Tag: Internet
Pacific nations gradually embracing Elon Musk’s Starlink
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Broadband satellite service provider Starlink is now being used in the Pacific but not always legally, for now.
In Vanuatu,...
NZ’s Sky TV plans to outsource 200 jobs to India, Philippines
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand pay-TV company Sky TV plans to cut some jobs in the country as it outsources roles to India and the...
Tokelau declares 2023 elections result in spite of comms problems
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
The government of Tokelau has declared the results of the 2023 national general elections.
Voting took place on all three...
Owen Wilkes, the intellect behind New Zealand’s anti-nuclear stance
A new book about one of New Zealand's foremost peace activists offers insight into Owen Wilkes, the man described as the intellect behind New...
An entire Pacific country will upload itself to the metaverse. It’s...
ANALYSIS: By Nick Kelly, Queensland University of Technology and Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology
The Pacific nation of Tuvalu is planning to create a...
Huawei wins US$66m contract for expanding Solomons telecom network
RNZ Pacific
The Solomon Islands government has secured a US$66 million (NZ$106 million) loan from China for tech giant Huawei to expand the country's telecommunications...
Pacific students’ education ‘hit harder by pandemic’, say ERO educators
RNZ News
New research shows the pandemic has hit Pacific students harder than others, but many schools are successfully addressing the problem, an educational leader...
How to make sense of white supremacy and settler colonialism for...
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala
PART 2: WS storytelling in more detail
In part one of my article on White Supremacy (WS), I articulated some of the...
NZ police had no dedicated team to scan internet before mosque...
By Phil Pennington, RNZ News reporter
It took seven months for the New Zealand police to set up their first team for scanning the internet...
RSF condemns Myanmar’s military junta for ‘eliminating’ independent media
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for the restoration of media pluralism and unrestricted internet access in Myanmar, where the military,...
SAFEnet concerned Jakarta’s virtual police unit may create ‘Orwellian state’
Asia Pacific Report
The Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) – an institution concerned with freedom of expression in the digital world – has...
Solomons to ban Facebook but claims ‘media freedom to remain’
By Georgina Kekea in Honiara
The Solomon Islands cabinet has agreed to ban the world’s biggest social networking platform Facebook in the country.
The submission for...
Media under strain in Melanesia during challenging era
By RNZ Pacific
Hostile media environments pose growing challenges to Melanesia's democracies, according to a new edition of the Pacific Journalism Review.
With its first special...
Mong Palatino: Cyber trolling targets opposition against Duterte’s Terror Bill
COMMENT: By Mong Palatino in Manila
The proliferation of fake Facebook accounts in the Philippines is meant to derail the growing public opposition against the...
Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules
By Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie in Jakarta
A panel of judges at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by civil...
Free speech? No it’s about bigots who seek the right to...
Professor Paul Spoonley spoke about hate speech, political discourse and religious diversity in the wake of the 15 March 2019 Mosque Massacre in a...
Ethics needed in computing and tech to stop ‘robber barons’, says...
By Michael Andrew
Social media and tech industries have been replicating the ugliest aspects of capitalism from the 1800s, according to an AUT computer science...
Papua free media advocate files UN ‘blackout’ plea, targeted by hacker
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
A West Papuan journalist, editor and media freedom advocate has lodged a protest to the United Nations about Indonesia’s internet blackout...
Herald paywall could turn readers to rival Stuff, warns AUT lecturer
By RNZ News
The New Zealand Herald’s new premium paywall could turn readers to digital competitor Stuff, warns Auckland University of Technology communication studies lecturer Dr...
Bob Howarth: Role of journalism in developing and protecting democracy
COMMENT: By Bob Howarth in Dili
Today, World Press Freedom Day, is being celebrated in all democratic parts of the world. And Timor-Leste has much...
Vietnamese blogger critic missing and feared ‘kidnapped’ in Bangkok
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Thai authorities to shed all possible light on the disappearance of Truong Duy...
Tonga’s communications blackout ‘a problem out of their control’
By Philip Cass and Kalino Latu
Tonga's abrupt communications blackout may last up to two weeks before the fibre optic submarine cable restores the internet...