Abstract
This is the community building story of our ongoing work bringing together a linear data and digital project with Te Ao Māori (the Māori world view), people, whānau and community aspirations and easing burden for an overburdened workforce. Creating connections, dimensions and turning bits and bytes into navigating human complexity. Amplifying community resilience.
Cocreating a connected care software platform that spans Secondary, Primary, Community, NGO, cross (government) agencies, kaupapa Māori, non regulated workforce and informal support networks (including unpaid friends and family) that prioritise self-determined choice, consent and safety for a person and their whānau (family).
Setting the kaupapa (mission) and recognising the acute needs of the present, whilst aiming for the evolving realisation of what's possible and managing the expectations of a diverse set of partners. All while building and maintaining trusted relationships across networks.
MyWai is the result of years worth of trust building and co-creation between the Northland Community of New Zealand and a project to integrate teams and allow the people themselves to be owners of their own wellness journey. It has attempted to bridge the gap between traditional community health services (read Hospital and Health services outward) and the bottom-up community organisations and initiatives that support their people.
Along the journey, this has traversed the rapids of information governance, trust, measurement, multi-disciplinary and inter-agency teams and, most importantly, people’s self determination of their health journey.
This presentation will describe how the project has had to traverse from the perspective of data and digital to the human dimension – and learning a way through engagement that puts the community at the forefront of its design to support their people.
How do we create an environment in the digital world that allows the various waters (in their various states) to express their natural form and, at the same time, safely support a lifelong journey for people and whanau through hau ora (self determination)?