{"id":171,"date":"2009-09-16T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-09-16T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T09:53:00","slug":"in-praise-of-the-aotearoa-peoples-network-kaharoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/in-praise-of-the-aotearoa-peoples-network-kaharoa\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of the Aotearoa People’s Network Kaharoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I went on holiday with my family, a trip which involved two days driving to our destination. Somewhere in the middle of the second day driving we stopped in a place called Huntly, which was small enough that I’d never heard of it before, to visit a pharmacy. And I noticed we were parked outside the library, and so I said to myself, “Self, I wonder if Huntly Library<\/a> has access to the Aotearoa People’s Network<\/a>?” And I opened my laptop, and lo, it did.<\/p>\n

So I used it to tell a bunch of friends that I had random access to the internet, and then we drove away again. Not very *useful* to me, in that particular instance – but still very high on the coolness scale.<\/p>\n

More usefully, when we reached our destination it turned out to be just up the road from Paihia Library<\/a> so every time we got the haven’t-been-on-the-internet-for-hours<\/i> jitters we could go and get a free fix.<\/p>\n

The APNK (also on Twitter<\/a>) is the kind of thing that’s so cool it’s hard to comprehend how cool it is. When I first heard about it my mind skittered off into wondering what the catch was. (There’s no catch.) When I next heard about it in a conference presentation (which I liveblogged<\/a> – scroll 3\/4 of the way down to 11:33am), I was blown away. Every now and then since, on my standing Twitter search alert for {“library” in New Zealand}, I see quotes like “I’m in library using free Internet.” or “In Taumarunui today using free network connection in the library, this is a great service for the area …” So being able to use it myself was just fantastic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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