This half-day session builds upon a simple thought experiment: Aotearoa wakes up one day disconnected from the Internet, and the rest of the world, yet all the while local communications infrastructure - from cell towers, to datacentres and fibre networks - remain unscathed.
What could (or couldn’t) we do with what we have? What of our current network and communications infrastructure, our most used sites and services, would continue to function if we were cut off from the rest of human civilisation?
Join us in a playful lab environment helping build the first ‘map’ of what our digital experience would look like if it was just us - from healthcare, to education, banking and the big socials. In doing so, we’ll get a sense of just how infrastructurally independent and resilient we are as a nation.
Participants will learn how to use network probing and website analysis tools to pull websites and networks apart, looking under the hood at just how much of our digital reality is hosted overseas.
This is a team effort, with no prior knowledge required. Participants should bring a laptop.
