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• What is digital equity?
• What is the plan to achieve digital equity for all New Zealanders?
• How big is the digital divide?

“A digitally included person is someone who has access to affordable and accessible digital devices and services at a time and place convenient to them, as well as the motivation, skills, and trust to use the internet to pursue and realise meaningful social and economic outcomes.”

Read more about Digital Equity in this Industry Innovation Article published by Health Informatics NZ.

You can also watch a webinar that explored the concept of digital equity and inclusion, with panellists addressing the four key challenges of access, skills, motivation and trust and how they apply from a range of perspectives including culture, disability and gender/ sexual orientation.

Speakers also discussed the foundations required to achieve digital equity and what role we as individuals can play in creating the shift needed to focus on equity. 

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