Digital Skills in the Age of AI
New Zealand’s digital skills challenge has entered a new phase. What was once described as a ‘leaky pipeline’ is now better understood as a structural national challenge with weak foundations, fragmented pathways and insufficient coordination between education, industry and government. This matters because advanced digital skills are now essential to New Zealand’s productivity, export growth, cyber resilience, AI capability and long-term economic growth. In the age of AI, every sector needs people who can build, secure, govern and improve complex digital systems. The message from this report is clear: AI does not reduce the need for advanced digital skills, it increases it.
RESILIENCE & TECHNOSTRESS Video
As more of daily life moves through a digital front door, banking, health, government, older people face real barriers, and a crisis sharpens them. This kōrero looks at what the evidence shows about those barriers, who does the work of keeping people connected, and what it would take to design services that include older people rather than leave them to cope. Facilitated by Bronwyn Scott, joined by Dianne Wepa and Melanie Stowell.
From silence to signal: Nigerian women building digital pathways to justice
From silence to connectivity: Nigerian women building digital pathways to justice
The World Internet Project in New Zealand (AUT)
This report presents the findings of the ninth iteration of the World Internet Project – New Zealand (WIP-NZ 2025), a nationally representative study that explores the evolving role of the internet and digital technologies in the lives of New Zealanders. The survey was conducted between March and May 2025 and collected responses from over 2,000 internet users. The report examines internet accessibility, artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, attitudes towards digital technologies, and awareness of their broader societal and environmental implications.
The missing link: Reclaiming connectivity through human rights
Despite decades of global efforts to bridge the digital divide, 32% of the world’s population remains offline, with the most marginalised communities disproportionately affected. While multilateral organisations and governments recognise internet connectivity as fundamental to human rights – particularly freedom of expression and access to information – their solutions persistently fail to match the scale and urgency of the challenge.
The Future is Here: Medical graduates need to be ready for digital health.
Digital technology has long been an important part of effective health-care delivery, evolving steadily to support clinical practice. In recent years, digital health has become central to improving efficiency, quality, safety, and accuracy across clinical processes. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), combined with other digital technologies are creating both new opportunities and challenges that medical graduates must be prepared for.
AI literacy for librarians in low-resource, multicultural communities
Emerging AI tools have seen use in recent years as a way to shortcut learning, potentially enabling students and teachers to customise lessons and overcome socio-economic and language barriers by providing on-demand access. Kara Kennedy offers a vision of what AI literacy looks like for librarians and their colleagues working in a low-resource educational environment servicing a high number of low-socioeconomic, multicultural customers.
Offline and Overlooked: Digital exclusion and its impact on older people.
In the digital age, everything from accessing services and shopping, to socialising and entertainment is taking place on the internet. So, what happens if you’re not online? You get overlooked and left behind.
Challenging the Myth of the Digital Native: A Narrative Review
Nurses are increasingly engaging with digital technologies to enhance safe, evidence-based patient care. Digital literacy is now considered a foundational skill and an integral requirement for lifelong learning, and includes the ability to search efficiently, critique information and recognise the inherent risk of bias in information sources. However, at many universities, digital literacy is assumed.
