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Executive Director's Report to Council 01/02/02

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Report Adopted by the Council Meeting of 01 February 2002

1. ACTION ITEMS ARISING FROM DECEMBER COUNCIL MEETING

  • Internet Industry Forum (November 29-20 2001)

Final budget figures are now available (attached). The final cost was $21810. The Admin Committee approved an extra expenditure of $3000 for advertising, and, as flagged at the December Council Meeting, I propose to transfer the actual cost from the Rebranding budget as we effectively 'launched' the new brand with this advertising (more on Rebranding below). This brings the expenditure to $19172. Please note all figures GST exclusive as per budget. Given that the budget was originally set for a one day event I believe that the figures are satisfactory.

Follow-up :

a. The Forum gave solid endorsement for InternetNZ to move the Internet Code of Practice (ICoP) forward, and Council indicated at the December meeting that they wished a full 'de-brief' in order to establish exactly how to proceed. The debrief has not occurred yet, but a Budget item for both an ICoP Project and for an ICoP Working Group/Task Force have been included for consideration at the Strategic Planning Session.

b. Before Christmas I requested copies of all Speaker's presentations and html'd them for the website. These are available from the Forum Agenda, linked from the top page of the site.

c. My next task is to prepare a summary paper.

  • .maori.nz Proposal

As directed at the last Council meeting I took on this role. After further consultation with the President of Te Whanau Ipurangi-NZ Maori Internet Society I issued an RFD on December 11. The Straw Poll is due to be held from 22 February.

  • Budgets - received budget requests from Chairs and Convenors and created the draft Pre-Budget for consideration of Admin Committee on January 18. The first half of the Pre-Budget was based on the current Budget, and the second half on current Budget less .nz expenses. A final draft Pre-Budget is being submitted by Admin Committee to this meeting.

  • Elections - the Office ran the Council By-Election in December. Issues which arose over the communications process have been sorted out, and we await the final description of the preferential voting process from the Admin Committee Chair so that we can create a formal specification to make the final amendments to the software (the ad hoc process this time meant the votes had to be hand counted).

  • November Financials - as we were without a Treasurer when these were completed (attached) , I circulated them to Council on December 17 and placed them on the website under my area. I'm happy to deal with any questions in the Financial section of the Agenda.

2. REBRANDING

This exercise is nearing completion, the primary outstanding job is the new website graphics which are being done by Fruitful at a cost of $1200. This is covered under "launch" in the budget (attached) even though it was originally to be assigned to normal website expenses. However, as I have trimmed expenditure wherever possible without loosing a professional outcome, the budget is well under-spent at this stage, so there is easily room to place this cost here.

Budget Summary:

Expenditure to date

28017.41

Budget allocation

49200.00

Remainder

21182.59

"To Do" Total

13125.24



Surplus (Deficit)

8057.35

I'd like to note that Fruitful Communications has put in a lot of work over and above that which we have been charged for as Rob took on board the budget limitations we had. According to him, he has also really enjoyed the whole process!

3. UPCOMING

  • I am speaking at the NetSafety Conference in which will be held in Auckland Feb 10-12. My topic is Internet Infrastructure and I have been asked to focus on the ICoP.

  • I have accepted an invitation to Chair a two-day "Intranet Summit" run by International Research at Te Papa in April. As a side-bar we were asked if we wished to "sponsor" this event, and after consultation with the Admin Committee we are doing so. In this context sponsorship means they add our logo to brochures and advertising and we do a mail-out invitation to our members; in return we receive (apart from the free publicity) 10% discount for members who wish to attend and two free tickets.

  • Further communication resulted in an invitation to sponsor, on the same terms as above, an " e-Law Conference" to be held in Auckland in April. Given that this means that there are two events in April, one in Wellington and one in Auckland, for which we have two free tickets each, I RECOMMEND :

THAT Council advise members that the tickets exist, inviting them to send email expressions of interest, and that a draw be held to choose the winners of the free tickets.

  • I have made bookings for APTLD/APRICOT should Council approve the expenditure.

Sue Leader
Executive Director
InternetNZ

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Last updated 27 January 2002

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