2020 Communications Trust: Celebrating 10 Years of Community ICT Development

Contact 2020

Click Here to view the address delivered by Hon Luamanuvao Winnie Laben - Minister for the Community & Voluntary Sector

Click Here to view the keynote speech delivered by Dr Michael Gurstein - Director for the Center for Community Informatics Research, Training & Development in Vancouver, Canada.

Click Here to view the address delivered by Chair of the 2020 Communications Trust - Don Hollander

The following are a series of short videoclips
recorded at the 2020 Anniversary event

Click each photo to view the relevant video

Alan Gordan
Whanau Net

Whanau Net provides high-speed wireless connectivity for patients and their families at the Mary Potter Hospice in Wellington. Alan Gordon is a member of the Mary Potter Hospice staff.

Ashley Blair
Net Day

NetDay was a program that coordinate community volunteers to wire and connect schools to the Internet. It ran at a time before the New Zealand Government saw value in ICT in education. NetDay proved to both officials and politicians that ICT was essential to the education of our children.

Jeremy Edwards
Living Heritage

Living Heritage is a bilingual web space the hosts student research into items of local heritage interest. Jeremy Edwards is the Principal of Northland School in Wellington, one of the program's participants.

Toni Kahu
Computers in Homes

The Computers in Homes program works through schools to provide computing and Internet access into children's homes. It focuses on provided training and support to the parents who, in turn, can support their children. Toni Kahu was one of the first participants in this program in 1999.

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