
This is really a tough call. As it has been long since we moved into the economy by majority comprised of tertiary industries, or service industries, most of us even with “decent” jobs would have difficulties in affirming our jobs are actually essential, urgent or necessary without any doubts.
Even for those in primary and secondary sectors things are not so different. Because most of people working in these sectors, too, are engaged in tertiary industry-ish jobs rather than stereotypical ones.
However, even if your business, role or job is not deemed essential, urgent or necessary it does not make it negligible or dispensable at all. That is why governments around the world were swift in putting job protection measures in place. First, your household requires it as the source of livelihood. Also as a human does not live only on bread, a society does not produce only bread.
He āwangawanga te whakahouhou katoa. Inakuanei, ka kōkirikiritia ia tangata, ia tangata e te whakahouhou nui o te ao. Ko tēnei te mahi waiwai, kāore rānei?
Ka mahi tokomaha i ngā mahi ratonga ināianei. He pai tonu aua mahi, engari, ehara he horipū rātou. Ahakoa tonu he ahuhenua, he itiiti ngā tāngata i ngā mahinga horipū.
Heoi anō, mahia te mahi. Kāore te tangata e noho noa ake mō te parāoa. Kāore te porihanga e mahi noa ake mō te parāoa anō.
Covid-19 is indeed a real surprise attack against humanity. Although we cannot tell how it will end up just as yet, it is sure that the world will never be the same as before.
Indeed, it is a fact very hard to swallow regardless the future prospect is bright or bleak. Quite a few people are still in denial. That is the reason why so many unproductive arguments are circulating despite they will not lead us to anywhere.
I suspect that most of them come from those who have forced to abandon their winning games. Covid-19 is a decisive game changer. However, it is not a great leveller as the strong still have better chances over the weak even though they might need write off lots of their vested interests.
Simply, we are seeing a tomorrow which is not a sequel of yesterday. We were about to be fed up with a flood of sequels, weren’t we?
Ko Kāpene Tiapana tā mātou kiripuaki waimarie. Ko te rangatira rangatahi ia i tētahi rōpū o Te Taua Moana o Murakami. Ka mauria te pōtae mārō o te tipa e ia.
The Chinese zodiac goes around the cycle in 12 years. Its first zodiac is the year of the mouse as with this year, 2020. Coincidentally, I participated in an annual photo exhibition every year in the last cycle, from 2008 to 2019. Above is the gallery of my exhibits. They ware not themed with the animal of the corresponding year. Maybe in the next round.
Ka porowhita ngā ara matua Haina i ngā tau e tekau mā rua ai. Ko tēnei tau, 2020, te tuatahi o rātou. Ko te tau o kiore ināianei. I te porowhita tōmua, kua whai wāhi atu ahau ki te whakatauranga whakaahua a ngā hoa ākonga o mua ia tau, ia tau. Ko te kiriata runga ake āku tāpaetanga mō rātou. Kaore āhuatia ngā ara matua Haina e ēnei tāpaetanga, engari, a te porowhita hou, pea?
As our new year’s resolution of 2020, or of this decade, we would like to contribute to the advancement of the whole-human communication with the latest ICT developments.
In Tiapana ICT, we conceive eHealth as “(all) encompassing health” which represents not just electronic devices or any other technologies. It could also be called ecosystem focused/oriented health. It is a holistic approach to health mobilising whatever resources available and relevant with advanced technologies and insights.
Tiapana ICT では eHealth の e を、単なる電子機器やその他のテクノロジーだけでなく、 encompassing「（全て）を包含する、全方位の」医療、健康管理と捉えています。あるいはエコシステム指向の医療、健康管理ということもできます。健康に対して、全体的な観点から取り組み、先進の技術や知見から利用可能で適切な全てのリソースを活用するものです。
E whaiwhakaaro ana mātou ki te “e” o te eHealth, he “encompassing” he manaaki katoa, ehara he hangarau anake.
The design motif of our company logo is “Ama no Iwafune” (Japanese meaning “heavenly rock ship”), the legendary rock-solid vessel which can navigate between heaven and earth.
As our original design, it features the Pleiades as its sail. The stars have a great significance both in New Zealand indigenous Maori culture as “Matariki” and in Japanese traditional culture as “Subaru”.
Ukoh, a Japanese Kiwi tattoo artist living in Auckland, kindly presented us with this design. His works can be seen at his online tattoo gallery. He takes order for picture or design, just e-mail: ukoh.rain@gmail.com.
We are providing information about eHealth, cloud services, virtual reality and seafaring cultures in three languages: English, Japanese and Te Reo Māori.
Nau mai, haere mai ki Tiapana ICT. E kōrero ana mātou i te ī-Hauora me te kapua taupānga me te motuhenga mariko me ngā ahurea moana i ngā reo e toru: te reo Ingarihi me te reo Hapani me te reo Māori.
