New Zealand

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: UFB, RBI, MBSF, RCU, Marae and Remote Users funding

Creates a reuse pipeline that converts retired electronics into refurbished devices for schools and community organizations, reducing device-access barriers while also diverting usable technology from the waste stream.

Activities and approach: Collect retired IT; secure handling and data destruction; test, refurbish and rehome computers, laptops, smartphones and tablets; accept recipient applications; community partnerships and technology donations

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Broadband, Wi-Fi and digital hub capability at marae

Provides grant-funded broadband, Wi-Fi hardware and technical support to culturally important community hubs, addressing geographic and Indigenous connectivity disparities.

Activities and approach: Fastest available broadband; Wi-Fi; videoconferencing; technical support.

Closes mobile-coverage gaps on transport corridors, tourism locations and rural areas that commercial operators would not otherwise prioritize.

Activities and approach: Mobile towers; 4G coverage; shared infrastructure.

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Fiber deployment to health centres

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Fiber connectivity to public libraries

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Fiber deployment to schools

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Fiber deployment to rural hospitals

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: High-speed rural broadband expansion

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Fast wireless broadband

Targets the hardest-to-connect households after mainstream programs, first through network extensions and then installation grants where coverage still cannot be provided.

Activities and approach: Network extensions; satellite/fixed wireless solutions; installation grants up to NZ$2,000.

Targets rural locations outside the urban fiber footprint with improved fixed-wireless and other broadband infrastructure.

Activities and approach: Wireless broadband; rural towers; backhaul; targeted rural coverage.

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Capacity upgrades where demand outgrew earlier rural networks

Converts retired corporate devices into funding for new student laptops, reducing device-access barriers while supporting circular technology reuse.

Activities and approach: Corporate device resale; purchase and distribution of new laptops to schools and students

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Needs assessment; digital skills; safe online use; connectivity trials

Massively expanded access to high-speed fiber, including progressively smaller communities that were less commercially attractive to serve.

Activities and approach: Fiber-to-the-premises; wholesale open-access networks.