June 2008 - Prime Minister applauds eDay for
diverting toxic waste from our landfills.
 As part of the World Environment Day week of celebrations, the 18th annual Green
Ribbon awards were presented to nine recipients last night in a special award ceremony
at Wellington Town Hall.
The Computer Access New Zealand Trust (CANZ), organiser of the national eDay
programme, was honoured as the recipient of the award for Community Action for the
Environment.
"The winners and all the nominees for these awards are providing leadership which is
inspiring and invaluable," said the Right Honourable Helen Clark, Prime Minister, who
attended the awards last night.
View the Full Press Release (PDF
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June 2008 - (Press Release): “e-Waste Eddie” helps schools kick the
e-waste habit
 As part of World Environment Day week, e-Waste Eddie the puppet and the eDay collection
truck will be visiting selected Wellington schools to raise awareness of the hazardous
nature of electronic waste (e-waste) when dumped in landfills.
e-Waste Eddie, puppeteer Tony Collis and the eDay collection truck are visiting schools
during World Environment Day week to educate schools and children about the dangers of
e-waste in landfills and the importance of IT energy conservation while at the same time
providing a method for schools to recycle their old computer equipment.
View Full Press Release (PDF - 83KB)
May 2008 - (Press Release): Education Minister makes virtual visits to two schools
The Minister of Education, the Hon Chris Carter, made a virtual visit to two schools today
without leaving his car. The Minister joined in an audioconference with students at New
Plymouth Girls’ High School and City Impact Church School in Browns Bay from his ministerial
car in Auckland while driving between two engagements to open school buildings.
View Full Press Release (PDF - 66KB)
April 2008 - (Press Release): Sustainable Management Fund helps
keep more toxic waste out of landfills
Environment Minister Trevor Mallard has announced a funding boost for eDay 2008 with $200,000
granted from the Government’s Sustainable Management Fund. The funding will help build eDay local
capacity, allowing the event to expand to more regions across the country, as well as aid in developing
local skills in handling e-waste.
View Full Press Release (PDF - 24KB)
April 2008 - ICT in Schools Report for 2007 Now Available
The 2007 ICT in Schools Report - a project run by the 2020 Communications Trust - is now available for download and review. Hard Copies of the Report are also available upon request.
The report presents a glowing picture of ICT infrastructure in schools with one computer for every four primary school students and one computer per three students in secondary schools. This is in striking contrast to the ratio of 1:18 in primary schools and 1:10 in secondary schools in 1995. Furthermore, most of these computers are connected to the Internet.
For full findings of the report - please view either the full, or summary versions of the report, available below.
View Full 2007 ICT in Schools Report (PDF - 5MB)
View Summary 2007 ICT in Schools Report (PDF - 4MB)
View Press Release (PDF - 111KB)
 2020 Partners with GKP and Rural Link in the Soloman Islands
Marovo Lagoon is a large Lagoon in the Western Province of the Solomon Islands.
It is very remote with few amenities and has about 10,000 people living in villages scattered around the idyllic setting.
The Marovo Lagoon Learning Net will build on the existing VSAT Distance Learning Centre in the Southern end of the lagoon and is created by the local villagers in an effort to learn how to manage their natural resources better
2020’s role will be to partner with GKP and Rural Link to provide a broadband link from Bekebeka to the centre of the lagoon at Batuna and equip a Telecentre in the Regional Training Centre
View the Full Executive Overview for this Project (PDF
- 350KB)
View the project Wiki here (External Link)
February 2008 - 2020 Communications Trust Annual Report for 2006-07
The 2020 Trust's Annual Report for the 2006-07 period is now available below.
View Annual Report (PDF - 1.08MB)
 November 2007 - 2020 Trust at the Government's Digital Strategy Refresh Summit
The 2020 Trust was well represented at the Government's Digital Strategy Refresh summit held in Auckland on the 27 & 28 of November.
The Trust's Laurence Zwimpfer gave the keynote (and only) address on the important of communities in the Digital future of the country. He spoke about the 10 P's - and how important Partnerships are - but emphasised the need for government to be Equal partners with the communities. He also noted the importance of moving from Pilots & Projects to Policy & Programs and called on the government to stop focusing on small scale concepts and instead focus on scaling up successes. He then called on businesses and foundations to put their attention into smaller scale pilots and projects - noting in particular InternetNZ's recently launched Digital Opportunities Foundation.
View Laurence Zwimpfer's Presentation
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October 2007 - eDay diverts nearly 300 tonnes of computer waste from NZ's landfills.
Kiwis cleared their homes of nearly 300 tonnes of old computer equipment and mobile phones this weekend in New Zealand's first national eDay.
The free drive-through event was held in Wellington, Invercargill, Wanaka, Alexandra, Queenstown, Wanganui, Rotorua, Whakatane, Tauranga and Hamilton from 9am to 3pm on Saturday 29 September, and on Auckland's North Shore and Manukau City from 10am to 2pm on Sunday 30 September.
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Celebrating 10 years of Community ICT Development
November 20th 2006 saw the National 2020 Communications Trust celebrate 10 years of active leadership in ICT development - both in New Zealand and the Pacific - Click Here for more.
Click Here to view the address delivered by Hon Luamanuvao Winnie Laben.
Click Here to view the keynote speech delivered by Dr Michael Gurstein.
Click Here to view the address delivered by 2020 Chairman - Don Hollander |
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