Supporting our general programmes (including FLINT)

Chorus is New Zealand’s premier open-access internet infrastructure company, responsible for maintaining and constructing both fibre and copper telephone and internet networks that serve as the backbone of the nation’s connectivity. Serving over 90 competing phone and broadband retailers through wholesale telecommunications services, Chorus is instrumental in providing homes, communities, and businesses across Aotearoa New Zealand with high-speed, reliable, and world-class broadband. This extensive network empowers New Zealanders to connect not just with each other, but also opens up a world of ever-expanding opportunities on a global scale.

Google is committed to helping every Kiwi succeed in the digital future. For over 18 years, we’ve been on the ground in New Zealand, growing to a team of over 85 across Auckland and Wellington. We’re equipping Kiwis with essential digital skills and supporting education, creativity and culture across the country. We empower Kiwi businesses with products like Google Ads and Google Business Profile to connect with customers online. Google Workspace offers essential tools for small business growth, while Google Cloud provides enterprises with easy-to-use cloud solutions for secure data storage and enhanced productivity.

For over 17 years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. It now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, and security. Millions of customers around the world, including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. Today, AWS employs more than 150 employees in New Zealand and has been operating in Aotearoa for ten years. We’re supporting the nation’s digital transformation by investing in an AWS Region and helping Kiwi businesses harness the benefits of cloud technology so they can innovate quickly and take their ideas to the world.

InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa operates the .nz domain space. We ensure all domain names ending with .nz are available for people and businesses in Aotearoa to function and thrive online. We’re not government funded — we’re a not-for-profit organisation. The money we receive from .nz domain names goes back into the community. We provide grants, help to fund other organisations, and advocate for an accessible and safe Internet that benefits everyone in Aotearoa. We are a member organisation too. You can join us as a member to be in the know, have a say in our direction, stand for Council, vote in elections, or simply because you believe in our cause.
Supporting our FLINT and NEXT GEN programmes

Skills Group is an international team of experts in learning & development, workplace wellbeing and education consulting. Based in New Zealand and working with clients around the world, we live and breathe workplace capability. Working closely with industry, we help organisations upskill their workforce and ensure their business is equipped for the future of work. And right at the core of everything we do is People. It’s our goal to grow people well.

As the kaitiaki of Ōtautahi Christchurch’s essential connectivity infrastructure, Enable is committed to ensuring that our community enjoys maximum value from their world-class fibre broadband services. Enable delivers fibre broadband to more than 150,000 customers across greater Christchurch and connects Christchurch to a digital world.