Executive summary

New Zealand has an international reputation for being an early adopter of new technology. To confirm that this was the case, we conducted our first New Zealand Mobile Electronic Device Use Survey in 2013. We updated this survey early this year, to keep abreast of the pace of change and to continue monitoring emerging trends...

This is the latest report of the CCi Digital Futures Project.

This preliminary report is based upon a desktop search of apps (completed in two stages during Feb-June 2012), some extracts from the draft discussion paper From explanation to engagement: Application and use of social media to enhance local government performance (Anne Howard, ACELG-University of Canberra December 2011) and conclusions of the co-authors.

This release contains information on internet subscribers and their type of access connection, the type of user (i.e. business/household), the volume of data downloaded, the speed of internet connection and the location of the subscriber (by state or territory). Key points: Mobile wireless broadband connections (excluding mobile handsets) accounted for 47% of all internet connections...