TAURANGA TECH

The Tauranga Tech website was started in January 2014 by Ben Rickard, following the inaugural meeting of the Welcome Bay Business Network at the Welcome Bay Community Centre. At that meeting there was a discussion and recognition of the growing number of technology-based businesses setting up shop or moving here. Indeed, in 2013 Tauranga was named by Google as the regional winner and one of New Zealand’s top five “eTowns”. The awards were created to celebrate the towns and cities making... the best use of the web to connect with customers and grow. At the Business Network meeting they talked about how to encourage more such businesses to move here, and how to support their homegrown ones to continue to be successful. I realised one of the things that must be central to this is to have an internet presence and a vehicle by which to communicate and promote the sector here, and boom, taurangatech.co.nz was born!More