Actions we advocate

· Provide ICT devices to lower income families and communities to meet their needs, rights and improve their quality of lives (Stainton Rogers, 2009). To meet their needs, they are supported to have new experiences. To meet their rights, they have rights to provision of assistance for their well-being, protection from being offended and participation to think about their care. Also, children have rights to find information freely in the form of media that they use (Children’s Commissioner, 2005).This relates to Article Thirteen of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. To improve their quality of lives, they are supported to use ICT.




· Children from both cultures of Māori and Pākehā are supported to use ICT in their lives. This is because the Treaty of Waitangi enabled an agreement between Māori and Pākehā for biculturalism in New Zealand (Duhn, 2008).






· Advocate libraries, zoos, art galleries and museums to provide tablets for young children and set up environments for children’s size.

references:

Duhn, I. (2008). Globalising childhood: Assembling the bicultural child in the New Zealand early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki. International Critical Childhood Policy Studies, 1(1), 82-105.

Stainton Rogers, W. (2009). Promoting better childhoods: Constructions of child concern. In M. Kehily (Ed.). An introduction to childhood studies (2nd ed). (p. 141-160). Maidenhead, United Kingdom: Open University Press-McGraw Hill.

Children’s Commissioner. (2005). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Hui whakatau i te mana o te tamaiti a te whakakotahitanga o nga whenua o te ao. Wellington, New Zealand: Office of the Children’s Commissioner.