text: After the early hope that the internet would strengthen democracies, digital divides, fake news, political manipulation and polarisation are just some of today's prominent concerns. Can that early hope be realised?
  Trust Democracy will use the anonymised 'findings' of this workshop to seed further ‘discussions’ about democracy, including via https://pol.is, a mass participation platform famously used by vTaiwan. Findings will also be submitted to the Public Service Commission as it prepares the NZ government’s next National Action Plan under the Open Government Partnership - see https://ogp.org.nz/.
  Trust Democracy, a new not-for-profit, wants to promote, initiate and participate in an ongoing public dialogue about the state of democracy in NZ. It wants to understand how people understand and value democracy in NZ and how they believe it could be improved.
  The Open Government Partnership promotes engagement between government, civil society and the private sector. The New Zealand government is implementing its 2018-2021 open government commitments and will soon start work to collaborate with the public to develop its 2021-2023 programme... Read More →
  I've been in the deliberative democracy bizz for 18 years. I worked on some major nation-wide projects that have involved hundreds of people grappling with really complex and often controversial topics using deliberation and dialogue as ways to reach common ground.
  I serve on the Committee of Trust Democracy, a new not-for-profit that focuses on the health of Aotearoa New Zealand’s democracy and how to strengthen it. I am also one of two partners in a consultancy called Public Engagement Projects. We have a track record of innovative and... Read More →
  Interested in the whole array of Internet Governance issues. Particularly following these current debates:- Terrorist and violent extremist content-copyright reform- network neutrality- economic gains from Internet use- Internet governance reform
  Andrew is the Outreach and Engagement Director and leads the Community, Events and Communications teams at InternetNZ. He has 15 years experience working managing relationships, messages and issues across the internet, telco and tech sectors. What he loves about this job is getting... Read More →
  This panel will examine the expansion of surveillance via technology in conjunction with the human rights issues that such surveillance must raise. With clear questions about justice, differential impact, and who is more likely to be surveilled, we touch on privacy, access, inclusion, and power.
  Thomas is a fan of technology, civil liberties, and a decent, democratic society. He wants to help us realise the benefits of the first two to better enable the third, while minimising disadvantages and negative side-effects. Thomas is the chairperson of the NZ Council for Civil... Read More →