Pat MacFie | Wānanga NFT

Nau mai hoki mai anō e te whānau! After having a ‘rona enforced “rest” and moving house I’m finally back on my feet and excited to invite you all to our next Blockchain Navigators Wānanga with Pat MacFie! “Don’t sleep e te whānau!” Pat is a jedi innovator who lives with an Ao Māori world view. With a deep sense of purpose, he is kaupapa driven and is a man of many talents who wears many hats that include leading the Manaaki.io team as well as a bunch of other awesome kaupapa including: *MacFie Foundation - supporting people to study in tertiary, *Digital Doers Academy - supporting people to upskill and become digital and social media advisors, *You Do You - Youth enterprise kaupapa *Manaaki U - supporting small businesses to reach their goals. When I invited Pat to be part of our wānanga he spoke about community empowerment through decentralisation as the core of what he is about. We often hear about the decentralised nature of Web 3 / Blockchain but not many of us can really describe what that means and how it may look or how we can engage with it. This is something that Pat is amazing at and we will no doubt learn heaps from this deep dive into this decentralised world. I’m especially excited because like me, he’s determined to not only help us as indigeneous peoples adopt Web3 trends, but help us become the early adopters and lead the wave. The bro has also been really vocal to make sure we “don’t sleep” and are aware of the many influences and traps that are present in the Blockchain and NFT space, during our wānanga we’ll also have a look at these and how we can keep ourselves and our whānau safe and thriving!