From Data to Dignity 2026: Health and wellbeing indicators for New Zealanders with intellectual disability
The authors are also thankful for the valuable input of Shara Turner, Tania Thomas, David Corner and others from IHC New Zealand, as well as the thoughtful reviews from Dr Nic McKenzie and Anita Nicholls, committee members of the Aotearoa-New Zealand division of the Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability (ASID) and Craig Wright, Data Scientist at the Social Investment Agency and author of the 2011 Ministry of Health report for Health Indicators for New Zealanders with Intellectual Disability.
Driving Sustainable Growth: Opportunities for New Zealand’s Economy
The report, Driving Sustainable Growth: Opportunities for New Zealand’s Economy, commissioned by the Sustainable Business Council (SBC) and Climate Leaders Coalition (CLC) finds that a focused shift toward an innovation-driven, productivity-led economy, underpinned by affordable and plentiful renewable energy and stable policy settings, could deliver an estimated $22 billion increase in GDP per year by 2035, rising to more than $33 billion per year by 2050, compared to an economy that only relies on the current carbon price path.
Understanding the gap: a balanced multi-perspective approach to defining essential digital health competencies for medical graduates
Rapid technological advancements have left medical graduates potentially underprepared for the digital healthcare environment. Despite the importance of digital health education, consensus on essential primary medical degree content is lacking. Focusing on core competence domains can address critical skills while minimising additions to an already demanding curriculum. This study identifies the minimum essential digital health competency domains from the perspectives of learners, teachers, and content experts aiming to provide a framework for integrating digital health education into medical curricula.
Addressing the Digital Divide in Health Education: A Systematic Review
The disparity in access to essential healthcare resources and services is exacerbated by the digital divide, which presents a significant obstacle to health education. Effective tactics to advance digital equity and provide equitable access to resources for telehealth and digital health are needed to close this gap. Digital databases such as PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar were used to conduct a systematic review. Keywords and Boolean operators including "digital divide," "health education," "digital equity," "telehealth," "digital health literacy," and "strategies" were used in the literature search process. Only peer-reviewed English-language papers that addressed methods for bridging the digital divide in health education were accepted after being screened in accordance with the preset inclusion and exclusion criteria.
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.
He Ara Kaunuku: a Pathway Towards Digital Excellence in Aotearoa
This report, authored by Elle Archer and funded by the Department of Internal Affairs, provides the academic backbone for He Ara Kaunuku: A Pathway Towards Digital Excellence in Aotearoa. DECA is proud to be the home of the Kaunuku framework, and we thank Elle for gifting this taonga to our collective mahi. We are actively developing a delivery methodology that will sit alongside a national digital inclusion index, helping communities, councils, iwi, and partners turn equity goals into practical action. Our focus is to uphold the kaupapa of Kaunuku while supporting consistent, community-led assessment and long-term digital equity planning across Aotearoa.
Inquiry into Triple Zero Service Outages
ACCAN recently submitted to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee’s Inquiry into Triple Zero service outages. Australians believe that access to mobile telecommunications is critical for participation in daily life.
Fantastic Futures 2024 - Day 2 - Session 18
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.
Unleashing fibre: The future of digital fibre infrastructure in New Zealand
New Zealand’s digital fibre infrastructure is a success story worth celebrating, but the best is yet to come. Unleashing the power of our digital fibre infrastructure is critical to a brighter future – one that could be worth $163 billion over the next 10 years.
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.