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Insights and Updates from the Digital Equity Movement in Aotearoa
Thoughts from the TUANZ Tech Users Summit 2026
Digital inclusion for young people in New Zealand hasn’t moved much since 2018, and AI is making it harder to trust what’s online. Reflections on the Connected Rangatahi research from Te Rourou One Foundation, data costs, truthiness, and a mall that switches off its charging ports.
Are we replacing open access with an AI-gated internet?
There is a quiet, tectonic shift happening in how we move through the internet, and it isn’t coming from Big Tech product updates, it’s coming from government policy
Redefining Digital Inclusion for the AI Economy
As AI rapidly reshapes global economies, workplaces, and public services, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in what "inclusion" actually means. The question is shifting from access to agency: Who has the capability, capital, and power to make technology work for them, and who is simply subject to its decisions?
The government marked its own homework on grocery labels.
The Product Labelling Regulatory Review is out, and Cabinet's already picked which digital labelling changes to make. Regulations Minister David Seymour is calling it equity. Here's what "equity" is really doing here.
Broadband in plain language
If you've ever looked at an internet provider's website and wondered what any of it means, this is for you. First, what broadband is and the different ways it gets to your home. Then plans, what the numbers mean and how to pay for only what you'll actually use.
Dr Pushpa Wood on the hidden cost of going cashless
The communities least likely to be online are often the same ones watching their last bank branch close. Dr Pushpa Wood ONZM on cash access, digital exclusion and who bears the cost of going digital.
Digitising government: terms and conditions apply
We reached out to ministers, shared our research and asked a few hard questions. This is what we found and why DECA will be in the room tomorrow when the government talks about its digital future.
Building an Accessible Digital Future: Insights from the Government Digital Accessibility Forum
It’s about meeting people where they are, not expecting them to adapt to whatever platform is easiest for us to deliver.