{"id":23293,"date":"2020-09-30T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/new-zealand-firms-switch-to-using-nations-indigenous-name-aotearoa"},"modified":"2020-09-30T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T03:50:00","slug":"new-zealand-firms-switch-to-using-nations-maori-name-aotearoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23293","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand firms switch to using nation&#8217;s M\u0101ori name, Aotearoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone and communications agency DDB respond after calls on companies to use the reo term<\/p>\n<p>One of New Zealand\u2019s biggest telecommunications companies has heeded an exhortation to use the country\u2019s original, Indigenous name of Aotearoa, joining others that have pledged to use more reo, the M\u0101ori language, or <em>tikanga<\/em> \u2013 protocols \u2013 in their daily business operations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week Vodafone \u2013 which has about 2,000 New Zealand employees \u2013 confirmed it had changed its banner at the top of users\u2019 phones from \u201cVodafone NZ\u201d to \u201cVF Aotearoa\u201d. The company gave short shrift to those on social media who complained about the change. Rival companies backed the move.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/new-zealand-firms-switch-to-using-nations-indigenous-name-aotearoa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodafone and communications agency DDB respond after calls on companies to use the reo termOne of New Zealand\u2019s biggest telecommunications companies has heeded an exhortation to use the country\u2019s original, Indigenous name of Aotearoa, joining others th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23294,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293\/revisions\/23294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}