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February 09
World Internet Project New Zealand
The World Internet Project is a longitudinal survey that looks into usage and attitudes towards the Internet.
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December 21
Looking back at community funding
Since 2019 the majority of our grant funding has been aligned with our digital inclusion goals. We have put over $1.4 million towards a variety of initiatives that seek to bridge the digital divide.
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December 20
The other pandemic — how can Aotearoa protect itself against misinformation?
While Aotearoa and the world continue to battle COVID-19, there is another pandemic that has spread globally and has now taken root in New Zealand. It's called the ‘infodemic.’
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Research on UAV-aided Wireless Mesh Networking for Remote NZ Communities complete
In 2019, we funded research being completed by Dr Wanqing Tu. The research has been published through the 2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference.
December 10
International human rights day - all human, all equal
So what's happening in the digital space that advances human rights and addresses inequalities?
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November 24
Te Ora Hou Wellington East Bridging the Digital Divide
As we all know, the time between early 2020 and now has thrown up plenty of challenges. Running a skills programme with adults and local youth was no easy feat, but Te Ora Hou saw the value in persisting.
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November 19
A traversal view of the .nz space: content and technology
In this blog, we are looking at content, languages and content management systems used on .nz sites.
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November 09
A new toolkit for digital inclusion initiatives
We are excited to launch our evaluation toolkit for digital inclusion initiatives across Aotearoa. It will support community groups as they learn how to evaluate their work as they strive for digital equity.
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October 13
A traversal view of the .nz space: activity and popularity
Our systems handle over 60 billion DNS queries per month for .nz domains. That’s a lot of data. So how many .nz domains are active and which ones are the most popular?
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October 12
Accessibility of the top 1,000 NZ home pages
In 2020, Access Advisors set out to audit the top 1,000 websites in Aotearoa for interface accessibility. The results provide an important call to action for anyone with a website to improve and a baseline to gauge improvements in web accessibility over time.
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