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Govt must be wary of increasing digital divide with 5G deployment - Chorus

The company has responded to a request from MBIE for feedback on the challenges and opportunities of a 5G rollout.

Govt announces first eight members of digital divide taskforce

The Digital Economy and Digital Inclusion Advisory Group will advise the Govt on how it can build the digital economy and reduce digital divides.

Exclusive interview: Polycom on bridging the digital divide & workplaces of the future

"I’ve worked on how we can remove the stereotype of how an engineer is a guy, and make it about the role itself."

NZTech responds to digital divide report: "The government is right to raise this concern"

"Left unaddressed this digital divide will exacerbate the social divide."

Government report shines light on NZ's digital divide

Curran says the previous government didn’t make the report public until after the election as it exposed the digital divide in New Zealand.

Govt. to appoint chief technology officer to close digital divide

“This Government intends to progress its goals to close the digital divide by 2020."

Bridging the rural-urban divide with technology, collaboration and bold ideas

What needs to be brought into focus now is that issues of inequality and lack of access are not limited to emerging or developing economies.

New tech maps NZ's digital & socioeconomic divides

The Digital Divide map is an interactive tool which shows the different digital divides New Zealanders and their communities are facing.

Digital inclusion efforts to continue after funding pulled

The Computers in Homes programme will no longer be funded by the government. 20/20 Trust will continue to try & help bridge the digital divide in NZ.

Colwill School jumps towards digital equality in Massey

"We’re excited to see Spark Jump turn more homes in Massey into digital learning environments & enable more students to thrive in the digital world."

Could New Zealand be lagging behind in Digital Inclusion?

“As more and more services go online there’s an assumption that we can all get onto our devices and complete these activities.”

Icelandic language at risk due to voice command tech

Fewer than 400,000 people speak Icelandic, and linguists are hypothesising that this is how the language dies.

Kiwis love the internet but there's work to be done on our digital divide, says InternetNZ

"We are still concerned about the digital divides relating to household income, location and ethnicity groups."

Digital divide and climate change: Huawei outlines their commitments

“Our stakeholders are placing increasingly high requirements on us, and we are striving to turn these challenges into competitive advantage.”

Threat or opportunity? Digital disruption divides SME sector

The split between those who see it as a threat compared to an opportunity points to a lack of understanding.

The huge digital divide: 68% of Asia-Pacific residents still not connected to net

The huge extent of the global digital divide has been uncovered, showing that 57% of the world's urban population are unconnected to the internet.

UN Report: Technology can be a hindrance on right to education

United Nations Special Rapporteur warns that digital technology in education can be dangerous and widen inequality gaps, furthering digital divide.

Green Party calls on Government to close digital divide

“Kids who don’t have internet access are hugely disadvantaged compared to their classmates. The National Library’s topic support service is being cut in favour of ‘curated online resources’.

Whitepaper: How to explain why IT security needs more budget

Do you want to convince your higher-ups that IT and security need more budget?

A step-by-step guide to starting the security discussion with your executives

Your organisation has “jewels” in your servers and critical endpoints: Data.

Infographic: Why an outdated unified comms solution hurts your business

Seventy-one percent of IT professionals say their organisations use multiple communication or collaboration solutions unnecessarily.

The features that should be front and centre when evaluating SIEMs

According to Frost & Sullivan, SIEM can either be an enabler or a retardant and there's a thin line between the two - here's the key attributes.

Review: Cut through the noise with AI-driven threat analytics

SANS has provided an independent review of a new AI analytics solution designed to rescue businesses 'drowning in data' from SIEM platforms.