Digital New Zealand launches Make it Digital

Digital New Zealand launches Make it Digital website, a one stop shop to help people create digital content.

Says Digital New Zealand’s project manager, Andy Neale, “In a small country with big ideas, we need to create and digitise more New Zealand content so we can stay digitally connected to our own stories, creations, knowledge and culture. Digital New Zealand has just made this easier, by launching the Make it Digital website”.

Make it Digital is an interactive website, designed to get New Zealand’s digital community asking questions, sharing advice, and making suggestions about the content they’d like to see available on the web.

The website has two main objectives:

First, Digital New Zealand is seeking to help those individuals and organisations that are making new digital content and digitising physical items. Comprehensive guidelines are available on the website, supported with a Question and Answer forum where people can ask questions and help others by sharing their own knowledge and expertise.

Second, Digital New Zealand is giving New Zealanders a place to share their ideas for new digital content the country needs. The voting section on the Make it Digital website is a place where people can post their ideas for new content, and support others’ ideas by voting them up or commenting on them.

“We have already seen some really interesting ideas surfacing in the voting section, such as digitising the ‘Ears’ children’s radio programme and back issues of the music magazine ‘Rip It Up’”, says Andy Neale.

"The Library and Information Advisory Commission (LIAC) welcomes the launch of Digital New Zealand’s Make it Digital website. Digital New Zealand is bringing together organisations both public and private from across New Zealand in a collaboration, which will ensure that more of New Zealand’s digital memory is accessible to New Zealanders online. Make it Digital is an important step in the realisation of LIAC’s vision of a collaborative digital NZ." Brian Pauling, Chair, LIAC

Visit Make it Digital http://makeit.digitalnz.org

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