By the time Smy left, the students had already started selling a book on Maori life that they created called H – Harataunga. “We’re turning upside down this idea of the million-dollar, one-person business,” says Smy, 51, who spoke with me during his residence. “What we want to have is the million-dollar, community business. With his contact's help, Smy got tribal approval to run an “ecommerce awareness and training program,” in the elementary school. It will now be up to members of the community to decide what to do with the knowledge he shared.

Source: Forbes December 31, 2018 20:03 UTC