Māori and Pacific Peoples Program

DXC is committed to embracing Māori and Pacific culture through business, employment opportunities and community initiatives.

About the program

The Māori and Pacific Peoples Program have the mandate to encourage, promote and support Māori and Pacific culture at DXC. Our vision is to have Māori and Pacific culture embraced as an authentic part of our DXC values and behaviours such as:

Developing a strategy that will help advance the vision and objectives of the Māori and Pacific Peoples Program at DXC
Improving awareness and knowledge of Māori and Pacific culture among DXC staff by investing in resources, training and professional development
Creating and promoting new career opportunities at DXC for Māori and Pacific graduates and experienced professionals
Engaging with Māori and Pacific peoples in the communities we operate in
Evaluating our supply chain and partnerships to identify opportunities to partner with Māori and Pacific businesses
The Māori and Pacific Peoples Program is part of DXC Australia & New Zealand's Social Impact Practice. The 2023 Social Impact Practice report is available here.

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DXC Technology builds on partnership with Christchurch City Council, Tagata Moana Trust and the Fale Youth Trust

DXC Technology builds on partnership with Christchurch City Council, Tagata Moana Trust and the Fale Youth Trust

DXC Technology is the driving force behind Digital Futures. The DXC Digital Futures program donates refurbished laptops and provides digital literacy and enablement to learners in need.

The collaboration with Tagata Moana Trust and the Fale Youth Trust in Christchurch stands as a powerful example of what we can achieve when our community comes together.

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Passing laptops to career pathways students with the Brumbies in Aotearoa

Passing laptops to career pathways students with the Brumbies in Aotearoa

Over the last 12 months, DXC Technology has continued to expand our strategic partnership with the ACT Brumbies, supporting DXC’s Māori and Pacific People’s Program.

ACT Brumbies Head Coach, Stephen Larkham spoke to DXC’s Māori and Pacific Peoples Program students, DXC employees, and partners Rea and Microsoft about how the Brumbies embrace different cultures to build team synergy.

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Shell V-Power Racing Team help accelerate learning in Taupo

Shell V-Power Racing Team help accelerate learning in Taupo

In early 2024, DXC in partnership with the Shell V-Power Racing Team donated laptops to a local high school in Taupō and Rea.Coach. The donated devices, facilitated by DXC’s Digital Futures Program, will assist students with their learning and workforce readiness programs. In addition to receiving the devices, the students learnt about the importance of STEM in high-performance environments during a garage tour with the Shell V-Power Racing team. At DXC Technology, we're proud share the same vision as our partners and customers in helping to make a difference to the communities in which we live and work.

Words from the artist

The created artwork/insignia by artist Lincoln Moa represents the DXC Māori and Pacific Peoples Program. It signifies an opportunity to bring together, and collaborate with, Kaupapa Māori and core Pacific frameworks which are built on mutual trust, respect, reciprocity and whanaungatanga.

DXC’s desire to promote, and provide opportunities for Māori and Pacific peoples will strengthen relationships through collaboration, and integrate values and behaviours for mutual beneficial relationships.

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DXC Technology Collaborates with ACT Brumbies to Donate Laptops and Provide Cross-border Indigenous Support to Rea in New Zealand

DXC Technology is delighted to donate 10 refurbished laptops to Rea, an Aotearoa-based organisation, as part of DXC’s Digital Futures Program.

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DXC Technology builds on partnership with Rea and the Brumbies in New Zealand

DXC Technology builds on partnership with Rea and the Brumbies in New Zealand

DXC Technology has donated a further 10 refurbished laptop and computer devices to Rea Coaching in Wellington, New Zealand as part of its ongoing commitment to the DXC Digital Futures Program and the DXC Māori and Pacific Peoples Program. This takes the total number of devices donated to Rea Coaching and their student learners up to 20, with an additional 20 to be donated over the duration of 2023.

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Themes of our Māori and Pacific Peoples Program

Business partnership (Kotahitanga)

Drive to improve Māori and Pacific businesses in Aotearoa

Education and career pathways (Mātauranga)

Create new education and career opportunities in the technology industry for Māori and Pacific people

DXC culture within Aotearoa (Whanaungatanga)

Aspire to be an employer of choice for Māori and Pacific peoples and foster cultural awareness within DXC

Community engagement (Kaitiakitanga)

Strive in our key commitment to engage with Māori and Pacific communities to promote understanding and fairness

Impact

Career opportunities

Creating new education pathways for the Māori and Pacific community into jobs

Cultural inclusion

Commitment to ensure DXC employees are trained through cultural awareness training

Community commitment

Increasing number and spend of Māori and Pacific business in the community by strengthening our existing partnerships and building new ones

Kerry Kingi

Transitioning from the electronic security industry to IT was a bold and exciting leap. My journey began as a fire technician, progressed to maintenance manager at a hospital, and later as an electronic security technician. Driven by my desire to grow, I earned my electrical license and pursued an IT Diploma in Software Engineering to enhance my technical skills. Through the Rea program, I gained real-world IT experience, including insights into the software development lifecycle. I’m deeply grateful to Rea, the DXC Māori Pacific Peoples Program, and DXC for offering me a cadetship, which opened the door to my IT career.

Now at DXC Technology, I’m committed to growing as a developer and contributing to meaningful projects. With constant learning and upskilling, I’m inspired by the DXC Māori Pacific Peoples Program’s efforts to bring equity to Aotearoa’s IT industry. DXC’s work is empowering Māori and Pacific talent, and I’m proud to be part of this transformative movement. Mauri Ora!

Brody Sowry

As a child, I was always fascinated by technology and dreamed of working in the IT industry, believing it was something I could excel at while helping others. However, after leaving high school, I had to enter full-time work to support my whānau. My first job was cleaning floors, and over time, I worked my way up to better positions. Despite my progress, I always aspired for more. That’s when a friend introduced me to the Rea program, and I signed up immediately. The program equipped me with the skills needed to transition into IT while allowing me to continue working full-time and support my family.

Thanks to Rea, I secured my current role at DXC Technology as a tester, where I feel fulfilled and make a difference daily. I am incredibly grateful to the Rea program, the DXC Māori Pacific Peoples Program, and DXC for giving me the opportunity to join as a cadet and eventually progress into a full-time role. Every day, I learn something new and enjoy the work I do. I am proud to be part of an initiative that promotes equity in the IT industry by empowering Māori and Pacific talent in Aotearoa, and I look forward to seeing its continued growth and impact.

Our program partners

TupuToa

TupuToa seeks to ensure corporate Aotearoa is representative of our country, by developing and empowering our people and building the cultural capability of our partners.

TupuToa was borne from the need to see increased Māori and Pacific representation in leadership positions in the corporate sector. Māori and Pacific peoples make up a quarter of our population and yet are largely invisible in corporate New Zealand. This is more pronounced in corporate leadership and in the IT Sector.

The DXC partnership with TupuToa will provide internship and graduate opportunities for Māori and Pacific university students to join DXC.

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Rea

In partnership with Rea, Microsoft and some of our DXC corporate and government agencies, DXC is working to address the under representation of Māori and Pacific peoples in the technology sector, where only 7% of the workforce is from Māori and Pacific peoples communities.

Rea provides DXC and our customers with a cohort of cadets who would like a career in the IT Sector and provide comprehensive life skills and training to set them up for success. Microsoft provide training and upskilling in their Business Applications, before DXC assigns the cadets to in-flight projects with mentors over a 12-week period. The cohort are paid during this cadetship while they train and gain experience. At the conclusion of the cadetship, DXC or our customers offer full time employment to these new technology professionals.

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