Tina Blumenthal would like members to fill in a questionnaire. It’s quite long but fairly straightforward for anyone interested.

Apiculture Data Survey

My name is Tina Blumenthal, and I’m a Senior IT Lecturer at Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) in Tairāwhiti. My area of specialty is data, data analytics and database management systems and I’ve recently become a hobbyist beekeeper.

I am undertaking a Masters in IT with a focus on data management in the Apiculture sector. My research has shown this is a fragmented industry, with gaps in how is data is recorded, stored, shared and used, that might otherwise benefit beekeepers.

The aim of my thesis is to identify opportunities that we as a sector can explore to increase the productivity of our beekeeping operations through improved data management practices.

As a starting point, it is important to survey everyone and capture as many opinions as possible. As such, I have developed an Apiculture Data Survey that will allow us to collect good base information from which we can gain insights about what is important to each of us, as beekeepers.

I would be very pleased if you could take 15 minutes to complete this survey. Some early results will be made available to the whole sector through Apiculture NZ.

Here is the link to the Survey: https://forms.gle/WNmrEgAGRfUhND6X8

Sincerely,

Tina Blumenthal