InternetNZ releases RFP for Broadband Strategy research
InternetNZ has today released a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a scene-setting consulting report to assess broadband strategy options for New Zealand. The RFP document can be accessed at www.internetnz.net.nz.
InternetNZ Executive Director Keith Davidson says announcements from political parties have spurred considerable public debate about how best to achieve a much higher level of broadband penetration for business and consumers, both urban and rural. Read more
Banking industry takes on board Code of Practice concerns
The New Zealand banking industry has revised its Code of Banking Practice following an in-depth period of consultation with InternetNZ and advocacy group Consumer NZ.
“This is a significant win for people who use Internet banking services,” says InternetNZ’s Deputy Executive Director Jordan Carter.
The new Code, prepared by the New Zealand Bankers Association, comes into effect on 1 July 2008. Read more
InternetNZ welcomes multilingual domain names and easier rules for new TLDs
InternetNZ today welcomed two significant decisions announced at a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) which has just concluded in Paris, France.
In what amounts to a major opening of the Internet’s domain name system, ICANN has announced two major changes, InternetNZ’s Deputy Executive Director Jordan Carter said this morning.
First, the process for creating new global Top Level Domains is to be opened, allowing for easier creation of new domains (like the existing .com or .org names). The current twenty-one gTLDs, as well as country code domains like .nz, will face more competition, and Internet users will have more choices. Read more
The Browser - May 2008
The latest issue of InternetNZ’s monthly newsletter The Browser is now available online.
You can download a PDF version at the following link:
http://www.internetnz.net.nz/media/browser/
Impact 08 Seminar – Agriculture
ICTs have a wide-ranging application in New Zealand’s rural sector and are key to unlocking greater farm productivity according to a trio of technology / rural sector experts who spoke at the third of seven Impact 08 seminars in mid-June.
The seminar was held at five universities nationwide via the high-speed Access Grid, and examined to what extent global positioning systems, RFID and rural broadband are transforming farming.
The first speaker was David Walker, diary farm owner and rural market manager at Telecom’s IT arm Gen-i. He maintains that Internet technologies, particularly rural broadband delivered via ADSL, satellite and wireless, can drive ‘real productivity gains’. Read more
InternetNZ announces major investment in Hector’s World
InternetNZ is to provide up to $200,000 in funding for the ongoing development of Hector’s World™, a world-leading cybersafety resource for young children. Hector’s World is produced by Hector’s World Limited (HWL), an innovative social entrepreneurship venture and charitable subsidiary of New Zealand’s cybersafety organisation NetSafe.
Hector’s World teaches young children cybersafety as they first experience the Internet, by engaging them with free online animated stories, puzzles and cybersafety buttons. This is coupled with educationally appropriate parent and teacher resources. Read more
InternetNZ appoints Paul Swain as Chair of Executive Board
InternetNZ is pleased to announce it has appointed Paul Swain as Chair of the Society’s newly-established Executive Board.
The InternetNZ Executive Board provides governance to the Executive Director’s office, and reports to the InternetNZ Council.
Swain will head the five-person board of directors, established as part of a structural review of InternetNZ. The board will administer the policy and advocacy arm of InternetNZ. Read more