Topic: Kete and the Aotearoa Peoples Network
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Kete has been selected as the community repository product for each of the partnering libraries in the Aotearoa Peoples Network.
About Aotearoa People's Network (APN)
The Aotearoa People's Network is about providing free access to broadband internet services in public libraries so that all New Zealanders can benefit from creating, accessing and experiencing digital content.
It is funded by the Community Partnership Fund of the New Zealand's Digital Strategy and by other government funding through the National Library of New Zealand.
The topmost guiding principle for the People's Network is that: "New Zealanders will have free and facilitated access to the internet, digital tools and services and be able to deposit content into community and national repositories".
Kete has been selected as the community repository product for each of the partnering libraries.
Big boost for Aotearoa People's Network welcomed
The Minister for National Library , yesterday announced extra funding as part of the Digital Strategy 2.0. This will extend the Aotearoa Peoles Network service into a total of 130 libraries and up to 10 marae, as well as creating 30 digital ketes for community-created content, over the next three years. [Media Release]
The Aotearoa People's Network makes libraries hubs of digital activity, allowing both internet-savvy users and those who are less familiar with the online world an opportunity to join in. The digital ketes will enable people to bring their content into libraries, digitise it and save it securely, as well as providing a space to save digital content they have created online.
