Communication and information exchange has been vital to the people of New Zealand. Maori colonists, arriving from the Pacific, did not have a written language, instead they communicated over time and across space through artwork such as carving, weaving, music, and performance, and oral history.
Later with the influx of Europeans, other forms of information exchange emerged and new transport methods allowed messages to move freely both nationally and internationally. As the 19th century became the 20th, new technology gave the isolated country faster and more effective ways of communicating, opening it up to the rest of the world.
Discover how New Zealand communication technologies have changed from those based on art and oral histories to the vast network of information exchange available today.
