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...
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...
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...
Ryan Merkley, the CEO of Creative Commons HQ, is visiting Aotearoa from Canada in November to wish CCANZ a happy tenth birthday. While he’s here, we’re putting him to work! Please come to either or both of these free events in Auckland, and help us spread the word. Open Access in Aotearoa: Where are we...
We’re thrilled to welcome Mike Wolfe of the Authors Alliance to Aotearoa for a few days this month. Michael Wolfe is the Executive Director of Authors Alliance and a Copyright Research Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. He is a copyright attorney licensed to practice in California. The Authors Alliance is a...
Announcements and Week-Long Activities University of Canterbury and Lincoln University Video Release In a joint initiative with Lincoln University , the University of Canterbury will be launching 6 short videos each with a different researcher explaining how their research has benefited from being open access. They will be showcased on the main Library webpage. University...
Come along and hear from Kaitlin Thaney, Director of Mozilla Science Lab about the future of open research practice. We will also hear from people in universities, government, and the private sector who are active in open practice. As a inaugural director of the Mozilla Science Lab Kaitlin Thaney fosters an ongoing dialogue between the...
By Andrew Preston, co-founder of Publons A favourite ploy among unsolicited email advertising, that bane of the connected world, is the offer of instant degrees conferred by bogus institutions. Easy to get, sure, but unlikely to get you far in a competitive job market. In short, where you got your degree matters. Reputation is everything....
