● Claims of ‘internet piracy’ are unfounded, says international copyright lawyer Claims that the National Library’s recently announced plan to send 600,000 books overseas to be digitised is equivalent to ‘internet piracy’ are unfounded, says a group of New Zealand civil society organisations supportive of the initiative. In a statement from the Department of Internal...
Tohatoha partners with SMAT to curb the flow of harmful misinformation in NZ SMAT founder Emmi Bevensee to join Tohatoha as Chief Technology Officer Non-profit group Tohatoha officially launched a new initiative today that aims to educate people to help prevent the spread of disinformation about COVID-19, combat hate speech and address conspiracy theories that...
Tohatoha’s oral evidence to the Justice Committee outlines genuine threats to New Zealand’s democratic processes from ‘malicious actors’ Tohatoha CEO Mandy Henk and Emmi Bevensee, developer of the Social Media Analysis Toolkit (SMAT), have presented oral evidence to the Justice Committee at NZ Parliament that shows misinformation from ‘malicious actors’ originating on fringe websites and...
Submission to the Justice Committee – April 2021 Introduction We are Tohatoha Aotearoa Commons, a nonprofit incorporated society working to advance a just and equitable digital world, together with SMAT (for “Social Media Analysis Toolkit”) , an allied project creating open source tools for the analysis of cross-platform social media trends. Our organisations share a...
Non-profit seeks book title recommendations and funding via PledgeMe As non-profit group Tohatoha rolls out its new campaign to tackle online misinformation with The Glass Room exhibition this week, the organisation is also calling for funding support for a drive to give school libraries books to educate students on this challenging topic. The internationally renowned...
Tohatoha and InternetNZ to bring ‘The Glass Room’ to Kiwi schools and libraries A globally successful public exhibition that explores how social media and the Internet have changed the way we interact with information online is set to visit New Zealand for the first time, with support from non-profit groups Tohatoha and InternetNZ. Called The...
Tohatoha pivots its strategic direction for 2020 to focus on digital harms and risks AUCKLAND, 19 August 2020 – New Zealand non-profit Tohatoha announced a bold new strategic direction today, expanding the focus of its programme to prioritise education to prevent the spread of disinformation and misinformation online, build community understanding of the risks and...
by Dr Andrew Chen – Data flows around the world as computers trade in 0s and 1s, silently making decisions that affect all of us, every day. Meanwhile, we humans shout louder than ever before, spreading news and opinions through social media, polarising society and pitting ourselves against each other. What are the quiet, hidden...
As part of Open Publishing Fest 2020, Tohatoha is proud to bring you this online event… Beyond Diversity: Justice in Open Communities REGISTER NOW Diversity has long been a goal for open projects, but too often we’ve been unsuccessful in building diverse communities. Maybe we’ve been aiming for the wrong thing. What if we decided...
Tohatoha launches campaign to change the way scholarship and science is shared in NZ Taxpayer funded research that could be improving the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders is being locked behind paywalls due to a profit-focused approach to academic publishing, says open access advocacy group Tohatoha NZ. This viewpoint, discussed at length in a...
