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.
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.
Cognitive influences in second-hand markets: from perception to purchase in rural smartphone consumption
This study aims to examine how rural consumers make second-hand purchase decisions beyond economic necessity. Using schema theory, we explore how perceived price fairness, product features, product quality and sustainable community influence drive purchase intentions in the rural second-hand smartphone market.
Policy, Practice, and Futures A report on the priorities arising from the second Digital Childhoods Summit
This report synthesises discussions from the Digital Childhoods Summit, held in Canberra on 11-12 June. Both the Summit and this report are initiatives of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child (Digital Child), aimed at producing agreed priorities and actions for supporting children in the digital world.
Understanding the gap: a balanced multi-perspective approach to defining essential digital health competencies for medical graduates
Understanding the gap: a balanced multi-perspective approach to defining essential digital health competencies for medical graduates.
Youth Digital Wellbeing - Research Report 2024
As students become increasingly active online, it is essential to help them navigate both the benefits and challenges of digital technology. According to the New Zealand Teens’ Digital Profile: A Factsheet (2018), nearly one-third of teens spend four or more hours online daily, while 38% report two to four hours. Although this data is six years old, feedback from New Zealand primary and intermediate students during discussions with the report's authors suggests that online engagement has likely risen significantly since then.