InternetNZ awards funding for legal research projects
Media release – 19 September 2012
InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) is pleased to announce that it has awarded over $53,000 of community funding in
its Policy and Legal Funding Round.
Funding recipients are James Mahuta-Coyle, Richard Best and Joy Liddicoat, with the following three projects being
funded:
Jurisdictional Limits of New Zealand Privacy Law in the Cloud – James Mahuta-Coyle
This project will produce a report that attempts to map the existing jurisdictional limits of the New Zealand Privacy
Act 1993, considers policy objectives behind regulating privacy-related aspects of the infrastructure-as-a-service
market, and proposes alternatives for privacy law change.
Online Participation and the Law of Consultation – Richard Best
This project will involve researching and synthesising case law on administrative law consultation principles in online
and offline contexts. It will include a series of case studies, where online consultation/collaboration has been
deployed to positive effect.
Developing a New Zealand Internet Freedom Index – Joy Liddicoat
There are few tools by which the local Internet community can measure the state of their Internet freedom. There is also
a lack of adequate tools for prompting wider debate and improving awareness of the importance of an open and
uncaptureable Internet. This project aims to address these gaps by developing an Internet Freedom Index suitable for the
New Zealand context.
The focus of InternetNZ’s Policy and Legal Funding Round was on Internet-related public-policy and legal research
projects. It was held between July and September 2012.
Chief Executive Vikram Kumar says, “Community funding is a way for InternetNZ to recognise and back the best ideas from
the community. We are very pleased to be able to fund good community ideas to deliver benefits for the community from
protecting and promoting the Internet.”
Once the research projects have been completed, InternetNZ will co-ordinate a workshop in which the funding recipients
will present the results of their work.
Further details are available at www.internetnz.net.nz/policyfunding.
About InternetNZ
InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) is the non-profit, open membership organisation dedicated to protecting and
promoting the Internet in New Zealand and fostering a coordinated, cooperative approach to its ongoing development.