Closing the gaps around IT Compliance, sustainability and First Nation futures.

Founded in Canberra in 2018, Co-Founders Kurt Gruber and Jamie Miller set out to directly address the nation’s National Agreement to Close the Gap.

Their approach centred on power sharing through a leadership team of both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal heritage, creating employment opportunities for Aboriginal young people, and leading the charge towards a more sustainable, circular economy.

And so, the Worldview Group, an Indigenous-owned social enterprise headquartered in Canberra, was born.

It started with a simple idea: that secure IT asset disposal could also be a job creation engine for Indigenous Australians overcoming disadvantage.

Today that idea connects three entities in a self-sustaining circular model — where every device decommissioned funds training, employment, and community impact:

Worldview Foundation combines non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal leadership to create training, mentoring, and cultural connection for Aboriginal young people to empower them for future employment opportunities.

WV Technologies is the Indigenous social enterprise arm of Worldview, providing highly secure, industry-leading IT lifecycle services nationally. Graduates from our Worldview Foundation programs go on to find employment at WV Tech.

Community Laptops supports the Circular Economy by providing refurbished technology and keeping it out of landfill.

Indigenous empowerment and social impact sit at the heart of all three of our entities and we’ve brought our unique model to our partners, bringing them hard numbers in ESG and RAP reporting, industry leading IT asset disposals, and a fleshed out lifecycle for a retired device – one that includes more than just tossing it into landfill.

WV Technologies and Community Laptops work together to provide funding and employment opportunities for Worldview Foundation graduates, and to share the amazing story of what Worldview Foundation is doing.

A big part of the mission from Worldview Foundation is empowering Indigenous young people through employment, training, mentoring, and cultural connection, with the ultimate goal being that participants from the programs go on to find employment outside of the Foundation and continue on a path of success in their lives.

Teaching these young people how to care for themselves – cooking, filling out paperwork, resilience in the face of adversity, cultural appreciation, and leadership – is key to setting them up for success outside of Worldview Foundation and our social enterprises, WV Technologies and Community Laptops. But after they graduate the program, we don’t just expect them to go out and work – instead, graduates from Worldview Foundation programs are offered a position with WV Tech and Community Laptops. This gives them the opportunity to try employment while still maintaining a strong support network with after-program support from Worldview Foundation, and strong Indigenous leaders within WV Tech and Community Laptops.

And after this, many of our graduates go on to find meaningful work outside WV Tech and Community Laptops, leading successful lives as leaders in their communities, building their careers, and starting families of their own.

All this, just to say, the relationship we have with Worldview Foundation is not just a monetary one, but one that thinks about the journey of Worldview Foundation graduates from start to finish. By creating work for these graduates in the form of resource recovery, recycling, refurbishment, IT asset sanitisation and more, we’re helping them build critical and valuable skills for their future – skills that allow them to move into other industries like construction, banking, IT, sales, and so much more.

When our partners work with us, they know they’re getting a forward thinking social enterprise that connects the dots around IT asset disposal, sustainability, and Indigenous employment.