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Executive Director's Report to Council May 1999

ISOCNZ Executive Director

NETDAY

  • $2000 sponsorship agreed after hard negotiations with NetDay organisers (and ongoing follow-up prodding)
  • Logo on web-site, A3 poster, newsletters (only one sighted), invitation to Formal launch, mention in every Media Release
  • How many Councillors helped on the day?

UNIFORUM

In the midst of Summit planning went to UniForum

  • Two tutorials attended on Encryption and Security
  • Did Plenary Session on ThinkQuest - well received and two potential judges came forward (Paul Reynolds and Ray Brownrigg), several potential coaches for next year, one request for video for Board of Trustees, excitement generated
  • Used part of Plenary session (and part of Jim's!) to promote Summit
  • Ran a BoF on Summit with Jim Higgins
  • Provided drinks and lunch for BoF for NZ NOG - only a few showed up
  • $2000 sponsorship went to provide Internet access for the five days
  • Won the Best Costume at theme dinner
  • Negotiated with President re: piggy-backing Conferences
  • RECOMMENDATION: That ISOCNZ:
  • continues to do one whole day of UniForum Conference
  • adds tutorial stream on the preceding two days
  • provides organisational assistance
  • encourages members to attend

PACFIS (PACIFIC FEDERATION OF INTERNET SOCIETIES)

Arising out of UNESCO project to train Internet Service Providers for the Pacific Islands

  • Presented workshop on "What is ISOCNZ"
  • Presented workshop with Jim on "Setting up an Internet Society at Your Place"
  • from this developed idea of PACFIS which ISOCNZ was asked to co-ordinate
  • Set up mailing list (courtesy of Actrix) - not in use yet
  • Constitution draft to be prepared (not started yet)
  • Also did one-on-one evaluation sessions for UNESCO with the 12 interns (not written up yet)
  • RECOMMENDATION : ISOCNZ act as facilitators for PACFIS
  • RECOMMENDATION : A Councillor/s volunteer to assist Executive Director in drafting Constitution
  • RECOMMENDATION : Council to determine ISOCNZ representation on PACFIS mailing list

ELECTION QUESTIONNAIRE

  • Very rough draft done by Executive Director, polished full version done by Frank
  • Draft to web-site for feedback - none received
  • Copies posted to all registered Political Parties with response date extended to 21 May because of Summit
  • Two replies in as of 20 May (National and Libertarianz)
  • Web-site next step

CODE OF PRACTICE

  • Updated CoP on web-site with Roger once he completed his consultations with industry
  • Letter to member ISP's inviting them to lead the way completed by Roger and awaiting printing by Executive Director (delayed by Summit)
  • Link on web-page for feedback with note about process of getting Cop to today's stage
  • Progress from other quarters as reported elsewhere by Chair

PUBLIC KEY INFRASTRUCTURE

  • NZCS took the initiative and called a planning meeting of stakeholders
  • Issues defined
  • Working group of five (?) set up with Executive Director as ISOCNZ (users!) representative
  • Mailing list for all participants
  • Planning for working papers for a "summit" on creating a framework

SUMMIT REPORT/OUTCOME; DELEGATION TO BERLIN

Five weeks intensive work was worth the effort, and even if ISOCNZhas to carry the entire cost as an ex-budgetary item, I believe the money was well spent. Quite apart from the reason for the exercise being so essential, we quite literally could not have bought the publicity we received for twice the cost.

I believe that the Summit met every criteria of success:

  • broad cross section of Internet Community attended
  • a strong consensus outcome was reached
  • partnerships forged (Ernst & Young, Ihug) or strengthened (NZCS, government)
  • validation of ISOCNZ and Domainz
  • profile raising huge (print, radio, TV, politicians, and web)
  • 13 new members
  • under budget

I wrote the NZ Position Paper and put it out for feedback - all of which was helpful, and emailed it to ICANN late on the 19 th . I requested speaking time for our representatives.

Future relationships arising out of the preparations for the Summit

  • Briefing all IT spokespeople - all indicated a wish to be "kept in the loop", and one requested that I do a cross-party briefing on the issues for all MP's with an interest in It/the Internet

RECOMMENDATION : that I follow up on this as this is a fertile ground for development

Now have a profile, and in some cases a working relationship, with a good part of the media - print, radio, and TV. I will continue to work on this with the Chair

NZCS has proven itself as a partner, as has UniForum. TUANZ is a semi-willing associate. Work with ISP's needs to be kept up as we got some real respect out of this.

Finances - final cost to ISOCNZ approximately $10,930.82 (GST inc) vs Budget of 19535.625 (inc - $17,365.00 exc) - assuming Domainz pays for PR @ $8855 (GST exc)

RECOMMENDATION : That Domainz be approached for a larger share of the costs

RECOMMENDATION : That the Budget for 1999-2000 include a provision for at least $20,000 ex-budgetary expenditure to cover unplannable events like this

'Rebranding' of ISOCNZ - this issue came up at the Summit and a straw poll gave almost unanimous support

  • RECOMMENDATION : That the Council investigate re-branding (not renaming) ISOCNZ

MEMBERSHIP:

  • Getting the database working properly has been a priority since February. Finding a competent Access designer/programmer has been a problem. In progress
  • I have got it working well enough to print Invoices (last run October 98) and update records and can report:
  • we have 146 members of whom 136 are still technically financial (the other ten are out of date because of late invoice run)
  • of these there are twelve corporate members (Platinum)- nine are financial and two more just out (for same reason as above) (Ihug, Waikato U, National Library, Oracle, Telecom, Auckland U, Netway, Victoria U, Microsoft, UniForum and Wellington City Council) and one new Bronze
  • 16 non- financial members have been purged from the system since the last invoice run
  • 32 members have joined since I started on August 12 1998.

OTHER:

  • a dozen press releases
  • regular web-site updates including creation of members-only area and re-writing pages as required
  • Majordomo "battles"
  • monitoring and forwardingfrom mailing lists, news groups, media on the net
  • email, phone, visitors, networking
  • attended International Women's Day Book Launch (NZ Stats) March 6 - outcome - lunch with Len Cook to discuss internet program at Stats NZ
  • attended UNESCO Joint Committees Meeting 19 March - main input was into Communication Strategies - the net, of course
  • Addressed NZCS Christchurch (March 25) and NZCS Dunedin (March 30) on Summit (leveraging off SI trip for BPW)

ACTIONS COMPLETED:

ACTION : Executive Director to get logo re-done in various formats

ACTION : Executive Director to write letter to Fellows advising them of responsibility to set up a Fellowship Panel to determine new Awardees.

NOT COMPLETED:

ACTION : Executive Director start planning first newsletter

ACTION : Executive Director check figures against a draft budget(E&R)

ACTION : Executive Director to circulate list of current moderators to Council.

Sue Leader
Executive Director

© 1999 The Internet Society of New Zealand
Last updated May 1999

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