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What Is The Role Of Technology In Youth Wellbeing?

By Gina Rembe | July 20, 2015

 

In the early days of Lifehack, we were often asked how many mobile apps we’d built. Apps that would ‘solve’ youth mental health issues… pieces of technology that would improve the wellbeing of all young people in this country …

MVP Design Ebook

Designing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

By Gina Rembe | May 26, 2015

Designing Technology products and services has come on leaps and bounds in the last 10 years.

Minimum Viable Products (MVP) were popularised by Lean Startup and other technology entrepreneurs, as a way to design and build products which weren’t a …

The Lifehack & YOMO Design Sprint

By Gina Rembe | May 20, 2015

How might we highlight high impact areas of exploration for Mindfulness Technology?

 

The work of social innovation and entrepreneurship isn’t often glamorous. It’s often a long period of fuzziness, confusion and hard work, followed by a breakthrough moment, followed …

Developing Social Technologies – Two Pioneering Reports

By Gina Rembe | March 23, 2015

How do technologies which improve lives get developed?

We’ve been asking ourselves this question at Lifehack for 18 months now, and feel like we’re beginning to find some of our own answers. Not only are we seeing the development of …

50+ Free & Cheap Internet Tools for Designers, Social Entrepreneurs, Innovators & Startups

By Gina Rembe | December 5, 2014

A list of services to help you be awesome.

Check out this list of online resources which can give you jumpstarts and shortcuts to gain quick momentum for your project or social venture.

Simple Website Tools:

WordPress – highly customisable…

Week 2 at #Lifehack Labs: The Feedback Loop between Technology and Culture

By Gina Rembe | September 4, 2014

Weeks out from #Lifehack Labs, I pondered over the type of content that I wanted participants to be clued up on. Given our remit, it was clear that technology had to be part of that learning journey. Trying to cover …

Lifehack Labs - The Team

#LifehackLabs Participants’ Perspective: Week 1

By Gina Rembe | August 28, 2014

Every week, we will bring a little of the Lifehack Labs experience to the outside world from the view of the participants.

This week, Ruth, Katie and Gemma catch you up on what happened in a (very long) first week. …

Why LIFEHACK focuses on ‘Improving Youth Wellbeing through Technology’

By Gina Rembe | June 9, 2014

Recently we launched LIFEHACK Labs – Aotearoa New Zealand’s first social innovation lab. It’s focus through the 5 week experience is to kickstart impact projects to improve youth wellbeing through technology.

Why Youth Wellbeing?

As many of you will know, …

Weekly Roundup – 23 April – Social Innovation, Wellbeing Research, Techspiration & Startup News

By Gina Rembe | April 23, 2014

Welcome to our latest LIFEHACK Hump Day Roundup, where we bring you some quick links and inspiration from around the web focused on Social Innovation, Wellbeing Research, Techspiration & Startup News. You can contribute by getting in touch with LIFEHACK …

Hump Day Roundup – 16 April

By Gina Rembe | April 16, 2014

Welcome to our latest LIFEHACK Hump Day Roundup, where we bring you some quick links and inspiration from around the web which we’ve been reading each week. You can contribute by getting in touch with LIFEHACK if there’s something you …

Christchurch gets Lifehacked!

By Gina Rembe | April 3, 2014

48 HOURS OF CREATIVITY ROCKS CHRISTCHURCH

The LIFEHACK Weekends of 2014 took flight at the beginning of March with the aim of supporting local innovators and wellbeing causes by putting the call out to dreamers, doers and thinkers to unleash …

Please Be Kind To Yourself & Other People

By Gina Rembe | February 22, 2014

The team at LIFEHACK was sad to hear that Charlotte Dawson was found dead today after a battle with depression, partly this seems to have been caused by recent online bullying.

The story of Charlotte Dawson typifies the incredibly sad …