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 2021 Social Impact Practice report is available here.

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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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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

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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