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Into Year Two: Reflection and the Road Ahead for Digital Inclusion Whanganui

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Over the past year, Digital Inclusion Whanganui has quietly moved from idea to action. What began as a concern about digital exclusion in our community has gradually taken shape as a locally grounded initiative focused on improving digital access, confidence, safety, and capability across the district. During this first phase we have concentrated on three […]

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Why Digital Inclusion and Equity Struggles for Attention — Even When It Changes Everything

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On the surface, digital inclusion and equity should be uncontroversial.Who could argue against helping people connect, build skills, stay safe online, and participate fully in modern life? And yet — it rarely becomes a priority. Not because it doesn’t matter.But because it sits everywhere and nowhere at once. The Paradox of Ubiquity Digital capability is

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Learning at the Right Pace, for the World We’re In

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“Reading Wired Wisdom over summer — a book that helped articulate what we’re already practising.” Over summer, while many of us were trying to slow down, I spent time reading Wired Wisdom: How to Age Better Online by Eszter Hargittai and John Palfrey (University of Chicago Press). Further reading – click here : Wired Wisdom

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Beyond the Boundary Line: Why Sport Needs a New Cognitive–Physical Frontier

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Every few generations, sport reaches a moment where it must reinvent itself. Not because athletes have changed, but because the world around the athletes has changed so radically that the old boundaries no longer make sense. We are standing in one of those moments now. For most of human history, sport has been our proving

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Digital Inclusion Whanganui — Our Journey This Year

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End-of-year reflections, 2025 As the year turns and Whanganui settles into the long light of summer, it feels like the right moment to pause, breathe, and look back on how far this kaupapa has travelled. Digital inclusion work rarely arrives in grand announcements or dramatic breakthroughs. It grows through small, steady acts of service —

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Softening the Ground: A Kinder Way Into AI

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Over the past few months, I’ve been thinking a lot about the way many New Zealanders view the digital world. We’ve entered a period where mistrust has become almost instinctive. Whether it’s social media, online harm, misinformation, or the rise of artificial intelligence, the first response for many people is simply to recoil. And after

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Filling in the Blanks – Learning from the Past, Building Fairly for the Future

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There are moments, usually quiet ones, when a year folds back on itself and you suddenly see the path you’ve taken. This has been one of those moments for me. It’s now over a year since I stepped away from national digital inclusion work. Not dramatically — simply recognising that my energy, my instinct and

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The Thinking Gymnasium

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How an early-morning rugby dilemma became a workout in everyday critical thinking Last night, while planning my weekend, I faced a very ordinary problem: how to watch an early-morning Test match live on Sky. The game kicks off at 4 a.m. — about as early as I ever get up. That’s the point where the

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AI is as good—or as bad—as we let it

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    From fear to self-regulation: habits that make AI safer and more useful.   Alignment: This post and Digital Inclusion Whanganui’s AI First Principles align with the OECD AI Principles, UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI (2021), NIST AI RMF 1.0 (2023), ISO/IEC 42001, and New Zealand’s Algorithm Charter.   Lately I’ve met more

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Whanganui, Leadership, and the Fibre Future

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Over the weekend I received a reminder email from the Whanganui Tech Network. It was about tomorrow night’s meet-up — the usual mix of conversations, updates, and encouragement that keeps our small but lively tech community ticking along. Buried in that reminder was a detail that stopped me in my tracks: Mark Aue, the CEO

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