No Tech Day is a national day of awareness and action to highlight digital inequity in Aotearoa.
No Tech Day
is a national day of awareness and action
to highlight digital inequity in Aotearoa.
Across Aotearoa, community organisations, whānau members and volunteers are doing the work of closing the digital divide.
They're helping someone set up an email account, showing an elder how to video call their grandkids, sitting alongside someone filling in a passport form on a borrowed phone, helping to spot a scam, reading a digital bill, locating a password, providing a laptop for a student or supporting a person to navigate a RealMe login.
Digital access is no longer optional. Everyday life increasingly assumes everyone has a device, access to the internet, and the skills and confidence to use them. Not everyone does.
Every time a government service or business celebrates how many people now use it online, there's a crew of people behind that number, up-skilling, supporting and funding that "success." Work that rarely gets seen. No Tech Day 2026 is a chance to bring that work to light, meet the people doing it and help fund it too.
no tech day t-shirts available now
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no tech day t-shirts available now 〰️
no tech day t-shirts available now
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no tech day t-shirts available now 〰️
Who is closing the
digital divide in
Aotearoa?
We'll be highlighting our digital champions every week in the lead up to No Tech Day. Know someone we should be shining a light on? Tell us!
Who is closing the digital divide in Aotearoa?
We'll be highlighting our digital champions every week in the lead up to No Tech Day on August 28th 2026 Know someone we should be shining a light on? Let us know.
Kevin Bicknell
Kevin Bicknell
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Leala Faleseuga
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Funds raised on No Tech Day go directly to community organisations working to close the digital divide, funding things like phones for people navigating systems that now require one, for example, to stay on the list for social housing. Or, laptops for senior high school students who need one for school. Funds can go towards digital support outreach to rest homes, paying for volunteers fuel and bikkies. They might buy a printer for a community hub, enabling forms to be printed and filled by someone close to home, rather than having to travel into the city.
We spread funding across the country. This year, DECA will match the profits from all No Tech Day t-shirt sales and donations, up to $3,000.
Last year, funds went to two organisations doing this work on the ground.
Fordlands Community Centre, Rotorua, is a community hub built around connection and support for whānau. Alongside a range of local programmes, the centre helps people access the services and systems they need, including the digital ones.
TechMate, Canterbury, offers a friendly, safe space to learn digital skills. Their staff and volunteers work alongside people one on one, helping them get comfortable with their own devices and use them with confidence.