Digital First Census 2018 – what went wrong?

Guest blog: Accessibility and digital inclusion worker Bill Dashfield looks at the 2018 New Zealand Census, teases out reasons for the low response rate and suggests fixes. Ironically, the 2018 Census process prevented him from filling in his own census form online… ... Read more

50% of users asked if they used the internet were answering online.

Digital Divide worse than appears in latest report

Bill Dashfield looks at the latest World Internet Project report, which implies only 6% of New Zealanders don’t use the internet. However, non-representative sampling has skewed the results – the real percentage not using the internet is much higher. ... Read more

Di Daniels. Photo: David Haxton Kapiti News

Work in digital literacy honoured

NZ Herald: Di Daniels has been made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to digital literacy education, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Di led the 20/20 Trust’s Computers in Homes programme (currently suspended awaiting promised funding reinstatement) from small beginning to a national programme that helped 19,000 school families get online. ... Read more