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The other pandemic — how can Aotearoa protect itself against misinformation?

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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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December 14

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. 

 

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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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Te Ora Hou Wellington East Bridging the Digital Divide

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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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A traversal view of the .nz space: content and technology

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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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A new toolkit for digital inclusion initiatives

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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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A traversal view of the .nz space: activity and popularity

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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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Accessibility of the top 1,000 NZ home pages

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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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SeniorNet — SeniorHangouts and evaluation

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September 28

SeniorNet — SeniorHangouts and evaluation

The lockdowns of 2020 highlighted the importance of using technology to address issues of social isolation and to enable key functions such as contact tracing, banking, education and health management. It threw up some new challenges for SeniorNet.

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A traversal view of the .nz space: security

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September 20

A traversal view of the .nz space: security

At InternetNZ, we are passionate about the .nz domains, and we are always looking for new things to learn about it. In this series of blog posts, we’d like to show the difference between namespaces under .nz.

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