Looks like Tohatoha have negotiated a funding extension with InternetNZ, which will keep the lights on until June:

https://www.tohatoha.org.nz/2023/03/internetnz-and-tohatoha-announce-funding-agreement/

#Tohatoha #InternetNZ #Aotearoa #NZ

@joshua_drummond @lightweight

* Connecting the Clouds - the Internet in New Zealand *

"1840: S.E Grimstone became the first Postmaster of New Zealand. His payment for service was 20 percent of postal receipts
..."

Through to 2007

#internet #InternetNZ #NZHistory #LongRead

https://www.nethistory.co.nz/Internet_in_New_Zealand_Timeline/

"I may not have seen myself as an old, white man back then, but the resemblance is unavoidable today. If I have any perspective to share from getting older it's that privilege is easy to be oblivious to when you have it, a corolloary of which is that it's easy to overlook repression when you're not the victim of it. A better person would have looked for it. I did not."

Wise words from Joe Abley on the #Internetnz systemic racism report.

@lawgeeknz @jwp
Report on #InternetNZ and Systemic or Institutional #Racism is online at
https://internetnz.nz/assets/Archives/Internet-NZ-Independent-review-Report-FINAL-VERSION-v2.pdf

@jwp you mean #SystemicRacism #InternetNZ #OnlineHarms 🤓🫣😀